Cuban-born Wifredo Lam's works are well known outside Asia, but the first solo exhibition of the half-Chinese artist's work in Hong Kong has only just opened Lam's multicultural existence - he ...

The loosely chronological exhibition will trace cultural and historical influences that informed the 20th-century artist's practice—moving from Cuba to Spain, Paris, and Italy.

At the same time, Wilfredo’s works were frequently being discussed in the arts scene in New York and Paris. So, as a figure who represented Cuba on the world stage, Wilfredo was given an award as a ...

But, Les Noces was made in 1947, when Wilfredo had already been back in Cuba ... with artists in colonising countries, he used surrealism as a means to dismantle colonial thinking to reject and oppose ...

René Portocarrero was a Cuban painter whose contour lines and passages of color depicted the tropical environs and women of Havana. There is a distinctive influence of Wifredo Lam’s work in ...

“MY PAINTING is an act of decolonisation,” said Wilfredo Lam shortly before his death in 1982 at the age of 80. But that intent wasn’t always a given. A Cuban of mixed Chinese and black-Spanish ...

"This exhibition modestly retraces the journey of Cuban art since the 1930s," el-Idrissi added. The first section of the ...