José Bedia
Doce cuchillos / Twelve Knives, 1983
Width: 51cm
Height: 76cm
Medium: Drawing - ink on cardboard
EXHIBITIONS:
1984 (March) Persistencia del Uso: José Bedia, instalaciones y dibujos (Persistence of Use: José Bedia, installations and drawings), National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana.1984 First Havana Biennial.
2007 (May 29-Sep 9) Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
2007 (Oct 7-Dec 31) Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL
2009 (Oct 3-Jan 4) Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, Jordan Schnitzer Museum, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
2010 (Oct 15-Jan 10) Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
2010 (Feb-Apr 4) Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL
2010 (Jun 27-Sep 19) Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
2012 Caribbean Crossroads of the World, Studio Museum of Harlem, New York
REFERENCES:
Gerardo Mosquera, Persistencia del Uso (Persistence of Use), catalogue text (Havana: National Museum of Fine Arts, 1984). Luis Camnitzer, New Art from Cuba, 1994 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003 reprint), p. 42, illustr. Abelardo Mena Chicuri, Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection (University of Florida Press, 2007). Janet Batet, “El Caribe, megaexposición en Nueva York,” El Nuevo Herald (6-25-2012).
Sueño de la infancia / A Youth’s Dream 1983
Width: 50cm
Height: 65cm
Medium: Drawing - mixed media on paper
REFERENCES:
Judith Bettelheim and Janet Catherine Berlo, Transcultural Pilgrim: three decades of work by José Bedia (Los Angeles, CA : Fowler Museum at UCLA, 2011), p. 84, illus.
Indian, 1985
Width: 50cm
Height: 70cm
Medium: Painting - mixed media on paper
Mimética Reciproca, 1987
Width: 100cm
Height: 70cm
Medium: Drawing - ink on cardboard
EXHIBITIONS:
2004 Estremecimientos, Museo de Badajoz, Badajoz, Spain ; Domus Atrium, Salamanca, SpainREFERENCES:
Estremecimientos (catalogue) (Spain: Fundación Salamanca Ciudad de Cultura, 2004), p. 75.
Madre de Guerra / Mother of War, 1989
Width: 100cm
Height: 70cm
Medium: Drawing - ink on cardboard
EXHIBITIONS:
2002 Kunst aus Kuba: Sammlung Ludwig/Art of Cuba: The Ludwig Collection. Herausgeber, Ludwig Forum für Internationalen Kunst, Peter und Irene Ludwig Stiftund, Museum Ludwig im Russischen Museum, Aachen, Germany.2007 (May 29-Sep 9) Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
2007 (Oct 7-Dec 31) Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL
2009 (Oct 3-Jan 4) Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, Jordan Schnitzer Museum, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
2010 (Oct 15-Jan 10) Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
2010 (Feb-Apr 4) Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL
2010 (Jun 27-Sep 19) Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
2012 Caribbean Crossroads of the World, Studio Museum of Harlem, New York
REFERENCES:
Jurgen Harten and Antonio Eligio (Tonel), eds., Kuba o.k.: actuelle Kunst aus Kuba / Arte actual de Cuba (Düsseldorf: Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf and Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, Cuba, 1990), p. 82. Exhibition catalogue. Kunst aus Kuba: Sammlung Ludwig/Art of Cuba: The Ludwig Collection (Bad Breisig: Palace Editions, 2002), p. 29. Abelardo Mena Chicuri, Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection (University of Florida Press, 2007).
Sarabanda son los Hierros, 1993
Width: 95 inches
Height: 61 7/8 inches
Medium: Painting - Acrylic on canvas
REFERENCES:
G. V. Blanc, “Cuban Art Rediscovered,” in Miami Magazine, 1995, p. 178 (illus.). R. Gutiérrez and R. Gutiérrez Viñuales, Historia del Arte Iberoamericano (Barcelona, Lunwerg Editores, 2000), p. 324 (illus.).
La isla esperando una señal / The Island Waits for a Signal, 2002
Width: 170cm
Height: 80cm
Medium: Painting - Acrylic on canvas
EXHIBITIONS:
2007 (May 29-Sep 9) Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL2007 (Oct 7-Dec 31) Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL
2009 (Oct 3-Jan 4) Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, Jordan Schnitzer Museum, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
2010 (Oct 15-Jan 10) Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
2010 (Feb-Apr 4) Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL
2010 (Jun 27-Sep 19) Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
REFERENCES:
Abelardo Mena Chicuri, Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection (University of Florida Press, 2007). Celia Sredni de Birbragher, “Howard Farber, coleccionista de arte,” Art Nexus 78:9 (2010), pp. 64-69.
About José Bedia
b. 1959, resides in the United States
As the son of a sailor who used to describe the wonders hidden beyond the horizon with the enthusiasm of a Marco Polo, Bedia has periodically taken on the subject of the island, and each time . . .
Joining the collection, a striking, unsettling canvas from Roberto Fabelo’s recent show at Galería Habana