Wild Noise/Ruido Salvaje

The Bronx Museum in New York presents an exploration of Cuban art that looks at how artists have grappled with issues of identity, community, and the urban experience.

“Wild Noise/Ruido Salvaje” is an exploration of contemporary Cuban art from the 1970s to the present that looks at how Cuban artists both on the island and abroad have grappled with issues of identity, community, and the urban experience.

Top: Quisqueya Henriquez, Untitled (Baseball Players), 2007, collage on newsprint. The Bronx Museum of the Arts Permanent Collection. Above: Belkis Ayón, Untitled (Head with Goat), 1991, silkscreen on paper. The Bronx Museum of the Arts Permanent Collection, gift of Jose Alonso and Anna Suarez-Burgos

Bringing together over 60 works by more than 30 artists from the Bronx Museum collection and other U.S. institutions and private collections, the exhibition will feature many artworks that will be publicly exhibited for the first time, including a newly commissioned sculpture and Humberto Díaz as the culmination of a three-month residency at the Bronx Museum.

Douglas Perez Castro, Traccíon Animal, 1995, oil on canvas. The Bronx Museum of the Arts Permanent Collection, gift of Steven Kasher and Susan Spungen Kasher

“Art opens new dimensions and offers us different possibilities. This is the spirit behind ‘Wild Noise/Ruido Salvaje’, an exchange between two museums located in countries with well-known historical differences”, said Corina Matamoros, the Curator of Contemporary Cuban Art at the MNBA. “Over the past five years, we came to know each other personally and professionally, sharing a great amount of knowledge about artworks, artists, and education programs within our respective institutions, as well as assessing the various ways we collect contemporary art.”

Left: Humberto Diaz, Escobita Nueva (New Little Broom), 2014. Wood and plastic sculpture. The Bronx Museum of the Arts Permanent Collection, gift of the Hudgins Family. Right: Carlos Garaicoa, Untitled (Decapitated Angel), 1993, color photograph (detail). The Bronx Museum of the Arts Permanent Collection


until 3 July 2017
Wild Noise/Ruido
curated by: Corina Matamoros and Aylet Ojeda Jequín
The Bronx Museum of the Arts 
1040 Grand Concourse
Bronx, New York