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Tomás Esson: EKELE KWA
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Tomás Esson (b. Havana, Cuba, 1963) lives and works in Miami. In 1987 he graduated from the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana. His work was shown in controversial exhibitions in the late '80s, and he became a central figure in the decade’s renaissance in Cuban art. In 1990, he left Cuba and has since lived in Miami and New York. An artist living in exile, Esson connects disparate aesthetic and political traditions from caricature to the concrete abstraction of modernist Cuban painting.
Title: Tomás Esson: EKELE KWA
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Tomás Esson (b.
Havana, Cuba, 1963) lives and works in Miami.
In 1987 he graduated from the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana.
His work was shown in controversial exhibitions in the late '80s, and he became a central figure in the decade’s renaissance in Cuban art.
In 1990, he left Cuba and has since lived in Miami and New York.
An artist living in exile, Esson connects disparate aesthetic and political traditions from caricature to the concrete abstraction of modernist Cuban painting.
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