Explore the dynamic world of art through our collection of articles, images, and artist biographies. Each piece is meticulously curated to provide a deeper understanding of contemporary art and the visionaries behind them.
Sawubona: I See You invites viewers to embark on a journey through the rich visual and cultural landscape of South Africa, presenting an intimate and multifaceted portrait of South African life. The word "Sawubona," an everyday greeting in Zulu that means "I see you," offers a poignant lens through which to approach this exhibition. Here, "seeing" transcends the simple act of looking; it calls for an encounter, an acknowledgment of the stories, struggles, resilience, and beauty embedded within each piece.
“The Space in Between,” delves into the complex interplay of returning and belonging, capturing the essence of navigating between the past and the present. This exhibition explores the nuanced experience of coming back to familiar shores after a period of separation, where home is both a sanctuary and a landscape altered by time.
Kevin spoke with me today about his body of work. The resulting conversation was enlightening and confirmed my predisposition toward the artist and the sublime nature of his paintings.
Nudity, depictions of the obese eating, child labor, racial caricatures, the male gaze, in the painting “Circus III” Pablo has manufactured what could be deemed a virtual smorgasbord of offense. I spoke with the Chilean born artist of Uruguayan parents today about the piece and his intent in creating the work.
Cuban conceptual artist Rubén Torres Llorca sees the human experience for what it is, filled with love and loss, joy and suffering and most of all, temporary.
It's been incredibly well documented that Rubén Torres Llorca pulls no punches. He refuses to play "the game". ...that's not entirely true, he will play, but by his rules, on his court, and with his ball. Si te gustas bien, y si no, tambien, (If you like it fine, if not, that's fine too).
Andres Conde, a visual artist born in the vibrant city of Havana in 1968, embarked on an artistic odyssey shaped by displacement, political tumult, and an ever-evolving quest for creative expression. Uprooted from his Cuban roots as a child, Conde's journey traversed Havana, Madrid, New York, and eventually settled in Miami, infusing his art with a diverse spectrum of cultural influences.
Rituals are seductive, no matter how frightening they may be, and so is the best art. I've never resolved the contradiction between my attraction to the strange world of bullfighting and the fact that I was sickened by it. Bullfighting in fact became a metaphor for the world, a place where the primitive lays waste to our best efforts to be "civilized" and something or someone must always suffer but for no particular reason. And yet we cannot stop watching.
The discourse surrounding Stacy Conde's work often highlights her dedicated support for the artists she represents, yet there remains an underreported facet: her own prolific contributions as an artist. While she's celebrated for elevating diverse voices and nurturing artist’s careers, the narrative often overlooks Conde's significant endeavors as a creator in her own right. This article aims to unveil the multifaceted nature of Conde's work, shedding light on her dual roles as both a passionate advocate for artists and a talented creator.
The young Cuban artist living and working in Mexico is expanding, literally. While his entire body of work deals with memory, normally in the form of miniature momentos frozen in time and place, he has begun to paint larger works on the same theme. Duportai Garcia is a graduate of the esteemed La Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes, San Alejandro in Havana. His work has been shown in Havana, Miami, Paris and Los Angeles, as well as in the PAN Museum of Contemporary Art, Naples, Italy.
These three South American artists possess great technical skill and fertile imaginations. They are each deeply rooted in a sort of symbology and cultural iconography which crosses ethnological divisions. All three manage to maintain a graceful sense of aesthetic values while communicating an often blood soaked narrative. They are, individually, an incredibly rare find, unicorns even, and I am incredibly grateful to work them.
These are the desires of our community as expressed at The Wishing Tree during Allumer Natchez, November 19th - 21st, 2021. They have transcribed exactly as they were written, only removing names for privacy.
“Tokens of Memory : The Miniature Portrait Project” is a work in process. The exhibition, set to take place in 2023 at Conde Contemporary, will feature a massive collection of diminutive portraits by the young Cuban artist Danco Robert Duportai Garcia.
The title “Midnight in The Garden of Good and Evil” has been one I’ve always found profoundly evocative and imaginative, it asks you to consider what that place and time might look and feel like. Our exhibition, of the same name, was simply my interpretation of that glorious title.
Conde Contemporary presents a multi-sensory, immersive art exhibition titled “Midnight in The Garden of Good and Evil”, taking place this October 16th-18th at Conde Contemporary, 334 Main Street, Natchez, Mississippi.
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." ...and so here we find ourselves, in the midst of chaos, disease, uncertainty and ugliness. It's easy to get lost in it, the anger and despair of the gutter. Though, it is precisely times like these when looking at the stars is crucial.
Coral Gables based fine art gallery, Conde Contemporary, is relocating to Natchez, Mississippi. Stacy Conde, owner and director of the primarily Latin American gallery, acknowledges at first glance the move may seem counterintuitive.
The work of Pablo Santibáñez Servat is a magical synthesis of occidental and indigenous visuals intrinsic to the Americas. He often weaves ancient symbols with contemporary images as though no time has lapsed; he creates his own symbolic language, which seems to deny the very concept of time or at least the beginning and ending of eras, suggesting instead the coexistence of epochs or congruence of time.
"On a recent Thursday night, the Conde Contemporary Gallery on Miracle Mile held the opening for its new show, “Idols of the Tribe,” a collection of symbolic and magical realism works mostly by Cuban and Latin American painters and sculptors. If the gallery scene in the Gables is dead, no one bothered to tell the more than 400 people who came through the gallery that night."
