Timothy Taylor Gallery

Exhibitions

• Current
• Forthcoming
• Past

Artist Statement:

‘American Chronicles is the name of my very first exhibition that took place while I was still in Cuba. These were titled American Chronicles I, II, III, IV, etc…, I even lost track of numbers and I would not know which number corresponds to the present one. These exhibits consist of mostly drawings in which I played the role of an old chronicler of the American Indies, but on my own fashion. As chronicles, most of all, I find there is history as well as reference to the past. There are also texts and old pictures, mostly with an anthropological meaning. These may either general or particularly related to both, America or Cuba, my homeland. History, Anthropology, Colonialism, Religion (native religion or afro Cuban religion), transculturation, acculturation, imposition, etc. Thereby, the conjunction of these elements result in something close to a personal old manuscript to which I constantly add new pages. Synthesizing, I could say this is an obsession with the past, which holds an answer to what is exactly going on at present times.’

Biography:

1959 Born in La Habana, Cuba
1979 Attended the Academia de Artes Plásticas “San Alejandro” in La Habana
1981 Studied in the Instituto Superior de Arte in La Habana
1993 Established in Miami

Selected Individual Exhibitions:

1990 Recent Work. Forest City Gallery, London
1991 Drawings. Frumkin / Adams Gallery, New York Sueño Circular. Cultural Center Ninart, Mexico D.F. and Ramis Barquet Gallery, Monterrey
1992 Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias. Museum of Contemporary Art Carrillo Gil, Mexico D.F. El hombre de hierro. Curare Gallery, Mexico D.F. Frumkin / Adams Gallery, New York
1993 Bestiario. Fernando Quintana Gallery, Bogotá El viaje de Bedia y Caplan a Suecia. Kulturhuset, Stockholm La isla en peso. Nina Menocal Gallery, Mexico D.F.
1994 Frederic Snitzer Gallery, Coral Gables , Florida Frumkin / Adams Gallery, New York
1995 Mundele quiere saber. Frederic Snitzer Gallery, Coral Gables , Florida
1997 Crónicas Americanas. Monterrey Museum of Contemporary Art (MARCO) La isla , el cazador y la presa. Sites, Santa Fe, New Mexico

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