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Grupo ABTV

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Grupo ABTV was the name given to the artistic collaboration between Cuban artists Tanya Angulo, Juan Ballester Carmenates, José Angel Toirac Batista and Ileana Villazón by the Uruguayan artist and critic Luis Camnitzer.[1] ABTV did not consider itself a group in this respect until their work began to be written about by foreign critics.

One of Grupo ABTV's more notorious projects was the exhibition Homenaje a Hans Haacke, an exhibition in homage to the German conceptual artist Hans Haacke. The exhibition was due to open as part of an exhibition cycle at the Castillo de la Real Fuerza in Havana in September 1989, but it was canceled due to pressure from the National Council of Visual Arts that opposed the exhibition's high critical content regarding the cultural policy of the Cuban Ministry of Culture.[2]

References

  1. ^ Camnitzer, Luis (1994). New Art of Cuba. Austin: University of Texas Press.
  2. ^ Sholette, Gregory; Weiss, Rachel (2007). Collectivism after Modernism: the art of social imagination after 1945. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.