PABELLÓN CUBA: 4D – 4Dimensions, 4Decades LISA SCHMIDT-COLINET, ALEX SCHMOEGER, FLORIAN ZEYFANG
The book PABELLÓN CUBA: 4D – 4Dimensions, 4Decades* was conceived and edited by Lisa Schmidt-Colinet, Alexander Schmoeger, Eugenio Valdés Figueroa, and Florian Zeyfang. The publication succeeded an exhibition project by the collective Rain, consisting of the fours editors, Susi Jirkuff, and Siggi Hofer, developed for the 8th Havana Biennial in 2003. 4D – 4Dimensions, 4Decades included a special architectural event conceived for the Pabellón Cuba. The architecture opened the space for the 40 international artists Rain invited together with the Biennial’s organization to Havana, asking them for answers to the question, what remained 44 years after the revolution’s original impetus. Concerts, programs with films from the last decades, and video programs that originated in the countries of the invited artists, were part of an extensive 2-week long program. The publication, published some years after, was based on a conference held during 4D – 4Dimensions, 4Decades, and extended the idea of the exhibition by texts and artists’ contributions around La Rampa, the architecture of the pavilion, and the important conferences and exhibitions that took place there in the 1960s and 1970s. The book sheds a light on the architecture and culture originating in Cuba around those years, such as the Art Schools, the housing politics, and Cuba’s designs for the Expo ’67 in Montreal, and contains texts about the history of the Havana Biennial and Cuban art of the last decades. Reprinted here are images from Rain’s installation at the 8th Havana Biennial in 2003, pages from the book representing the Pabellón Cuba on La Rampa Havana during the 1968 Exposición del Tercer Mundo, and pages from the archives about Expo ’67 in Montreal.
* Lisa Schmidt-Colinet, Alex Schmoeger, Eugenio Valdés Figueroa, Florian Zeyfang (Eds.) PABELLÓN CUBA: 4D – 4Dimensions, 4Decades Paperback: 448 pages (March 2008) Berlin: b-books; english/spanish; 34,00 € ISBN 978-3-933557-72-8
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