DIONNYS MATOS
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
WELCOME TO THE EVERGLADES
WELCOME TO THE EVERGLADES
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.
ON VIEW: 05/12/21 – 06/27/2021
VIDEOS
DIONNYS MATOS
Dionnys Matos was born in Holguín in 1991. He grew up near the sea and the countryside, his love for nature grew significantly, developing in him an immediate sensitivity to it; his interest in how he saw the world inclined him in a general way towards art. He started in 2006 at the Professional Academy of Plastic Arts "EL ALBA" where he was trained as an artist. After graduating, Dionnys focused on the audiovisual as a tool to create social questions and emphasize life and death; a theme which is rooted throughout his work both plastic and audiovisual. He has won several awards on the island, such as the ICAIC Youth Exhibition, Almacén de la Imagen, TV Serrano, and Havana Time. He currently lives in Bogotá, Colombia and Havana, Cuba working on new plastic projects that promote recycling, raise awareness of environmental care and make an almost poetic resistance against excessive consumption.
“The environment. Which is a theme that comes to my work in the form of awareness. Nature moves me, it affects me, from a small piece of garbage on the beach to the excessive consumption and its consequences (…) I have the conviction that a change can be generated from art. And that is what I want to do with my work.”
FEATURED WORKS
Landscape of a Burning Forest, 2022 Acrylic Paint injected into Bubble Wrap Each Panel: 31” W x 62.9” H
Still Life I, 2022 Acrylic Paint injected into Bubble Wrap 39” W x 55” H
Chair No. 04, 2020 Acrylic on Watercolor Paper 9"W x 11"H
Landscape of a Burning Forest, 2022 Acrylic Paint injected into Bubble Wrap Each Panel: 31” W x 62.9” H
EXHIBITIONS
Dionnys Matos
Take A Minute: A Show of Resilience
February 17 – March 31, 2021
ART FAIRS
Zonamaco
Mexico City
Ejes Section
February 9 – 13, 2022
PRESS
HYPERMEDIA MAGAZINE
Dionnys Matos:
"The way to show the beautiful"
April 13, 2022
DESIGN INDABA
Artists Wage War on Waste
DESIGN INDABA
April 15, 2021
INHABITAT
Artist draws attention to
the single-use plastic crisis.
KC MORGAN
April 1, 2021
RIALTA
All artists go to the city of skyscrapers.
A sample of Dionnys Matos
SINDY RIVERY
February 26, 2021
