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José Bedia Valdés

All My Life Like This?, 1991

Description

Maker

  • José Bedia Valdés, b. 1959, Cuban

Title

All My Life Like This?

Year

1991

Medium

Acrylic on canvas with rope

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • acrylic paint

Supports

  • canvas and rope

Dimensions

171.5 x 298.5 cm (67 1/2 x 117 1/2 inches) (Irregular)

Type

  • Paintings

Credit

Nancy Sayles Day Collection of Modern Latin American Art

Object Number

1992.025

Projects & Publications

Publications

Selected Works

Island Nations

New Art From Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and the Diaspora
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Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Island Nations

October 29, 2004 - January 20, 2005

All My Life Like This? depicts the precariousness of daily life in Cuba throughout the early 1990s as a walk on a tightrope. During those years, euphemistically known as the “special period,” Cubans suffered great economic hardship, largely because of the abrupt termination of aid from the collapsing Soviet Union.

¿Toda la vida así? compara lo precario de la vida diaria en Cuba al comienzo de los años 1990s, a caminar en una cuerda floja. Durante estos años, eufemísticamente conocidos como el período especial, los cubanos sufrieron grandes necesidades económicas, mayormente debidas a la súbita falta de ayuda de la Unión Soviética, que en ese momento se estaba desintegrando.

Artistic Expressions of the Human Spirit

November 21, 1997 - April 26, 1998

"De Donde Vengo"

March 15 - April 28, 1996

From the Reserve II

June 24 - August 27, 1994

The Moderns

August 6, 1993 - March 13, 1994

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