Kcho (Alexis Leyva Machado)
La isla de mis sueños / Island of My Dreams, 1990
Medium: Drawing
EXHIBITIONS:
2003 (April) 100 Artistas con AVAM. Subasta Extraordinaria de Arte Contemporaneo (100 Artists with AVAM. Extraordinary Auction of Contemporary Art), Madrid, Spain.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
REFERENCES:
Catalogue 100 Artistas con AVAM. Subasta Extraordinaria de Arte Contemporaneo (Madrid: AVAM, 2003), p. 51, item 123. Abelardo Mena Chicuri, Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection (University of Florida Press, 2007). Center for Cuban Studies, 40th Anniversary Calendar, 2012, Cover, illus.
Hablar de lo evidente no fue para nosotros nunca un placer /
Speaking of the obvious was never a pleasure for us, 1997
Speaking of the obvious was never a pleasure for us, 1997
Width: 60cm
Height: 50cm
Medium: Drawing - Crayon on paper
EXHIBITIONS:
1997 Speaking of the obvious was never a pleasure for us, Billy Rose Pavilion, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
La Conquista del Espacio a los Ojos de la Historia / The Conquest of Space in the Eyes of History (From the series "Módulos de Libertad"), 2001
Width: 156cm
Height: 202.5cm
Medium: Drawing - crayon on cardboard
EXHIBITIONS:
2002 (April-June) En el Mar no hay nada escrito (There is nothing written on the sea), Fundación Museo del Ron, Havana.2002 El Huracán (The Hurricane), solo show, Museo de la Escultura, Brazil.
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
REFERENCES:
Catalogues of cited exhibitions.About Kcho (Alexis Leyva Machado)
b. 1970, resides in Cuba
The son of a carpenter and a visual arts teacher who rigorously taught him his first notions about drawing, Kcho obtained his degree in Painting and Drawing at the National School of Art (ENA), founded in 1961. In 1991, he was included in the influential exhibition . . .
Joining the collection, a striking, unsettling canvas from Roberto Fabelo’s recent show at Galería Habana





