If I Lose Memory : Twenty Contemporary Cuban Artists

In this volume Corina Matamoros brings together some of the most outstanding creators of the Cuban contemporary artistic scene, with essays that reveal a sharp curatorial perspective. Emerging, for the most part, from shows organised at the National Museum of Fine Arts (Havana), these texts examine the personal poetics of the authors, while revealing the intense consonance that has existed between their brilliant artistic productions and the sustained and faithful welcome they have received in the collections of the National Museum, to which the author has dedicated her professional life.

Creators such as José Toirac, Los Carpinteros, Lázaro Saavedra, Carlos Garaicoa, Abel Barroso, Aimée García, Sandra Ramos, Kcho, Eduardo Ponjuán, José Manuel Fors, and Gustavo Pérez Monzón, among others, are treated, according to the prologue by Dr. Juan Martínez, with vibrant prose, intelligence, and haiku economy.

If I Lose Memory is an excellent addition to the corpus of literature on Cuban contemporary art.

Text in English and Spanish.

Contents: Prologue; JOSÉ MANUEL FORS | A Pike in Flanders; CARLOS GARCÍA | A History of Abstractions; SANTIAGO RODRÍGUEZ OLAZÁBAL | Between Heaven and Earth; JOSÉ TOIRAC | Coming Back; ALFREDO RAMOS | Vestiges; LOS CARPINTEROS | Inventing the World; CARLOS GARAICOA | The Architecture of the Amends; TANIA BRUGUERA | The Transposed Heads; ABEL BARROSO | Against the Borders; KCHO | The Drunken Boat; SANDRA RAMOS | Nautilus; EDUARDO PONJUÁN | Kiss Me again; ERNESTO RANCAÑO | Critical Biography Sketch; ROCÍO GARCÍA | If I Lose Memory; AIMÉE GARCÍA | A Cautious Deception of Meanings; RENÉ FRANCISCO RODRÍGUEZ | He Shaves His Body Self-Confidently; GLENDA LEÓN | Vital Signs; GLEXIS NOVOA | The Landscape and the Window; LÁZARO SAAVEDRA | The Lines Are Congested; GUSTAVO PÉREZ MONZÓN | Man, the Chosen Number; Artists Biographies.