#INSTAR @ Documenta: Cossacks in Cuba, the Soviet visual legacy in Cuban art

#INSTAR @ Documenta: Cossacks in Cuba, the Soviet visual legacy in Cuban art
Cossacks in Cuba, the Soviet visual legacy in Cuban art

Guest:
Elvis Fuentes

Art curator, history professor and writer
In the early 1980s, the "Cossacks" began to arrive, as graduates of Soviet art academies were called, thanks to a pedagogical exchange program between the USSR and Cuba. The newcomers were stigmatized by the same officials who had awarded them those scholarships, in addition to entering an artistic community very different from the one they left when they left.