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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …