If I Lose Memory: Twenty Contemporary Cuban Artists

In this volume Corina Matamoros brings together some of the most outstanding creators of the Cuban contemporary artistic scene, with essays that reveal a sharp curatorial perspective. Emerging, for the most part, from shows organised at the National Museum of Fine Arts (Havana), these texts examine the personal poetics of the authors, while revealing the intense consonance that has existed between their brilliant artistic productions and the sustained and faithful welcome they have received in the collections of the National Museum, to which the author has dedicated her professional life. Creators such as Jose Toirac, Los Carpinteros, Lazaro Saavedra, Carlos Garaicoa, Abel Barroso, Aimee Garcia, Sandra Ramos, Kcho, Eduardo Ponjuan, Jose Manuel Fors, and Gustavo Perez Monzon, among others, are treated, according to the prologue by Dr. Juan Martinez, with vibrant prose, intelligence, and haiku economy. If I Lose Memory is an excellent addition to the corpus of literature on Cuban contemporary art. Text in English and Spanish. AUTHOR: Corina Matamoros is the curator of the Collection of Contemporary Cuban Art of the National Museum of Fine Arts, and has published the volumes Mirada de curador (Letras Cubanas, 2009); Raul Martinez. La gran familia (Vanguardia Cubana, 2012); Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. 100 anos (MNBA, 2015): and Rocio Garcia's Confessions. Interview and Most Recent Series (Turner, 2016). He also has ten books in collaboration with other authors and more than 40 texts on art and museology. SELLING POINTS: This book would testify to the museological priority over contemporary art boldly carried by the largest national thesaurus of plastic arts in Cuba Corina Matamoros has curated 72% of the exhibitions generated by the essays of this editorial project for the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, and all the creators belong to its collections This volume brings together some of the most outstanding creators of the Cuban contemporary artistic scene, with essays that reveal a sharp curatorial perspective 50 colour, 20 b/w images