La dirección común de un hallazgo nos aúna o dispersa. Más que una cierta pretensión desde el arte, Trust supone el engendro de un consenso al “hacer”; un discursar, casi a coro de repetición y retornos. Una empresa se forja sobre la voluntad colectiva de concentrar – resumir intimidades disueltas y el monopolio lo ejerce la necesariedad de la crítica en el rendimiento grupal.

Fourth Pragmatic and their Professor René Francisco exhibited the last February with the main objective of unifying a group of students. They establish as a necessity the search of objects and specific contexts, where their own connections settle down. In this case they intervenes a space loaded with the beauty and the power of the past.

René Francisco intervenes again with his 4th Pragmatics. This time on a street full of potholes, one of the many that can easily be found in Havana. Their goal, creating a piece of art and reflection out of each hole. For days they studied the field as a class exercise and eventually the work was done on December the 10th. The exercise counts as another instance of art and reality, a gift for the people who live on 74 and 11na, Playa, and incidental passers by.

Classpool was a teaching-creative experience by fourteen ISA Plastic Arts second year students and their professor Rene Francisco. It was a lesson carried out on an alternative space, because according Luis Alberto García, “apparently René hates walled classrooms”. The place – a private swimming pool in Nuevo Vedado, surrounded by trees and a superb view, with bird songs and streaming water as the only soundtrack–, was the 4th Pragmatics’ source of inspiration. There they unfolded their ingenuity between September and October of 2010.

La irrupción en el panorama de las Artes Plásticas Cubanas de la década del ochenta, de una voluntad investigativa cualificadora de cualquier propuesta y de una intención de ponerse a tono con la situación contemporánea del arte, desde las necesidades de nuestro contexto, generó la coincidencia de dos problemáticas ideoestéticas de cuya síntesis han nacido buena parte de los acontecimientos artísticos más relevantes de este lustro: la asimilación crítica de los resultados del proceso de autuconciencia del arte, llevado a cabo por las Vanguardias a lo largo del siglo y el replanteo de sus roles sociales para nuestra situación cultural.