June 8, 2015
Miami Dade College’s Museum of Art + Design Presents New Exhibition by Cuban Artist Florencio Gelabert
Miami, March 17, 2015 – Miami Dade College’s (MDC) Museum of Art + Design(MOAD) presents A Dialogue With Time, a new series of thought-provoking large-scale sculptures, installations, drawings and sketches by Cuban artist Florencio Gelabert never exhibited before.
Miami, March 17, 2015 – Miami Dade College’s (MDC) Museum of Art + Design(MOAD) presents A Dialogue With Time, a new series of thought-provoking large-scale sculptures, installations, drawings and sketches by Cuban artist Florencio Gelabert never exhibited before. A Director’s Preview, free and open to everyone, will be held Wednesday, June 10, from 6 – 8 p.m. at MOAD located within the College’s Historic Freedom Tower. The exhibition will be free and open to the public June 11 through August 16.
Born in Cuba in 1961, Gelabert belongs to a generation of artists who came of age after Fidel Castro’s rise to power in 1959. He is recognized as one of Cuba’s principal contemporary sculptors, trained at the renowned art school, San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts in Havana at the age of thirteen and subsequently at the pioneering Higher Institute of Art. He received a master’s in fine arts from the University of Miami. His most recent body of work, A Dialogue with Time, consists of a new series of large-scale sculptures, installations, drawings, and sketches exhibited for the first time.