Andrey Quintana
Andrey Quintana: Exploring irony and reflection in contemporary art.
“Using irony as a primary tool, my art seeks to highlight significant issues affecting our world. Inspired by the personal experience of family members in war conflicts, I question violence and power in our contemporary society. Through my work, I intend to generate reflection and analysis on issues such as violence and ecology, transforming images and codes related to these issues into meaningful representations. My goal is to express a position in favor of the preservation of life and the universal right of all living beings to life. With a captivating and provocative approach, I invite the audience to reflect on the power structures that perpetuate violence and environmental degradation in our world today.”
Víctor Ojeda
Víctor Ojeda: Exploring spirituality through landscape.
“In my work, landscape acquires a profound meaning as a space for personal search and meditation. I explore landscape as a dramaturgy that relates space, time and spirituality, stimulating reflection and revelation. My painting is characterized by an elemental form, without superfluous or missing elements, like a compact rock. I use the landscape as a resource to symbolically represent diverse territories, from the physical to the nostalgic, romantic, psychological, social and historical. These landscapes are constructions that reflect my personal will to create a space of essential reflection from individuality. In my work, the landscape becomes a vehicle to explore spirituality and stimulate introspection.”
Rigoberto Mena
Rigoberto Mena: Exploring depth: a visual journey.
“I am an artist imbued in the intellectual process of art, exploring the sinuosity of space and depth with an amalgam of architectural elements. My work stands as a synthesis between the analytical gaze of an architect and the expressive dexterity of an abstract virtuoso. Through a fluid visual vocabulary, I transform the rigid confines of urban landscapes into dynamic and evocative compositions. My presence in galleries and museums around the globe, from China to the United States, has chiseled my legacy as one of the visionaries of contemporary Cuban art. My work has found refuge in renowned collections, including the National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana, where my artistic expression has been enshrined for posterity. My purpose is to perpetuate the dialogue between form and emotion, transcending the limits of the canvas to inspire and captivate the viewer with my unique vision of the world.”
Arián Írsula
Arián Írsula: Exploring utopian worlds through the creation of fractal images.
“My series “The Maker of Worlds” is inspired by the utopian creation of imaginary worlds, starting from the discovery and elaboration of fractal images and abstract surfaces related to cosmology, geography and cartography. Through the capture of microscopic images and the use of conventional and experimental techniques, such as the decomposition of matter, I create visual landscapes that defy the perception of scale. These images invite the viewer to reflect on the future and the continuity of human existence, exploring ideal worlds filled with beauty, happiness and the possibility of new forms of life. My goal is to stimulate imagination and dialogue about the possibility of alternative, utopian realities.”
Henry Crespo
Henry Crespo: Pictorial explorations from freedom.
“My work stems from a need to experience painting from a complete state of freedom, without any ties in terms of subject matter (to what), attending more to the needs of internal expression, to that inner world of mutable episodes and images that remain contained and earn the right to their own nothingness, from repetition as a natural and processual logic, which begins in the very exercise of searching and reliving in memory that exact image, fleetingly revealed by a sound, a memory, a dream or a specific aesthetic experience. Hence, often, within the same work process, I feel that I must try different things where I can experiment with the same idea. At that point, I tend to work on several things at the same time, and that is when I find myself building a group of paintings like “Cricket’s song”, or “Soot” … The group idea is a method of working, because I expect the group to break up, and each painting to separate and exist on its own.”
Eurico Borges
Eurico Borges: Living Expressions in Painting.
“Through my paintings, I reveal the unique spirit of Cuban culture, fusing influences from Spain, Africa and America into evocative narratives. My works are a visual journey full of color and vitality, exploring the identity and history of my country. I immerse myself in this rich cultural background with brushes as connecting tools, creating a dialogue between past and present. Each canvas is a window into the Cuban soul, capturing moments and emotions that resonate with the viewer. My goal is to share the richness and diversity of the Cuban experience through an artistic expression that transcends borders and connects with humanity as a whole.”
Bogdan Chaikovsky
Bogdan Chaikovsky: Reinterpreting repetition.
“Bogdan Chaikovsky appropriates and reinterprets a series of great works of painting in order to create a re-reading of these, making use of the obsessive repetition of the same element in low resolution, or putting the point of interest and oversizing details through drawings and paintings that would take a back seat in the original work.
In his creative process, Tchaikovsky transfers, by means of a silkscreen, in the style of Warhol’s “Little Electric Chair”, and with a weft of semitones used by other Pop art authors, the same element over and over again, substituting in his case the silkscreen ink for paint. In this way, the screen is damaged very quickly and the image loses its fidelity along the canvas. As if from a series of film frames that, in an irregular way, melt to black, thus condemning the image itself through its reproduction.”
Ernesto Benítez
Ernesto Benítez: Exploring the alchemy of art and the cultural wound.
“With a discourse that starts from a symbolic opening to the infinity of all the possible in a conscious attempt to religare in anthropological terms (especially psychological, social and cultural), the aesthetic proposal of Ernesto Benítez intends -like alchemy in its time- to channel, if this were possible, those systems or liturgical practices derived from the processes of art itself as tools of self-recovery, self-discovery and reconquest, using them from his vital experience inserted in a globalized and excludingly polarized world, fragmented? fragmented.
From a formal point of view, Benítez produces his work in multiple media, including mixed media painting, installation, drawing, collage, video, photography and digital media. The materials, many of them derived from fire and its direct action (on containers of history, knowledge or knowledge in the West) and the processes employed are especially aimed at digging into the cultural wound. In such a way that, like Heraclitus, his work could be summarized in a few words: I have sought myself”.
Ernesto Revueltas
Ernesto Revueltas: Pictorial poetry and multidisciplinary explorations.
“This variant of abstraction is to express my particular vision of the world and its insertion in a polemic universal and contemporary context. There is in these works, yes, that vocation to unveil imaginary forms, often supported by organic motifs. Day by day those interiors and creatures flourish, delivering a defined, clear cosmos, always in search of a term that fuses life. I am part of those moments of realization, of man in his infinite search and incessant becoming. My entire plastic work shouts it, as it transmits the certainties and the materialization of dreams. So is my painting like the air of my days, without whose breath nothing would be. It is the testimony of its fertile passage through the world, of its indomitable transforming power, it bears witness to life, a commitment to share what is dreamt and what is glimpsed”.
Sayae
Sayae: Explorations in Graphic Narratives.
“In my artistic foray, I delve into the depths of thought and creation, exploring the sinuosities of graphic narratives and their extensions, while unraveling the intricate link between bodies and affects. My approach is directed towards the construction of a dreamlike cosmos through a narrative architecture meticulously woven in the threads of transmediality. In the evolution of my career, art becomes a multidisciplinary melting pot where graphics, painting, sculpture and digital media converge, interweaving concepts and forms in a unique conceptual fabric. From this perspective, my work emerges as a constantly evolving manifesto of expression, a symphony of colors and forms that give voice to the dreams and emotions that inhabit the inner universe of the human being.”
