Thursday October 24, 2024 | 5:00 – 8:00pm
Location: Cuban Artists Fund Studio, 208 E 51st St, 2nd Floor, New York, NY (map)
Please join us for an open studio event of the RU resident artist Yohy Suárez at the Cuban Artists Fund Studio.
“My work is defined by the strange attraction for figures trapped in pieces of stories, destined to relive themselves as a loop. They are narratives inspired by nonsense as an aesthetic category, told by grotesque and satirical characters, irreverent humor, eroticism in extremis, and several moments of pure fun.
Architecture – experienced as a story – is one of my main conceptual motivations. As if I had participated in the reality of a bygone era, having lived it as an absurdity. Many things happen simultaneously in these scenarios – inspired by common historical events and reinterpreted with an untamed weirdness. Inexplicable events that are shown in pictorial descriptions, which continue to seem plausible, despite the distorted aesthetic forms.
How does one know if one is dreaming when everything seems so real? And how will I know, when I wake up, that I am really awake? – In my work this is asked beyond wandering through conceptual twists and turns, with a strict sense of spontaneity, as a way of seeing the world.” – Yohy Suárez
Click above to see images from the opening reception.
About
Yohy Suárez (Havana, 1989) is a Cuban visual artist who graduated with honors from the San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts (2010). His paintings and drawings – with a language of expressive urgency – are based on the anthropological value of the image and his way of dialoguing with unusually described architectural scenarios. He has the indisputable stamp of a marked and very personal aesthetic, worked with natural pigments and charcoal.
His work has been presented in personal and collective exhibitions in Italy, Panama, the United States, Cyprus, Spain and Cuba. Yohy Suárez is the winner of the Special Prize of the Arte Laguna competition in Venice 15, 2021, and The International Prize Caravaggio, 2018, Milan, Italy.
His work is part of important art collections in Panama, Spain, Germany, the United States, Italy, Argentina, Cyprus, France, and Portugal.
This program benefits from the support of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Cuban Artists Fund.
