Galería Casado Santapau presents ‘El Mapa del Silencio’, an exhibition by Cuban artist Alexandre Arrechea at National Fine Arts Museum of Havana, Cuba. The show will open on May 23, 2015 at 5pm. Read more below:
After ‘No Limits’ (Park Avenue, New York, 2013), the impressive urban scale group of sculptures, Alexandre Arrechea began a new project conceived specifically for the National Museum of Fine Arts, in which his interest of exploring the architectural space is displaced to an area of limited subjectivity.
From the viewpoint of intimist reflection, while observing the real world, the city, a determined neighborhood, a faded wall, the peculiar marine architecture or the exact point in which an idea or a pact are born, he focuses on what has not been said yet, on those things that are obliterated in the complex weft of the city. His proposal revealing what is hidden is precisely a map of silence.
With a group of six works comprising visual resources as varied as two formidable large format watercolors, one video-projection, one tapestry and the direct painting of a 25-meter mural on the wall of the transitory gallery, Arrechea leaves in us the conviction of being an artist in the splendor of his creative drive.
- Corina Matamoros, curator of El Mapa del Silencio