The sly art of Cuba

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A friend of ours here on Cape Cod has been importing art from Cuba for a long time. She got her license from Treasury a looong time ago, and thus got a headstart on the opening that resulted from Obama's restoration of diplomatic relations (in 2008, I predicted he would do it before he left office, but he kept me biting my fingernails for 7 years!).

Some prefer abstracts. Some, notably Edel Bordón, prefer to explore darker themes (we have several of his works). One of his works that hangs in our house in Germany, we have to hide away when one of my wife's friends visits. She is mentally ill, and gets extremely upset when she sees it.

This year, she had some work by a couple of artists we didn't know. One of them, Ares Guerrero, had three that we liked so much, we bought two for ourselves and one for Norm Ornstein, a friend from Minnesota who now lives and works as a political analyst in Washington.

This is the one we bought for Norm:
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These are the two we are keeping for ourselves:
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And there is this one, which I like, but my wife doesn't, by a guy who is almost blind, and does paintings based on 50 year old photographs. His name is Karlos Pérez (spelled with a K). I haven't bought this, as we have nowhere to put it in our house in Germany, but I'm tempted to have it put up in my office in Dallas (where I am maybe ten days out of the year!):

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1. I bought 3 prints from various artists while in Cuba. They seem to have

an abundance of good artists there. All 3 of mine are relatively small so I could get them home.

[DFW]

2. Our two small ones can be carried

But the big one one, if I buy it, it would have to be shipped to Düsseldorf, and that plus German customs, would start to add up to real money, although storing it in Dallas would eliminate much of that cost.