About Franklin Álvarez Fortún
b. Camagüey, Cuba, 1971. Resides in Havana.
The works of Franklin Álvarez Fortún—who graduated from the Instituto Superior de Arte in 1998—exemplify trends in Cuban art that emerged in the wake of the 1993 exhibition Las Metáforas del Templo (Metaphors of the Temple), and were granted a certain legitimacy with the 1996 Primer Salón de Arte Contemporáneo (First Salon of Contemporary Art). ...
