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Zaida del Río

Zaida del Río

  • Posted on May 26, 2017
  • /Under Artist
Between Lucidity and Frenzy Zaida del Río’s career has been consistently frenetic and ascending. Critics and simple observers, trained pupils and people just beginning to look into the world of art (each with his experience) find in the work of this Cuban not only convincing reasons for admiration and brilliance, but, above all, the aesthetically consolidated projection of a sensibility. From near or from afar, in one medium or another (painting, drawing, engraving, ceramics and performance), Zaida has achieved what is for many others denied: a distinctive imagery, a mark of identity. Throughout…Read more …
Zaida del Río – WELTEN ERFAHREN

Zaida del Río – WELTEN ERFAHREN

Bird-People The Principle of the Feminine and Masculine in the Work of Zaida del Río Dolores Denaro The painting’s surface is completely covered with leaves, stems and black tendrils. In addition, blue and yellow are dominant in the painting Vitrales, 2016, (Fig. p. 21). The canvas has been painted in a transparent manner, which allows the vision of the light support, and the composition has the appearance of being pierced by the light. On the left side of the painting, using well-defined, also black lines, the leaves and stems form two naked, kneeling…Read more …
Onay Rosquet – UNBOXING

Onay Rosquet – UNBOXING

Vernissage: March 16, 2017, 6 p.m. - 9 p.m. Onay Rosquet (Havanna, *1987) knows that objects inherently convey meaning. The young artist constructs stories by painting collected objects which he places in a new seemingly random context. These precise arrangements do not originate unintentionally, but are the outcome of a sensual an intellectual selection process. UNBOXING shows crates full of daily objects, which through what they have witnessed and though their silent presence enter into a dialogue with the spectator. https://youtu.be/1UGaky0Cqj0Read more …