Eduardo Hernández Santos
from the series Corpus frágil

from the series Corpus frágil

© 2000 Eduardo Hernández Santos

from the series Corpus frágil
from the series Corpus frágil
CultureCuban
Titles
  • from the series Corpus frágil
  • from the series Corpus Fragile
Date2000
MediumGelatin silver print with mixed media
DimensionsImage (At open): 23 13/16 × 18 3/8 in. (60.5 × 46.6 cm)
Frame (outer): 31 × 25 × 1 3/16 in. (78.7 × 63.5 × 3 cm)
Credit LineThe Madeleine P. Plonsker Collection, Gift of Madeleine and Harvey Plonsker
Object number2024.255
Current Location
The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building
Gallery 314
On view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

Eduardo Hernández Santos learned of George Platt Lynes, Robert Mapplethorpe, and other photographers of the male nude from friends who traveled outside of Cuba and brought back books and knowledge of a wider world of art and photography. A liberating two-month stay in Buenos Aires in 1994 revealed a world with greater horizons than what he experienced at home and had been taught to believe. From that point forward, art became part of a larger engagement for civil rights he knew to be possible and for a joyous, supportive community he soon found in the illegal parties and underground gay nightlife of 1990s Havana.

 

Eduardo Hernández Santos conoció a George Platt Lynes, Robert Mapplethorpe y otros fotógrafos del desnudo masculino a través de amigos que viajaron fuera de Cuba y trajeron libros que ilustraban un mundo más abierto para el arte y la fotografía. En 1994, una liberadora estancia de dos meses en Buenos Aires le reveló horizontes más amplios que los que conocía y le habían hecho creer. A partir de entonces, asumió arte como un compromiso con los derechos civiles y con una comunidad alegre y solidaria que encontró en las fiestas ilegales y la vida nocturna gay de La Habana de los años 90.


ProvenanceMadeleine and Harvey Plonsker, Glencoe, Illinois; given to MFAH, 2024.

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