Art Criticism and Curatorship Awards Awarded in Cuba

The 2023 National Curatorial Prize was awarded to the individual exhibition "Like circles in water", by artist Felipe Dulzaides, with curator Yaniet Oviedo Matos, the National Council of Plastic Arts (CNAP) highlights today.

The exhibition closes a period of more than 30 years of work, in which Dulzaides created "hybrids that are like phrases, improvisations, poetry in movement," highlighted Luisa Marisy, president of the jury, during the award ceremony, at an event held in the CNAP headquarters, in this city.

In the Collective Exhibition section, curators Dannys Montes de Oca and Ercilia Argueyes won awards, with the work "Look at me mother", a project by Génesis Galerías de Arte that addresses African heritage and contemporary Cuban art.

This curatorship demonstrated the approach to the topic from activity, creativity and depth, although it is not intended to exhaust the topic of the African heritage in Cuba, nor its current and historical problems, Marisy stressed.

For its part, in the "Guy Pérez Cisneros" National Criticism Contest, a total of fourteen proposals belonging to ten authors were reviewed in both categories and the essay prize was awarded to "Criticism is not done by hearsay", by Luz Merino. Acosta.

The volume is the summary of an investigation by the author, based on years of work on the critical work of the Cuban intellectual Jorge Mañach, explained the essayist and critic Rafael Acosta de Arriba, president of the jury in this section.

Meanwhile, in the article category, “El decorum de los 70” by Hortensia Peramo Cabrera was awarded for addressing a little-studied era in the history of Cuban art from a different perspective, according to Acosta de Arriba.
The event was attended by Daneisy García, president of CNAP; Martha Ivis Sánchez, deputy director of the Cuban Fund for Cultural Assets; and Mary Pemjean, vice minister of Image and Space Arts and president of the National Museums Foundation of the Ministry of Culture of Venezuela.

The “Guy Pérez Cisneros” national criticism and curatorial competitions are organized annually in order to recognize the most outstanding authors and curatorial works, this time in the period between June 2022 and July 2023.

The CNAP carries out both contests with the objective of promoting the development and promotion of the visual arts, research on the processes of artistic transformation and evolution; considering it as the basis for the curatorial conception of any exhibition.