Dot Dot Dot

The Cuban artist Dolores “Loló” Soldevilla’s ( 1901 – 1971 ) Nido de Estrella (Star nest) , 1958 (cat. no. 9 ) allows circular shapes to create a logic of composition that thematizes a certain constellation. Soldevilla was one of the only women to be prominently associated with the development of geometric abstraction and the Concrete Art movement in Cuba. She found abstract compositions an appropriate playground to express her belief in personal freedoms. Abstract art was not really removed from social reality— as it was deemed by the new regime in the 1950 s “obsolete” and “out of touch with the new society,”—it actually promised a joy of the depicted colorful constellations. The abstract circles are thus concretized, and interpreted as signals of (universal) interconnectedness.

Jovana Stokic, PhD.

Jovana Stokic is on the faculty of the MFA Art Practice, SVA and NYU Steinhardt Department of Art and Art Professions. Stokic is a former fellow at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; a researcher at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the curator of the Kimmel Center Galleries, New York University; and the performance curator at Location One, New York.