Wednesday, June 7th from 6:30 – 8:30pm Coral Gables Museum and the Coral Gables Art Cinema proudly present a screening of Unfinished Spaces at the cinema across the street from the museum at 260 Aragon Avenue, followed by a viewing of the exhibition “All Stars: CINTAS Foundation Fellows in Architecture & Design from 1963 to 2022”.
Tickets are $10 General Admission ($8 for cinema and museum members). $20 Film + Exhibition tickets grant admission to the film screening and to the All Stars: CINTAS Foundation Fellows in Architecture & Design from 1963 to 2022 exhibition at the museum.
“Cuba will count as having the most beautiful academy of arts in the world.” —Fidel Castro (1961)
In 1961, three young, visionary architects were commissioned by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara to create Cuba’s National Art Schools on the grounds of a former golf course in Havana, Cuba. Construction of their radical designs began immediately, and the school’s first classes soon followed. Dancers, musicians and artists from all over the country reveled in the beauty of the schools, but as the dream of the Revolution quickly became a reality, construction was abruptly halted, and the architects and their designs were deemed irrelevant in the prevailing political climate. Forty years later the schools are in use but remain unfinished and decaying and Castro has invited the exiled architects back to finish their unrealized dream.
Unfinished Spaces features never-before-seen footage of Fidel Castro and documents the struggle and passion of three revolutionary artists.