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Works are on sale at reasonable prices. Collectors will find a wide range of printsfor sale. There are etchings, lithographs, silkscreen prints, relief prints,installations and other formats.Sandra Ramos, a well known Havana based artist and curator has selected theexhibition from ‘The Multiple Print’ project, a series of shows that gathers thebest printed and reproducible work made in Cuba incorporating digital art,photography, video, performance, and installations as well as traditionalprintmaking techniques.Print has been important in the development of Cuban art, initially withengravings about Cuban life and manners by visiting European artists. In the19th and 20th centuries Cuban based artists developed a strong lithographictradition with work known as ‘tobacco stamps’.In ‘Cuban Gold- Viva La Reproduccion’ see Cuban art in its contemporaryinternational context, rather than in an isolated antiquated ghetto. ContemporaryCuban artists deal with religion, race and gender; the City and globalisation;Cuban daily life; power relationships and the individual’s alienation in the 21stCentury.While most of the artists whose work is on display have been featured in leadinginternational exhibitions, this is the first time their work has been exhibitedanywhere in the UK.Works are on sale at reasonable prices.Featured artists:Abel BarrosoAgustin ValdesAliosky GarcíaAngel RamirezAntonio NuñezAnyelmaidelín CalzadillaDania FleitesElio RodriguezEdgar HechevarríaFrank MartínezGustavo del ValleHanoi PérezIbrahim MirandaJanet BrosardJ. A.ToiracLazaro Saavedra

Lisandra RamirezMabel PobletNorberto MarreroOctavio IrvingOsmeivy OrtegaSandra RamosTomy R. Ortiz SánchezYamilis BritoJacqueline Brito2. Short CopyCuban Gold: Viva La Reproduccionlondonprintstudio presents an exhibition of contemporary Cuban prints20 January - 4 June 2011Cuban art always has something powerful to say - whether it's post revolutionaryart or the music featured in the film Chico and Rita. The contemporary art scenein Cuba is one of the most interesting in the world. This vibrant exhibitionfeatures some of the most important younger artists working in Cuba today. It’scurated by leading Cuban artist Sandra Ramos.What does it mean to be a Cuban artist in 2011? The Cuban art scene hasexpanded beyond the country’s borders. This exhibition is a first opportunity forUK audiences to view and collect prints by emerging Cuban artists at reasonableprices.The story of Cuban art is one of a young country with ancient traditions. In‘Cuban Gold- Viva La Reproduccion’ see Cuban art in its contemporaryinternational context. Artists with work in the show include Abel Barroso, withlight hearted images of impossible machines; Mabel Poblet with her kineticgames; Jose Toirac with his ‘exhumations’ of historic fragments; Jacqueline Britoand her Mirage print series of the seashore, imaginary ships and migration;Sandra Ramos with her ‘Alice in Wonderland’ figures, Osmeivy Ortega and hisidiosyncratic inhabitants of the ‘real’ Cuba.While most of the artists whose work is on display have been featured in leadinginternational exhibitions, this is the first time their work has been exhibitedanywhere in the UK.Works are on sale at reasonable prices.(Text 233 words)

3. Listings CopyCuban Gold: Viva La Reproduccionlondonprintstudio presents an exhibition of contemporary Cuban prints20 January - 4 June 2011Cuban art always has something powerful to say. Curated by Cubanartist Sandra Ramos, this show features younger Cuban artists who grewup after the revolution. With international curators increasingly interested in LatinAmerican art, this exhibition is a rare opportunity to view and collect prints byemerging Cuban artists.(50 words)High resolution images are available on request. Please emailcarolyn@londonprintstudio.org.ukAbove: left: Osmeivy Ortega, centre: Sandra Ramos, right: Mabel Boblet4. Notes for EditorsSelected details of featured artists follow - for more information contact LPS asshown at the end of this Press Release.José A. Toirac comes from Guantánamo, Cuba. He graduated from theInstitute Superior of Art in Havana in 1990 and has undertaken manyinternational residencies.His work has been exhibited internationally in the USA, Germany, France andSpain. Toirac lives and works in Havana. His work is represented in many privateand public collections including Irene and Peter Ludwig collection, Aachen,Germany; Rubell Family Collection, Florida, USA; National Museum of Cuba, LaHabana, Cuba; Museé des Beux-Arts de Montréal, Québec, Canada; BronxMuseum, NYC, USA; The Daros Latinamerica Museum, Switzerland and MoMA,New York,USA.José Angel Toirac’s statement:-My work tends to disclose the intentions and interests of those mechanisms of

power that "present" events in an apparently realistic, neutral, and objective form.The close work-context relationship has means my work has a strong ethicalcomponent with elements of socio-political criticism. The first frame of referencefor my work isCuba, which does imply that the issues I tackle are endemic only to the Island.My method of creation is to recycle collected images from the press, historybooks, and magazines, using them as ‘ready-mades’, quoting them, andparodying them, deconstructing techniques of representation that give to reality asense of the real, using precisely the very discourse that constructs it; and onthe other hand, to carry out "exhumations" of fragments buried by history.Jacqueline Brito was born in Havana, Cuba in 1973. Graduate of theHigh Institute of Visual Arts, and the Cuban University of Artistic SuperiorStudies, since 1996 she has worked as lecturer in the Painting Department ofthe same Institute. Jacqueline is member of the National Union of Artists andWriters (UNEAC).She has had fourteen solo exhibitions in Cuba and United States, andparticipated in more than 500 group shows around the world. In 2009 sherepresented Cuba in the well known french exhibition Bye-Bye Polaroid, Leic’art.Jacqueline art works are in many important collections, galleries and museumsincluding Arizona State University Art Museum, United States; FoundationAntonio Perez, Cuenca, Spain; The Collection of the Akron Museum, Ohio; SanFrancisco Art Institute, California; The Rubin Museum of Art, New York;Jablonka Gallery, Cologne , Germany… and many private collections. She hasalso received international prizes including International UNESCOcompetition Painting for peace.Jacqueline Brito’s statement:-Espejismos (Mirages, mirror visions or wishful thinking), is a lithography made in9 colours. This work belongs to a larger series also titled Espejismos, thatincludes oil on canvas and drawings. The subject is a seascape, using the socialview of Cuba seashores, and borders - migration. The ships are Chevroletsconverted into boats looking for the "promised land". The application of layers ofwater based ink, increases an aquatic sense, and the use of gold leaf isthe visual translation that the artist uses for representing the golden dream, theAmerican Dream.The series Pócimas,(dose, draught, or brew) presented by Yamilys BritoJorge, are pieces made in different graphic techniques: the digital print, thecollagraph, and linocut on paper. There are one copy prints, and all of them,have as “point of inspiration” the labels of ancient medicines, from the late 19Century or earliest 20 century. Yamilys takes the purposes of healing, or cure ofthis brews (ex. For purify the blood, or to treat the hair and skin) and the artistcreates new metaphors of the body and soul, as the alchemist producesnew ways to be pure, in good physical and spiritual shape.

Mabel Poblet PujolBorn Cienfuegos, Cuba, 1986.Education- National Academy of Fine Arts “San Alejandro” (graduated with honors).- Workshop “Art of Behavior”, by Tania Bruguera.- Member of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba.- Currently studying at High Institute of Art (ISA).SOLO EXHIBITIONS:2009- “Un Sueño Real” (A Real Dream). Photographic Library of Cuba.Havana, Cuba, 2008- “Mirando adentro” (Looking inside). The Cuban ArtSpace, Center for Cuban Studies, New York; 2007- “Ábacos” (Abacuses)Cinematographic Cultural Center Gallery, Havana; 2006- “Works on Paperand Sculpture”. The Cuban Art Space. Center for Cuban Studies, NewYork ; 2006- “Lugar de Origen” (Place of Origin). José A. Díaz PeláezGallery. San Alejandro Academy. Havana, Cuba.GROUP EXHIBITIONS:2010- “Profecía” (Prophecy). 23 and 12 Gallery. Havana, Cuba;“Mujheroes” (Women). Oswaldo Guayasamín House Gallery. Havana; “CubaPinta Guayasamín” (Cuba Paints Guayasamín). Oswaldo Guayasamín HouseGallery. Havana; “Sencillamente Korda” (Simply Korda). MunicipalArchive. Vila Real St Antonio. Portugal; “Arte Cubana em Coimbra”(Cuban Art at Coimbra). Arte e Centro de Mutualismo Gallery. Portugal;“Sencillamente Korda” (Simply Korda). José Martí Memorial. Havana.2009- “Cuba Pinta Guayasamín” (Cuba Paints Guayasamín). Quito,Ecuador; Lisbon Art Fair. Sacramento Gallery. Portugal; “A Temporal”(A Temporal). Development Center of Visual Arts. Havana; “Cambio yFuera” (Over and Out). High Institute of Art. Tenth Havana Biennial;“In Ten So” (InTenSe). Los Oficios Gallery. Tenth Havana Biennial.Mabel Poblet’s statement:-Series:- Place of Origin ORIGIN- syn. Provenance, Beginning, Embryo, Cause,Source, Mother, Ancestry, Seeds, Base, Start, Core… // Etymology, Lineage,Country, Forefathers, Home, Race, Blood…Place of Origin comes from the use of real objects from different stages of my life(photos); through their reproduction (time) they become new images = selfportraitsor portraits of different places as a form to perpetuate a fragment of mypast/present/future, future/present/past.Art provides me the visual means to exteriorize feelings, the use of objects offersme freedom to follow the path of understanding and show differentinterpretations of these feelings- through the fragmentation of images or objects,

through games; and sometimes kinetics. While these were the beginnings of theseries Place of Origin and I keep working with the methodology, I’m no longerinterested just the self-reference but also in working with the history of others ,where daily routine, intimacy, privacy, become part of everybody.Osmeivy OrtegaEducation1999 – 2003 - San Alejandro’s National Academy of Fine Arts. Havana City,Cuba.2005-2010 Higher Institute of Art. Havana City, Cuba.1999 - Xylography course by professor Carlos Capellán. Havana ExperimentalPress, Havana City, Cuba.2003 - Experimental chalcography course by Spanish professor FernandoBellver. Havana Experimental Press, Havana City, Cuba.2008 -Experimental Workshop by Puerto Rico profesor Antonio MaltolellHavana Experimental Press, Havana City, Cuba.Group Exhibitions2009 - Cuba art, Mexico City.‘The black one is also a color’2008 - III Public Art Meeting. Ciego de Ávila, Cuba. III Grechen Biennale,Swtzerland2007 - Back Door. Higher Institute of Art. Havana City, Cuba; TheYoung Image Engraving Biennial. House of the Americas, Havana City,Cuba; Island or Continent. Luz y Oficios Gallery, Havana City, Cuba ;Involved. Collective exhibition of the Havana Graphic Arts Experimental Press.23 y 12 Gallery, Havana City, Cuba; II Public Art Meeting. Ciego de Ávila, Cuba.2006 - The Multiple Influence. Collateral exhibition, IX Havana Biennial. HavanaCity, Cuba; GRAFICONDUCTA. Gallery of the Cuban Institute ofCinematographic Art and Industry, Havana City, Cuba;- VI National EngravingMeeting. Wilfredo Lam Center for ContemporaryArt. Havana City, Cuba.2002 - March 13 Salon. Havana University, Cuba.- Cuban Contemporary Artists.Miami, Florida, U.S.A.Osmeivy Ortega’s statement:-American DreamCulture generates structures that can bring about subcultures thatdevelop in the social margins. With this series of works I proclaimmyself against the false appropriations that are inserted in ourculture and that, from an identity point of view, do not reflect thehabits or idiosyncrasy of the Island of Cuba, while not trying tocontribute to ethnocentrism.Gustavo del ValleBorn Cienfuegos, 1985.

Solo Exhibitions2010 El Rey Midas nos ha tocado. Centro de Desarrollo. C. Habana.2009- GADU. Gran Logia Masónica de Cuba. Havana City, Cuba.2008- Reflexion. Culture House of Plaza. Havana City, Cuba.2006- Image Movement. Higher Institute of Arts. Havana City, Cuba.2002- Our Identity of Every Day. Provincial Museum, Cienfuegos, Cuba.Group Exhibitions2010 El extremo de la bala, una década de arte cubano, Pabellón Cuba,La Habana Cuba; Van Gogh Boat, Sala Rubén Martínez Villena de laUNEAC, La Habana Cuba; Trópico Estoico, Museo de Mucarroma, MéxicoCity México.2009- Cambio y Fuera. Collateral exhibition of the 10th HavanaBiennial. Higher Institute of Arts. Havana City, Cuba.2008- Inventory Project. Ludwing Fundation of Cuba. Havana City, Cuba.2007- Back Door. Plastic Arts School, Higher Institute of Arts. HavanaCity, Cuba.2006- Reconstruction. Collateral exhibition of the Havana Biennial.Higher Institute of Arts, Havana City, Cuba.2005- Trinidad Biennial. Sancti Spíritus, Cuba.2004- Prizewinning Artists` Salon. Center for the Development ofVisual Arts, Havana City, Cuba.- September 5 Salon. Center for the Development of Visual Arts, HavanaCity, Cuba.- Graphic Humor International Salon. San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba.2003- Prizewinning Artists` Salon. Center for the Development ofVisual Arts, Havana City, Cuba.- September 5 Salon. Center for the Development of Visual Arts, HavanaCity, Cuba.- Quick Painting. UNEAC`s Gallery, Cienfuegos, Cuba.- Ceramics Provincial Salon. Provincial Gallery, Cienfuegos, Cuba.Gustavo del Valle Ramírez’s statement:-The starting point in my work is man seen either as an isolated entity or as asocial one, since from him many stories has been told, lot of societies has beencreated, thinking systems, lifestyles, and so on. What concerns me the most isCuban man, Cuban society - the only one I know and to which I belong. As anartist, I have always kept a maxim: art is not but the reflection of a society, andwhen man creates it, he himself takes on particular responsibilities andjudgments that show how different we can be from the other as well as ourthinking way and our behavior.Sandra Ramos (Artist and curator)Education1993 Instituto Superior de Arte. ISA. Havana, Cuba; 1988 Academia de

San Alejandro. Havana, Cuba; 1983 Escuela Elemental de Artes Plásticas“20 de Octubre”. Havana, CubaSolo Shows2003 Naufragios: Sandra Ramos Paintings and Installation. Citizen Gallery.Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Insomnios. PROMOARTE Gallery. Tokyo,Japan; Prints by Alicia Candiani and Sandra Ramos. Sala Contemporánea. Casade las Américas. Havana, Cuba; Fish Testament. Casas ReignierGallery. Miami, Florida; Promises. Installation and videos by Sandra Ramos.Casa de las Américas. Havana, Cuba.2002 Espejismos. PROMOARTE Gallery. Tokyo, Japan.1999 Inmersiones y enterramientos. Galería Habana. Havana, CubaInmersiones y enterramientos. Galería Nina Menocal. México City. Mexico.1998 Dos cubanas soñadoras. Gallery Space 21. Tokyo, Japan.1997 Sandra Ramos. INAX Corporation Show Room. Sapporo, Japan.Autoreconocimiento del pez. Galería Nina Menocal. México City, Mexico.1995 Sandra Ramos. New Works. Gallery 420 x 20. Arhem, Holland.Cruzar las aguas. Fundación Ludwing de Cuba. Centro Nacional deRestauración y Museología. Convento de Santa Clara. Havana, Cuba.Crossing the Waters. Stadtische Burggalerie. Burg Stolberg. Aachen, Germany.Criaturas de Isla. Galería Nina Menocal. México City, Mexico.Náufragos de orilla. Le Pneumatique Nantaise. Expo inédita porcancelación del Festival “Les Allumees”. Nantes – Havana.1994 Con mi cruz a cuestas. Homage to José Martí. Centro Cultural JoséMartí. México City, Mexico.1993 Con mi cruz a cuestas. Galería Nina Menocal. México City, Mexico.Manera de matar las soledades. Centro de Desarrollo de las ArtesVisuales. Havana, Cuba.Group Shows2003 De Aquí y de Alla (From Here and From There). A Survey of ContemporaryCuban Artists. Fraser Gallery. Bethesda, Maryland.Utopía - Post Utopía. Video and photo Exhibition. State University of New Yorkat New Paltz. USA. Curator: Helaine Posner.Cuba Grabada. Museo de Arte Moderno de Santo Domingo. Dominican RepublicDel otro lado del Alma. Fototeca Nacional de Cuba. Havana, Cuba.Sentido Común. Galería Habana. Havana, Cuba.Women Artists of Cuba. The Center for Cuban Studies. New York, NY.Art Chicago. Chicago, Illinois.2002 La Huella Múltiple. Sobreviviendo. Galería La Casona. Havana, CubaF A I R. Royal College of Art. London, UKContemporary Cuban Artists. Zeit-Foto Salón. Tokyo, JapanProyecto Batíscafo. 260 Inmovilidad Molecular. Centro Wifredo Lam. Havana,Cuba. Four Looks. Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts. Miami, Florida.Atravesados. Deslizamientos de identidad y género. Fundación

Telefónica. Madrid, Spain. Cuban Fusion. Contemporary Cuban Art. GreenwichArts Center. New York, NY. Proyecto 2. Centro Provincial de Artes Plásticas.Havana, Cuba Works on Paper. Henaine Fine Arts. New York, NY. La HuellaMúltiple. Havana Gallery. Zurich. Switzerland. Art Basel Miami Beach, Florida.Sandra Ramos’ statement:-Since 1993 I have made colour chalcography engravings, using etching andaquatint techniques. In those prints I combine my self-portrait and a XIX centurywood print in order to create a character similar to Alice in Wonderland. This girl,costumed as a Cuban pioneer in a red uniform, has the function of an alter egomaking critical and ironic social comments about the recent history of my country.As a narrative character, she guides the stories and images pointed out by texts,through reflections about Cubans everyday life and concerns. In this series I alsoincorporate classical characters taken from the popular political Cubancaricatures, as Liborio and Abela’s Foul, which are symbols of Cuban peopleduring the beginning of the XX Century and Neo-colonial period.4. About londonprintstudiolondonprintstudio was first established in 1974, initially working under the nameof Paddington Printshop. It worked with the local community on various causes,as well as producing posters and designs for arts and music events. In theprocess, the studio became involved in many of the well known causes of theperiod and established a new model of community-based art practice that wasreplicated in cities across the UK. londonprintstudio now has charity status, andpeople using the studio range from students and community organisations tomajor international artists and arts institutions. londonprintstudio runs a galleryand an open resource providing access to traditional printmaking and digitalmedia. The studio also runs a Masters programme in Printmaking andProfessional Practice in partnership with the Bucks New University. The studioruns international residencies, often focusing on professional artists working indeveloping countries.londonprintstudio gallery425 Harrow Rd London W10 4REOpen Tuesday to Saturday 10.30am to 6.00pm Admission free.Nearest Underground Stations: Westbourne Park and Ladbroke Grove.Buses No 18, 328, 31 & 36 pass close to the studio.Further information, please contact John Phillips T: 020 8969 3247 Emailjohn@londonprintstudio.org.uk