Flora Fong Exhibition Extended Until June 26

We are happy to announce that Flora Fong’s solo exhibition ‘Art: Elixir of Life’ has been extended until June 26, to allow for all Art | Basel 2015 visitors to attend Flora’s first exhibition in Switzerland at your leisure without time conflicts

.Flora Fong is one of the best-known Cuban female artists and one of the first women who finished art studies in post-revolutionary Cuba and developed a professional career as an artist. Active in art since 1970, she assumed a forerunner role as a woman on the Cuban art scene. All this happened at the time Cuba became a Socialist State after the 1959 revolution under the direction of Fidel and Raúl Castro, Camilo Cienfuegos and Argentinean Che Guevara. The political transformation brought about the corresponding consequences. Culture – music, visual arts, literature and dance – was promoted explicitly as a propaganda poster of the revolution. During approximately 50 years, the Cuban art scene developed in a closed society in which the artists of one generation trained those of the next.