Guest artist

Rafael Fuentes Rojas

Abstract Surrealism. I’m interested in paradoxically assumed abstraction from the classical techniques of representation. I start from the gestures of automatism, from stains or accidents and – with them – I build on the lines and the tones or values of a reduced palette of colours. I seek to create a surreal image or atmosphere in which the amorphous figures, and their relationship with the background, give meaning to the spatiality and theatricality of the scene. The insinuated and suggested takes shape in dissimilar textures and volumes evoking man's own internal and external nature.

RAFAEL FUENTES ROJAS (Cauto Cristo, Cuba, 1970)

Painter and draughtsman, he graduated from Manuel del Socorro Rodríguez Elementary School of Plastic Arts (Bayamo), and from El Alba Professional Academy of Art (Holguín). He has taught Painting and Drawing and has been a member of UNEAC (Unión Nacional de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba, English “Cuban National Union of Writers and Artists”). He has held numerous solo shows, as well as participated in salons and group exhibitions in institutions in Havana, such as the National Museum of Fine Arts, and the Center for the Development of Visual Arts”, along other Cuban venues in Bayamo; Buey Arriba; Camagüey; Guantánamo; Havana; Holguín; Jiguaní; Manzanillo; and Santiago de Cuba, as well as in the Salon Figuration Critique La Defense (in Paris, France). He collaborates for different literary publications and has received various awards and recognitions. Several of his works belong to private collections in Canada, Colombia, France, Holland, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and the United States of America.

Segundas corazonadas / Second hunches