Lowe Art Museum Opening Receptions for Diago: The Pasts of this Afro-Cuban Present & Carlos Estévez: Cities of the Mind

Thursday, October 24th from 7 – 9pm enjoy the opening reception of two new exhibitions at the Lowe Art Museum | University of Miami.

Diago: The Pasts of this Afro Cuban Present (October 24, 2019 – January 19, 2020)

A leading member of the New Afro-Cuban cultural movement, visual artists Juan Roberto Diago (b. 1971) has produced a body of work that offers a revisionist history of the Cuban Nation. Featuring forty works produced by Diago over the course of his career, this exhibition was guest curated by Dr. Alejandro de la Fuente (Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics, Professor of African and African American Studies, Director of the Afro-Latin American Research Institute at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, and Chair of the Cuba Studies Program at Harvard University) and is presented in collaboration with the Miami Museum of Contemporary Art of the African Diaspora (Miami MoCAAD).

Carlos Estévez: Cities of the Mind (October 24, 2019 – May 3, 2020)

The most recent project of renowned Cuban-American artist Carlos Estévez, Cities of the Mind features nine large-format paintings that reference the artist’s fascination with city plans. Inspired by the Havana of his youth, the Medieval European cities to which he has traveled extensively as an adult, and his abiding interest in symbolic cosmology and origin stories, Estévez has created in this body of new work personal maps of the human mind influenced by ancient cartography. Guest curated by Dr. Carol Damian.

Admission: $12.50; Complimentary for Lowe members. Purchase Tickets here.

Image: Juan Roberto Diago. Sin Titulo (Untitled), 2011. Mixed Media on Canvas, 50.5 x 39.5 Inches. Private Collection. ©Juan Roberto Diago.