The CCCNY opens its Summer Season with an exhibit of photographs by Cuban artist Gustavo Pérez, whose lens reveals an exploration of man’s search for meaning within his immediate environment, seen as a fragment of the universe. Behind each photograph, the artist emerges as an intuitive and passionate thinker, seeming to risk his own life for the sake of an image, walking a fine line between eternity and death. Taken in Cuba in 2005, these photographs reveal a world of despair, almost wishing for a glimmer of a better world. And, in each frame, a reflection of our own existential paradox.
After certain circumstances detained me in another life for quite some time,
I am able to share these images. They are part of the spirit of an era, of a country: Cuba, 2005.
Each photo aspires to tell a story, like a short film.
Twenty photographs marked by irony, tenderness, helplessness;
always with the wish that they could provide company for hope.
And within them, the passion of someone whose vision’s only claim, for years,
was to search for that which he could not find.
I am here. A wild animal cannot be caged.
—Gustavo Pérez
This art exhibit is part of our CreateNYC Language Access Series on Cuban History, Art, and Literature. The Q&A with the artist will be bilingual (English/Spanish).
REVELATION GALLERY
St. John’s in the Village Church
224 Waverly Place (at 11th St.), NYC
FREE ADMISSION
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Gustavo Pérez Fernández (Camagüey, 1962) Poet, filmmaker, and visual artist. His photography has been exhibited in Cuba, Italy, Belgium, and Portugal. His images have graced the book covers of many writers and have been included in numerous literature and art journals. His work has been profiled in the prestigious German journal of photography Schwarzweiss. Many of his photographs can be found in private collections in the U.S., Germany, Italy, Ireland, Portugal, and Belgium. This is his first exhibit in New York City.
This event is co-sponsored by Revelation Gallery at St. John’s in the Village Church, and is made possible, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and by the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
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