- Atado de memorias
- Bundle of Memories
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Since the late 1970s, José Manuel Fors has been significant among contemporary
artists raised and educated in post-revolutionary Cuba. He came to photography
from sculpture and usually arranges photographs within grids and collages or as
part of image-based objects. Faded, scratched, and browned by coffee, these
bundled family photographs are relics of personal and collective memories.
Recycling found materials is typical of Cuban artists, who have not always had
easy access to new art supplies.
Desde finales de los 70, José Manuel
Fors se ha destacado entre los artistas contemporáneos que crecieron y se
educaron en la Cuba posterior a la Revolución. Se inicia en la fotografía
procedente de la escultura, y, muchas veces, compone sus fotos con cuadrículas
y collages, llegando a hacerlas parte de objetos en base a imágenes. Tales
fotos familiares, descoloridas, rasguñadas u oscurecidas con café, son
reliquias que recuerdan tanto lo personal como lo colectivo. El reciclaje de
objetos hallados es una constante en los artistas cubanos, quienes, por lo
general, carecen de acceso inmediato a materiales nuevos para arte.
ProvenanceAnne Wilkes Tucker, Houston; given to MFAH, 2003.
Exhibition History"The Past Made Present: Contemporary Art and Memory," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, September 2, 2006–January 16, 2007.
"Ruptures and Continuities: Photography Made after 1960 from the MFAH Collection," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, February 21–May 9, 2010.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Marked in pencil on verso upper left: "Fors / 3/25/03-4"
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