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Since December 3, 1979, Havana has been the main venue for the International Festival of New LatinAmerican Cinema, which has served as a launch pad for LatinAmerican cinematography and become one ofthe leading festivals of the region. Its the variety and creativity of films shown at the Havana Film Festivalevery year that attract thousands of visitors eager to experience Latin American cinema, meet its mostsignificant figures, attend collateral screenings and throw themselves into the frenzied comings and goingsof millions of Cuban moviegoers.
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VISUAL ARTS
La distancia de la realidad
Exhibition of photographs and audiovisuals byChinese artist Yang Fudong, one of the mostimportant and sought-after creators in hiscountry. The catalog for his exhibition at theEsteban Vicente Museum in Segovia, Spain,says that Fudong represents a generation ofAsian artists who are experiencing an obliquechange in the pattern of production anddevelopment in their countryThis isimportant in order to understand theconceptual evolvement of his workthe artistmakes use of film and video (very much in aEuropean vein) in his work to explore the vitaleffects that a new generation of urban youthexperiences in a country that is constantly andradically changing. For them, and, especiallyfor Fudong, the culture of the pastisrepositioned in a phantom-like manner intodays large neo-capitalist and ultra-technological cities that grow like sunspots.
Through 8 December / 2011Centro de Arte Contemporneo Wifredo Lam
Group exhibition of the avant-garde of Cubanart.
Throughout December / 2011Galera La Acacia
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Throughout December / 2011Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Edificio de Arte
Cubano)
Throughout December / 2011Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales
One of the most important Cuban artists today,Ren Francisco Rodrguez, National ArtsPrize-winner 2010, has brought togetherdrawings, paintings and sculptures, which, inthe words of the artist himself, deals withcertain obsessions, with the relationshipbetween eroticism and power, the new and theold, which is expressed in physical,psychological, subversive issues, when wereflect on sex as also having to do with thesubversive.
Cuban artists Teresa Snchez, Ins Garrido,Javier Martinez, Alexei Daz and TeresaCasanueva, and German artists KatrinGnther and Thomas Michel have teamed upin an exhibition that delves into the problems ofcommunication and understanding, and themanner of expressing oneself in such differentplaces as Havana and Berlin.
Viejo verde
Comunicacin Berln-Habana
Throughout December / 2011Galera Mariano. Casa de las Amricas
Agroup of paintings on amate paper, a typicalMexican production, whose millenary artisanalproduction achieves textures that allowinteresting effects.
Animalia: mito y realidad en la Antigedad
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The artist Rolando Vazquez has relied uponpieces which use elements that constitutesymbols for a large part of society to entice theviewer to manipulate images that have beenhallowed by tradition or history, and makethem question their own stereotypes
Throughout December / 2011Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Edificio de ArteUniversal)
Thirty-six pieces have been selected from theCondes de Lagunillas valuable collection ofancient art, which reproduce animal figuresfrom different times, cultures and styles usingdifferent techniques and mediums.
El amate mexicano en la ColeccinArte de Nuestra Amrica
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2 DEC 2011
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Mondrian en La Habana
The Cuban artist Carlos Quintana exhibits hiswork for the first time at the National Museumwith canvases of recent creation. Quintanaspaintings have visible traces of the informelmovement and abstract expressionism, with aparticularly expressive use of drawing andcolor.
To the often whimsical arrangement ofarchitectural elements that can be seen in thecity, the artist Alain Cabrera has imposed therationality of framing them with black lineswhich leads them to almost pure formsestablishing a rhythm of textures and qualitiesin the style of Pieter Mondrian.
Through January / 2012Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Edificio de Arte
Cubano
Throughout December / 2011Fototeca de Cuba
Through January / 2011Factora Habana
The Spanish artist Carlos Pazos has broughttogether videos and photographs whichdocument his view of the different ways of lifeof todays Cuban society.
Three exhibitions: Lagoglifos, by BrazilianEduardo Kac; Tetra Bric's, organized by theFestival of Video Art of Camagey; and works by Lorena Gutierrez and Silvio EnriqueCampos, winners of the Nuevos Medios deFactora Creative Scholarship, reaffirm the rolenew technologies play in expressingcontemporary sensitivity.
Sur Polar en La Habana
Throughout December / 2011Centro Hispano Americano de Cultura
Photographs , v ideo ar t , f i lms anddocumentaries about the mysterious andlargely unknownAntarctic continent.
rase de una fortuna
Through 25 January / 2011Galera Galiano
Photographer Laura Portilla delves into thepairs of opposites, real or apparentdichotomies, artificial diviison imposed by man... Eternal variations of the complementaryopposites of yin and yang.
Fonemas y morfemas
Throughout December / 2011Galera Habana
Exhibition by Yoan and Ivn Capote, two of themost sought-after names in todays Cuban art scene.

3 DEC 2011
Puentes
Throughout December / 2011Palacio Lombillo
Exhibition of nine large and medium-size oilpainting byAlejandro Tejeda, of whom the criticAntonio Seoane Fernndez has said; InPuentes, Alejandro Tejeda goes beyond...hispictorial impeccability un urban referents anddelves into...key aspects of mans existence.
De Jaimanitas al Alba
Vistas de la ciudad
Matta: Del arte al libro
Through 20 December / 2011Casa del ALBA
Throughout December / 2011Museo de Arte Colonial
Throughout December / 2011Galera Latinoamericana, Casa de las Amricas
The most recent exhibition by the artist JosRodrguez Fster with his usual explosion ofcolour and whimsical shapes. The artisthimself has confessed that the recurrent themein his work is very much influenced by Picasso,it is the joy of living...
City scenes--lithographs by European artistswho lived in Cuba during the colonial periodand who masterfully depicted the urbanlandscape.
Exhibition of book-objects made by the greatChilean painter Roberto Matta, donated to theCasa de lasAmericas.
Huellas
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Una magia descubierta
Plywood, papier mache, tree branches, waterpumps, hoses, PVC plastic pipes and foodscraps, among other materials, are used by theCuban sculptor Florencio Gelabert Soto, whonow lives in New York, for works that drawattention to the troubled relationship betweenman and the environment.
This exhibit by the designer Jorge RodriguezDiez (R10) explores the particular visual natureof 1950s advertisements from the US withpatterns and stereotypes that are still presentin the Cuban visual popular imaginary.
Works by Servando Cabrera Moreno from the 1950s, a little known creative stage of the artistthat is characterized by abstractionism and isevidently influenced by Picasso, Joan Mir andPaul Klee.
Throughout December / 2011Galera Villa Manuela
Throughout December / 2011Galera de la Biblioteca Pblica Rubn Martnez
Throughout December / 2011Museo Biblioteca Servando Cabrera Moreno

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La Trova sin Traba
La Tanda
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