La suplica / The plea
Drawing, Collage on paper
103 x 58 cm
The uncertainty, not knowing or imagining the destiny of the human being in the coming years, just looking into the void looking for answers and solutions, as a plea humanity from isolation and loneliness asks, prays and hopes, a future where we return to take us by the hand, to kiss, to embrace and to return to be part of the immense multitude of our planet. In order to achieve an adequate visual presentation of the idea, I have resorted to a series of creative resources: the choice of portrait as the main genre of representation, the elaboration of the drawings using the scratchboard method helps to highlight the expressive and dramatic density of the images that make up the whole. On the other hand, the relationship established between the portraits of small formats, made in black and white, and the subsequent museographic manipulation of all of them in a conglomerate effect, of integration; It contributes to granting a sense of metaphorical priority to that correspondence - not always open, fluid - between individual and collective aspirations.
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.
La espera
Alejandro Lescay
La incursión de Alejandro Lescay en el retrato no tiene como objetivo primordial la sobredimensión psicológica o estética del sujeto, sino el establecimiento de una alegoría abierta, diversificada, sobre su ubicación en contexto; la conformación de un inventario testimonial; la defensa de un juicio de valor acerca de la comunidad y la época histórica en las que se inserta como autor, y con las que se siente profundamente comprometido. David Mateo