Manuel López Oliva

Everything I have created, both in painting and in performance, has been the result of a sincere externalization of sensations, feelings and ideas generated out of my own subjectivity. [...] What weighs in my visual realizations is what I foresee and feel, my experiences in the public scenery and in the body, my desires, and my passions.

Visual artist and art critic, he finished his painting studies in 1969 at the National Art School. He has been a teacher of Painting in the Provincial Art School of Camagüey and in the National Art School of Havana. Until 2014 he was a teacher at the Plastic Arts Faculty, of Arts University in Cuba. He’s a member of the National Council of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba, and had been the President of the National Committee of International Association of Plastic Artists (AIAP in Spanish), and an expert in Latin-American Art for UNESCO. He has also participated in the founding of several prestigious Cuban cultural institutions, such as Ministry of Culture and the Cuban Fund of Cultural Items. Likewise, he has acted as jury in multiple events, in biennials, and in contests. He has offered conferences and courses on art in culture centers, museum, and universities in Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, France, Italy, Nicaragua, Sweden, and the United States. He has made illustrations and covers for several books and magazines.

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