18.5 cm
Yo tengo un sueño / I have a dream
Acrylic on canvas
100 x 135 cm
Social isolation has become in recent months, the most effective option to preserve life. This situation is not alien to the Cuban artist who, for different reasons, is often stranded on his island, in time, in his memories. ¨I have a dream¨, yes, like M. Luther King and many more. I narrate it on canvas with a language of shapes and colors. Icons from various cultures or ordinary, vulnerable people, star in the scenes in this series. The anonymous faces get closer to each other, the distance between them becomes important and the work is titled. The geisha and the mulatto. More than two women, two continents; they approach and provoke the viewer to build their own story. The soul is discovered to show itself through a kaleidoscope where colors, races, times and cultures converge in harmony. In my vision of the post-pandemic world, distances are shortened, barriers are broken and we emerge to see how the differences that unite us are revealed.
Exhibitions with this piece
PRISMA
The Colors of Crisis
From the unmitigated evocation to the less obvious metaphor: several Cuban artists have recreated the demanding circumstances we live in - the worldwide crisis that has also become personal history. The current COVID-19 pandemic has impacted dissemination and commercialization of art; likewise, it has affected the artistic process and confirmed that artists do not live in ivory towers: context always matters. ArteMorfosis - Cuban Art Platform, launched a call for artists living on the island to create artworks related to the current pandemic: the challenges, hopes, desires, alternatives, the unexpected consequences of the universal lockdown. The initiative - PRISMA The Colors of Crisis - invites Facebook users to like and promote their favorite artworks. And it is more: facilitating potential buyers and artists to discover each other and enabling acquisition and sales of artworks that will become chroniclers of these challenging times. ArteMorfosis invites you to the online exhibition: The created works constitute inspired testimony, your likes convey relevancy, your shares help increase reach, and your purchases enable the artists to endure and hope for new normality.