Osvaldo Gonzalez Aguiar, 32, Havana, Cuba.
A Lemon Tree, 2014.
About:
Osvaldo is a creator that uses the decomposition, (pictorial, spatial or subjective) as linguistic resource for develop his work. Hence his strong connection with the abstraction, to the extent that what we see is far from any realistic or narrative reference. His images are composed, in front of our eyes, as an alternative reality, perhaps dreamed. It is the juxtaposition (in occasions, apparently unconnected) of elements with different origins, what permit the final consummation of the artwork as an autonomous entity, different in essence, of any of its parts. In the same way that we look back to our past as a fractional and intermittent phenomenon, in which smells, passages and persons allow the experiential reconstruction, so Osvaldo structures his work. He incorporates objects, spaces, moments…all of them small pieces of the puzzle that is our memory, our life.
La Habitacion Doble 2013.
His preference for the disarticulation (and re-articulation) of pictorial fragments, his obsession for the multiplicity of looks and points of view over one object (also for its polysemy), relates him with the design universe, which is interested in causing astonishment with things that we already know. Even without intention, his works speaks, through the pictorial strategies and its specificities, about the relativity that crosses all experiential, subjective and transitional process. The constant quotation of Art History referents reinforce this idea, meanwhile the used intertext is accommodated to new expressive functions, to contemporary sceneries in which, obligatory, plays another rolls.
La Fiesta (installation view).
El Camino-de-las-piedras-amarilles, 2013.
(from press release F5 Gallery)