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11-30-2004, 11:27 PM
Cuban Art in New Zealand
by Peter Calder | New Zealand Herald
Tue November 30, 2004
A chance meeting in Manhattan led to the establishment of an Auckland
gallery devoted exclusively to Cuban art.
New Zealander David Walker...was invited by the artist [Rigoberto MenaSantana] to stay with him in Havana.
On that visit, and on a return trip to the 2000 Havana Biennale, he met
dozens of gallery directors and curators, many of whom expressed regret that
there was no outlet in Australia devoted to the work of artists from Cuba.
His response was to open the Havana Gallery, which celebrates its first
birthday on Sunday with a sale running until Christmas Eve.
"The Cuban art movement is well known in Europe and more in the US since a
Supreme Court decision which held that the blockade could not apply to
cultural exchanges," says Walker...
Exhibition
* What: Havana Gallery, 17 Great North Rd, ph (09) 360 1414
* On the web: www.havanagallery.co.nz
more at http://havanajournal.com/culture_comments/2708_0_3_0_C/
by Peter Calder | New Zealand Herald
Tue November 30, 2004
A chance meeting in Manhattan led to the establishment of an Auckland
gallery devoted exclusively to Cuban art.
New Zealander David Walker...was invited by the artist [Rigoberto MenaSantana] to stay with him in Havana.
On that visit, and on a return trip to the 2000 Havana Biennale, he met
dozens of gallery directors and curators, many of whom expressed regret that
there was no outlet in Australia devoted to the work of artists from Cuba.
His response was to open the Havana Gallery, which celebrates its first
birthday on Sunday with a sale running until Christmas Eve.
"The Cuban art movement is well known in Europe and more in the US since a
Supreme Court decision which held that the blockade could not apply to
cultural exchanges," says Walker...
Exhibition
* What: Havana Gallery, 17 Great North Rd, ph (09) 360 1414
* On the web: www.havanagallery.co.nz
more at http://havanajournal.com/culture_comments/2708_0_3_0_C/