ALEJANDRO JUSTIZ
ALEJANDRO JUSTIZ
A new series of 70 Download & Donate digital drawings and a short film.
OCCASIONAL LANDSCAPES
SAMUEL RIERA
We join the artist on a journey of discovery to a world where precise, multi-layered, dimensional paper collages, often cut from fashion magazines, spring to life as the thriving inhabitants of Planeta Sandra. She manages to blend the whimsical and the sensual, the threatening and the sublime as she recounts the mythological folklore of a primordial world not that far from our own.
With an explorer’s eye and a botanist’s discipline, Sandra meticulously catalogs each Sandremios by genus and species as specimens deserving of further study.
In these collages, I deconstruct everyday forms to create new narratives.
Through the use of nature, science and whimsy, I invent new landscapes and environments in a visual language that is uniquely my own.
-Sandra Cordero
As curator and philosopher, Luis Ramaggio, observes, “As any respected expeditionist, she quietly observes and classifies. As a visionary. As a hungry expert. As a mentalist. Lurking around her own self, and wandering through her habits and personality, Sandra discovers that she herself is a world.”
We join the artist on a journey of discovery to a world where precise, multi-layered, dimensional paper collages, often cut from fashion magazines, spring to life as the thriving inhabitants of Planeta Sandra. She manages to blend the whimsical and the sensual, the threatening and the sublime as she recounts the mythological folklore of a primordial world not that far from our own.
With an explorer’s eye and a botanist’s discipline, Sandra meticulously catalogs each Sandremios by genus and species as specimens deserving of further study.
In these collages, I deconstruct everyday forms to create new narratives.
Through the use of nature, science and whimsy, I invent new landscapes and environments in a visual language that is uniquely my own.
-Sandra Cordero
As curator and philosopher, Luis Ramaggio, observes, “As any respected expeditionist, she quietly observes and classifies. As a visionary. As a hungry expert. As a mentalist. Lurking around her own self, and wandering through her habits and personality, Sandra discovers that she herself is a world.”
AILEN MALETA
RIGO (JOSÉ RIGOBERTO RODRÍGUEZ CAMACHO)
VAGABUNDUS DREAMS
Please stop by to see our new window gallery featuring several new entries to the world of Planeta Sandra. In the colorful Vagabundus' minds we find their dreams are in black & white. These works, done in quarantine, are a marked departure from the visual jubilance of her previous work.
Exhibition on view from 02/03/2021 thru 02/14/2021.
WELCOME TO THE EVERGLADES
WELCOME TO THE EVERGLADES
ON VIEW: 05/12/21 – 06/27/2021
ADRIAN RUMBAUT
Adrian was born in Cienfuegos, Cuba in 1973 and graduated from the National School of Art in Havana in 1991. He is the Founder of the Grupo Punto and the Coordenada Arte Sur Project. He is a member of the Union of Cuban Writers and Artists. He is an independent creator.
"My work addresses the relations between the image and its visual representation, in a process that allows me to travel from the painting to the object and from the latter once more to the bi-dimensional.
For years, my paintings have been torn, cut up, interwoven, enclosed, and inserted into precise spaces, integrating them into a variety of real objects. I conceive of painting as a field of plastic experiences, both virtual and objectual.
Frequently, I incorporate personal or collective references through images of the human body (nudes, portraits), evoking the paradoxical sense that exists between life and death, the real and the apparent, the superficial and the profound. Almost always I make use of counter-posed elements, which may be evident or simulated because other possibilities are hidden behind every image."
Among his personal exhibits the following stand out: Peldaños (Steps), Villa Manuela, Havana, Cuba (2016). ICONS, Bihl Haus Arts, San Antonio, USA (2013). Diagramas Pictóricos (Pictorial Diagrams), 11th Havana Biennial, Cuba (2012). Contraparte (Counterpart), Cuban Art Space, CCS, New York, USA, Havana, Cuba (2006). Entre Nos/Between Us, Cuban Art Space, CCS, New York, USA (2002).
Has participated in more than seventy collective exhibits, such as: 12th Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba (2015). Made in Cuba, Santa Mónica Art Studios, California, USA (2015) II y IV Contemporary Cuban Art Salon, CDAV, Havana (1998 and 2005). Cuban Postcards, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway. The 8th Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba (2003) and the 13th Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba (2019).
His works are found among collections in Cuba, United States, Germany, Canada, Spain, United Kingdom and Portugal, among other countries. He has received various prizes and awards such as the Diploma for Artistic Merit granted by the Higher Institute of Art (2007)
Adrian lives and works in Cienfuegos, Cuba.
FEATURED WORKS
Positive & Negative – Apple (Diptych), 2018 Cuban Currency Collage on Paper 20 ½ ”W x 24 ½” H (each)
Ecos al Paso (Echoes of Walking) Study Mixed Media on Canvas 55”W x 27 ½”H
Positive & Negative (Diptych), 2017 Cuban Currency Collage on Paper 19 ½”W x 23 ½”H (each)
Positive & Negative – Apple (Diptych), 2018 Cuban Currency Collage on Paper 20 ½ ”W x 24 ½” H (each)
VIDEO
Echoes of Walking - In Process, Matanzas, Cuba
Installation for the 13th Havana Biennial, 2019