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Ordo Amoris Cabinet ‘Mouse pads and Screen savers’, Artpace, San Antonio (curated by Cuauhtémoc Medina) –2001

Living and working in Havana, Cuba, Francis Acea and Diango Hernandez formed Ordo Amoris Cabinet in 1994. Acea was born in Havana, Cuba in 1967 and Hernandez was born in Sancti-Spiritus, Cuba in 1970. Attending the Havana Superior Institute of Design, Acea and Hernandez received their degrees in graphic and industrial design respectively and formed an artistic collaboration under the appellation of Ordo Amoris Cabinet, …

Posted: March 21st, 2001 ˑ
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Ordo Amoris Cabinet ‘The Gabinete Ordo Amoris’ by Orlando Hernández –1999

There are many ways in which to understand the life of a country and many ways to explain it. One of these – and the only one of interest to us here – is through the observation and study of its every day objects, these being of great significance to some, of none to others. And I do not refer to those objects we normally …

Posted: June 20th, 1999 ˑ
Filled under: collaborations, installations, ordo amoris, sculptures, videos

Ordo Amoris Cabinet ‘The eternal object: Notes on a film’ by Sarah Lightbody –2004

SECTION 1: SYNOPSIS & TREATMENT (film synopsis – 32 minutes/B&W 16mm). The Eternal Object addresses a shift in Cuban art practices during the 1990’s toward issues concerning a crisis in national identity in view of Perestroika and the unrelenting American embargo. The film documents the construction of an art project built at the Banff Center for the Arts in 1997 by the Cuban artist …

Posted: October 20th, 1998 ˑ
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Ordo Amoris Cabinet ‘The order of love’ by Wolfgang Becker –1998

A vitrine in the Ludwig Foundation in Havana, Cuba, contains a collection of small objects that Francis Acea and Diango Hernández have been gathering from Cuban households in the last few years: vases built of bottles cut into pieces, shoes made of heated up plastic garbage, kerosene lamps made of glass containers where the labels give the time when Havana will be with out electricity, …

Posted: April 20th, 1998 ˑ
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Ordo Amoris Cabinet by Ariella Yedgar –1998

Luxury is rarely experienced by contemporary Cubans. In fact, it seems so remote that even the idea of design, as we understand the term, seems like a luxury. Cuba is a society that has had to rely on selfsufficiency to survive – blockaded by America and isolated from a dwindling community of sympathetic states, it remains an anachronistic emblem of the once noble ideals of …

Posted: April 20th, 1998 ˑ
Filled under: collaborations, installations, ordo amoris, sculptures

Ordo Amoris Cabinet ‘Testimony’ by Helmo Hernández –1997

…It is not by chance that we are born in one place and not in another place, it is to give our testimony. Eliseo Diego (For strange peoples). Diango Hernández and Francis Acea, who are the Ordo Amoris Cabinet at present, are the authors of Reinforced Concrete. They have turned the exhibition halls of the Center for the Development of Visual Arts in Havana into …

Posted: June 21st, 1997 ˑ
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Ordo Amoris Cabinet 1994-2003

Ordo Amoris Cabinet: Across Havana in a Limosina by Antonio Eligio Tonel, 1999

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The Ordo Amoris Cabinet is the outcome of an artistic collaboration. A duet that Francis Acea and Diango Hernández integrate. They both graduated from the Havana Superior Institute of Design in 1991 and in 1994 respectively. The fact that they incorporate themselves into the visual arts scene -and specifically to the …

Posted: March 5th, 1996 ˑ
Filled under: collaborations, ordo amoris