A.C.P.O.Z.T. (Afro-Cuban Party Orlando Zapata Tamayo)Landscape of discourses.
Glexis Novoa Vian grew up as an active part of the Cuban socialist process--with the moral responsibility to be “the new man” inspired by the mythical figure of Ernesto “Che” Guevara, he focused his artistic investigations on studying aesthetic patterns that represented the socialist system’s ideology. Educated in a society of scientific materialist ideology and versed in Marxism and Leninism, he learned the essence of their ideology. Later, in practice, with the influence of perestroika and the fall of the Berlin Wall, he was able to deconstruct his own history.
His intention is to synthesize in a "unique" form the diverse subliminal resources of manipulation by ideological, religious, political, or financial systems, which define the appearance of cities, creating a discourse of landscapes.
The meticulous drawings aim to seduce the spectator with panoramas of the marvelous-terrible and provoke reflections not so drastic within the global context. His work is inspired by the future as the irrefutable terrain of today's politicians', theologists', and ideologists' promises.
Glexis Novoa Vian grew up as an active part of the Cuban socialist process--with the moral responsibility to be “the new man” inspired by the mythical figure of Ernesto “Che” Guevara, he focused his artistic investigations on studying aesthetic patterns that represented the socialist system’s ideology. Educated in a society of scientific materialist ideology and versed in Marxism and Leninism, he learned the essence of their ideology. Later, in practice, with the influence of perestroika and the fall of the Berlin Wall, he was able to deconstruct his own history.
His intention is to synthesize in a "unique" form the diverse subliminal resources of manipulation by ideological, religious, political, or financial systems, which define the appearance of cities, creating a discourse of landscapes.
The meticulous drawings aim to seduce the spectator with panoramas of the marvelous-terrible and provoke reflections not so drastic within the global context. His work is inspired by the future as the irrefutable terrain of today's politicians', theologists', and ideologists' promises.
Glexis Novoa Vian is a Cuban-born visual artist living and working in Miami and Havana since 1995. His work have been exhibited internationally in numerous institutions including: Henry Street Settlement/Abrons Art Center, New York; Nassau County Museum, Roslyn Harbor, New York; Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico DF; El Museo del Barrio, New York; Instituto Tomie Ohtake,Sao Paulo, Brazil; Centro de Cultura Contemporania, Barcelona; Blaffer Gallery, University of Texas, Houston; Cheekwood Museum, Nashville, Tennessee; City Art Museum Ljublana, Ljublana, Slovenia; Bass Museum, Miami Beach; Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Massachusetts; The Bronx Museum, New York; Mexic-Art, Austin, Texas; Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta; Miami Art Central, Miami; The University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara; Fundación CAIXA, Palma de Mallorca; Centro de Arte Santa Mónica, Barcelona; Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables; Miami Art Museum, Miami; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana; Porin Taide Museo, Pori, Finland; Mucsarnok Museum, Budapest, Hungary; Palffy Palace, Vienna; Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas, Canary Islands; Pittsburgh Center for the Art, Pittsburgh; The Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana; Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, Ireland; Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina; Worcester Art Museum Worcester, Massachusetts; Locust Project Miami, Florida; Espacio Aglutinador, Havana; Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf, among others. Since 1987 he curates numerous exhibitions including Killing Time; a survey documentation of the Cuban performance Art of the 1980s (Exit Art, New York 2007). He was a recipient of The Cintas Fellowship Award, New York 2006.
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