Los Diez Pintores Concretos (The Ten Concrete Painters) was a mid 20th Century Cuban avant-garde visual art collective centered upon the strong emphasis on geometric abstraction at the core of Concretism. The group existed from 1959 until 1961 and its members included Pedro de Oraá, Loló Soldevilla, Sandú Darié, Pedro Carmelo Álvarez López, Wifredo Arrcay Ochandarena, Salvador Zacarías Corratgé Ferrera, Luis Darío Martínez Pedro, José María Mijares, Rafael Soriano López, and José Ángel Rosabal Fajardo. The group's activities were centered on the Galeria Color-Luz, founded in Havana by Soldevilla and de Oraá in 1957.[1][2][3] Their approach to geometric abstraction was part of a broader resurgence of concretism in Latin American in the late 1940s and 1950s; through Darié, Los Diez had links to the Argentine Grupo Madí.[4] Though Los Diez "affirm[ed] their work as a transformative intervention into - not a reflection of, nor an escape from - the world," the group "struggled to advance their social manifesto."[1]
Los Diez was the subject of the exhibition Concrete Cuba at the David Zwirner Gallery displayed at the gallery's London location in 2015 and their New York City venue in 2016.[5][6][7] An elaborate accompanying catalogue was produced and features an interview with Pedro De Oraá, then last surviving member of the group, by Lucas Zwirner.[8]
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edit- ^ a b McEwen, Abigail (2016). Revolutionary horizons : art and polemics in 1950s Cuba. New Haven. ISBN 978-0-300-21681-3. OCLC 946481815.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ "Cuba: El Impacto de los Once - Carlos M. Luis". www.contactomagazine.com. Retrieved 2021-05-17.
- ^ de Oraá, Pedro (1996). "Una Experiencia Plástica: Los Diez Pintores Concretos". La Gaceta de Cuba. p. 50-54.
- ^ Ramírez Abreu, Virginia (2021). Perpetuas desahuciadas. Madrid: Editorial Verbum. pp. 168–169. ISBN 9788413373768.
- ^ ARTnews, The Editors of (2015-09-08). "'Concrete Cuba' at David Zwirner, London". ARTnews.com. Retrieved 2020-09-15.
{{cite web}}:|first=has generic name (help) - ^ "Concrete Cuba press release". David Zwirner. Retrieved 2020-09-15.
- ^ Adam, Alfred Mac (2016-01-26). "'Concrete Cuba' at David Zwirner, New York". ARTnews.com. Retrieved 2020-09-15.
- ^ "Concrete Cuba: Cuban Geometric Abstraction from the 1950s and Concrete Cuba". Concrete Cuba: Cuban Geometric Abstraction from the 1950s and Concrete Cuba. Retrieved 2020-09-15.