Biography of art rodriguez and associates
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Meet the Artist – Adolf Rodriguez
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In Memoriam: Linda Marie Rodriguez
Linda Marie Rodriguez was a scholar of all things Cuban.
Her attributes as a scholar are best represented in her main art historical project developed around José Antonio Aponte, a free black painter, born in Havana around 1760, who created a now-lost book of paintings full of historical and mythical black characters. Her dissertation, supported by the Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Fellowship, was her first approach to this man’s work who allegedly inspired an antislavery revolt. Because the infamous album no longer exists, Linda was forced to creatively engage in the intricacies of description and memory, shaping a tale of cultural resistance through artistic practice prior to the foundation of Havana’s Academia de San Alejandro. After receiving her Ph.D. in 2012 at Harvard University, Linda revamped her research into a websiteand a traveling exhibitionthat she created in collaboration with colleagues and contemporary artists. In such transformation, that brought past and present together, it became evident her old need for more than great ideas, and her constant interest to contribute to society in many other ways.Her savviness in the digital humanities allowed her, for instance, to eng
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Alberto Alejandro Rodríguez
Alberto Alejandro Rodríguez, born in Havana, Cuba in 1995. Graduated from the San Alejandro National Academy of Fine Arts (2015) and the University of the Arts of Cuba (2020). He is currently studying the Master of Production and Artistic Research at the University of Barcelona. His work moves through the media of drawing, sculpture and installation, developing a practice that explores the relationship between architecture and landscape with the aim of expanding the classifications and categories of different phenomena associated with the forms of interaction of people with their environment. nearby environment.
Recently his work has been aimed at rethinking what can be considered cultural heritage in architecture and urban planning, which has led him to study and represent different types of places, specifically those that have been left aside in society, such as a attempt to redirect people’s attention to the phenomenon itself.