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Nelson Domínguez exhibition
2008.06.05～07.11
12:00～19:00 ( Closed on Mondays)
主催：PROMO-ARTE
Latin American Art Gallery
会場：GALERIA-arts space A （06.05～06.10）
PROJECT space （06.05～06.10）
PROMO-ARTE art-lobby （06.05～07.11）
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Galeria bldg view
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Exhibition view |
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～Buscadores～ |
～Escena familiar～
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～El abrazo del retorno～
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～Homenaje a Che´～ |
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～El Tesoro del Cimarron～ |
～La fiesta del espantapa´jaros～ |
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～Materna ｙ paterna～
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～Madre universal～ |
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～Mi gente, Boceto para un maleco´n bajo la luna～ |
～Simulacion～
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～El camino hacia la paz～ 204.3×488(cm) Mixed Media on canvas
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Nelson Dominguez.
The Silence of Earth.
By Tony Pinera
"Nelson Dominguez is like a chemist who looks for
reactions and tirelessly investigates
into matter. (...) In the immense laboratory, the creator
pays no attention to the limits between
artistic expressions."
After you stop looking at Nelson Dominguez's
work, and look at it again, an unmistakable
impression warns you that you are faced
with something original and even primitive.
Something unyielding, beyond style, that
seems to be of paramount importance to
art.
Absorption, deep fantasy of matter, resistance.
And if one looks through so many fulfillments
and attempts, over the abyss that separates
the now from everything that was before,
resistance acquires a metaphysical, almost
mythical dimension: it becomes the affirmative
survival that announces the final word
has not yet been said. And that, despite
all revelations, something remains within
a sacred secret, overcast by silence.
It is the silence of the earth, of the
Cuban landscape, which the artist knows
to perfection.
Nelson Dominguez (Baire. Santiago de Cuba,
1947) is like a chemist who looks for
reactions and tirelessly investigates
into matter. An experimenter who, with
talent and luck, has tried his hand at
the most varied techniques resortings
to interesting expressive resources. In
them, he finds the right words to "convey"
messages to the onlooker, availing of
any means: clay. glass, wood, metal, fabrics,
paper. It could be said, surfaces cannot
resist his artistic onslaughts.
In the immense laboratory (Art), the creator
pays no attention to the limits between
artistic expressions. For, since the beginning,
research/experimentation were a part of
his work. The mores of and the nostalgia
for his native countryside shaped his
artistic visions.
From his roots, Nelson approached the
rural world with humor, delicacy and poetry,
The natural and the human entwine in his
works, in an atmosphere of stories and
legends reminiscent of the path cleared
by Victor Manuel, Amelia Pelaez, Carlos
Enriquez, the pioneers of the Cuban avant-garde.
But he faces it with originality My memories
of the Sierra Maestra live in me because
for someone who has titled the soil since
childhood, the countryside is like the
past/present constantly within oneself:
the land, nature, are always with me wherever
I go, says the artist. At the time of
the triumph of the Revolution -he adds-
we lived in Caney de las Mercedes, in
the Sierra Maestra, and that's how I began
to study at the "Camilo Cienfuegos"
school. There was a painting workshop
there. One day, out of curiosity. I went
in. I liked it and stayed doing ceramics.
I also engraved and painted. Curiously
enough. I've kept on doing those three
things which I love deeply. Many adventures
await Nelson, who still paints with his
same, original passion. He know he has
left many miles behind him and works at
his studio like an artisan and a magician,
his back turned to every recipe designed
to tame fantasy.
Courtesy of Magazine Habanera
"(...) An artist who captures the
special essence of Cuba as a country,
as well as one who understands the potency
and evolution of art, and wo has the capacity
to sense the inherent beauty in people
from all times and places."
Manuel Lopez Oliva, painter
and art critics
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Profile
Born in Baire, Santiago de
Cuba, September 23, 1947.
Studied at the Cubanacan National Art School
(1965-1970) and taught there (1970-1985). Professor
and head of thePainting Department of the College
of Arts (ISA) and faculty member of its Engraving
Department.
Member of the Union of Writers and Artists of
Cuba (UNEAC) and of the International Association
of Plastic Artists (AIAP).
Was presented with the National Cultural award
and the Alejo Carpentier award. |
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