Opening Reception—Former Present Today

Friday, January 12, 2024
6:00pm—8:00pm
Artist & Curator Remarks: 6:30pm

Location:
Blaffer Art Museum
FREE and open to the public

The Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston is proud to present the first solo museum exhibition in the United States of Cuban conceptual artist Reynier Leyva Novo. Former Present Today presents a newly realized installation and painting series to simultaneously reveal and conceal monuments, structures, and figureheads which manifest revolution and tyranny. The works are created through research on icons and memorialization and how the prestige of nation established through revolution utilizes both facts and myths as a means of propaganda.

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Images: Reynier Leyva Novo

Funded by the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts