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A Modernist Regime: The Cuban Contemporary Lens

Institution
Cranbrook Art Museum
Grant Cycle
Spring 2022
Amount
$75,000
Type of Grant
Exhibition Support
Website
cranbrookartmuseum.org ↗
Dujo Muebles, showroom at the Salon International du Mueble de Paris, 1967. Collection Laura Córdoba
Gonzalo Córdoba, Habana Lounge Chair, 1964, for Dujo Muebles. Mahogany and leather. Collection Cuban Modern. Photo: David Avilés
Gonzalo Córdoba, Armchair for Empresa de Producciones Varias (EMPROVA), 1970s. Mahogany and rattan. Collection Cuban Modern. Photo: Denis Guerra.
Clara Porset, Miguelito Armchair, 1960. Linden tree wood and leather. Collection Cuban Modern. Photo: David Avilés
Heriberto Duverger, María Teresa Muñiz Riva, and Reinaldo N. Togores, exhibition view of MueblePared (Furniture Wall), 1971. Collection Reinaldo N. Togores and María Teresa Muñiz Riva
Eva Björklund, Monster Chair, c. 1970. Plywood, foam, and fabric. Collection Cuban Modern. Photo: Claudia Monteagudo
Elana Serrano, Day of the heroic guerilla fighter, October 8, 1968. Color offset print, 21 ½ x 13 ¼ inches.
Sergio Baroni, Huge D’Acosta, and Vittorio Garatti, the Cuba Pavilion at the 1967 International and Universal Exposition (Expo 67), Montréal, Canada, 1967. Collection Archives de la Ville de Montréal, VM94. Photo: Armour Landry

Focused on the decades immediately following the Cuban Revolution (1959), A Modernist Regime: Cuban Mid-Century Modern Design presents a small but prolific cohort of artists, designers, and architects who responded to the demands of a newly centralized economy, including the material constraints imposed by ensuing embargoes, popular demands for more equitable access to goods, and initial excitement about the role modern design could play in shaping a new society.  This exhibition is the first museum presentation on Cuban mid-century design anchored by an under-acknowledged collection of furniture and furnishings, examples of which have not been exhibited off the island.

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