Concrete Cuba: Cuban Geometric Abstraction from the 1950s

Concrete Cuba marks one of the first major presentations outside of Cuba to focus exclusively on the origins of concretism in the country.

Radical political shifts that raged throughout Cuba in the 1950s coincided with the development of Cuban geometric abstraction and, notably, the formation of Los Diez Pintores Concretos (Ten Concrete Painters). The decade was marked by widespread turmoil and corruption following the 1952 military coup and by rising nationalist sentiments. At the same time...