La otra orilla / The other side
Pause
Oil on canvas
61 x 45 cm
Many people were stranded on another distant shore, "the other shore" is a symbol, the illusion of a better destination, also the uncertainty of being able to reach it. But together we will be better able to achieve our dream, whatever it may be.
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.
Pausa
By Harold Lopez Muñoz
Harold López (*1977, Havana) approaches the landscape for the first time. In the Pause series, the human being is not exactly the center of the representation. But it is there, it is always there, even if it is not seen. Man is the one who sees (looks, appreciates, enjoys) those landscapes that the artist recreates. And we are not talking precisely about the viewer, the one who stands in front of a painting in a gallery or in front of a computer. We are talking about characters within the painting, creatures that the painter sometimes shows and other times glimpses, suggests, hides … There is no notion of beauty if there are no witnesses. The same happens with the peace, the calm, the peacefulness of a place. This is why Harold understands these landscapes as an extension of the human being. They are not simple scenery: the landscape can be the symbol of emotion. Or its concretion: how many times have we felt part of an environment? As if it welcomed us, integrated us, impregnated us. A few brushstrokes and a few bright colors are enough for Harold López to create complex frameworks, full of meanings. There is a density that has nothing to do with profusion or variegation. This is an artist of essences, but also of intensities. In his paintings re are always implicit presences. Something that is there, but does not materialize. The ineffable. Some would say: poetry.