Pan American Art Projects represented artists Jose Toirac, Sandra Ramos are participating in a collective exhibition at the Mohammed VI Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, in Rabat, Morocco. Other artists participating in the show include Loló Soldevilla, Sandú Darié, Gustavo Acosta, Alexandre Arrea, Adriana Arronte, Abel Barroso, José Bedia, María Magdalena Campos, Roberto Diago, Ricardo Elías, Adonis Flores, Aimeé García, Kcho, Liudmila & Nelson, Kadir López, Frank Martínez, Marianela Orozco, René Peña, Esterio Segura, and José Ángel Vincench.
The exhibit titled, "De l’autre côté de l’Atlantique: l’art cubain", curated by José Manuel Noceda from the Wilfredo Lam Center, will be shown through June 16th of this year. The exhibition illustrates the dominant themes of Cuban art, from isolation and economic embargo to heritage and societal identity.
This show marks the first time José Toirac's work is exhibited outside of Cuba. The series, composed of 44 paintings, marks the contradictions of men in power, by ironically representing the figure of Fidel Castro in tasty advertising diversions. Previously, his paintings depicting Fidel Castro, the country's late anti-capitalist president, in the iconography of American advertising and consumer culture were not allowed to leave the island.
Miami-based artist Sandra Ramos is also participating in the exhibition with her piece “Carrera De Relevo.”
“The short animations allow me to widen expressive and communicative margins of my pictorial and graphic work through the use of symbols, characters and situations I have been using all this years. Their re-elaboration in a narrative media with a particular visually and promotional capabilities concedes me the opportunity to take this little histories, this scenes of daily life in Cuba to a high level where the movement completes the specific idea,” she said.
As a testament to the historical significance of this exhibition, it proudly presents 44 works by the legendary Afro-Cuban painter, Wifredo Lam. This is a rare and important opportunity to experience Lam's work more than a year before his retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2025.