Nacimiento
Artist
Juan Ernesto FalcónMedium
PaintingMaterial
Mixed MediaDescription
Trained at the Academy of Arts in Havana, his work takes the values and canons of classical proportions for figurative art (specifically portraiture) and intervenes them with a form of tachisme, something he calls “Conscious Portraits, Identity, Mirror or Reflection.”
His message is obscured by smudges that violently or intentionally interrupt the figures, as if carelessly applying a layer of bitumen spread over the work.
The artist provides us with only partial information, provoking a sense of absence. There are details hidden from the viewer, but not from the artist who conceived the piece.
But why would he do something like that? Perhaps it’s a work that asks or challenges us about all that we can know from what we cannot see.
He has a strong command of oil and acrylic techniques on large formats and is influenced by new-generation artists as well as American abstract painters such as Kline, Pollock, and especially Rothko.
Many of his works are held in private collections abroadTry it!
