NEW YORK, NY.- The Directors of Marlborough Chelsea presents an exhibition featuring the contemporary Cuban artists Abel Barroso, Roberto Diago, Kcho, William Pérez, and Ernesto Rancaño on view from May 19 through June 18, 2011. The extensive exhibition is held on both the first and second floors of the Marlborough Chelsea Gallery and includes works varying in size and media, from intimately-sized etchings on acrylic board to large-scale sculptural works. Each of these five artists addresses life in the city of Havana with their work, exploring the paradoxes associated with inhabiting a place with a magnificent recent past and an impoverished, yet culturally prosperous present. What is unique about this group of artists is that they all thrive and produce work in Cuba, and the challenges they face there inform their art. Each of these artists is operating in the precarious space of a politically charged environment,