José Bedia, Nkuyo Campo Nfinda, 2015, acrylic on canvas, 120 ½ x 70.” I have spent several years trying to capture the concept of “Art” as a whole. I have never been able to. There are always areas that escape me, intelligible ideas that exceed the limits of my research, however extensive it may be. Perhaps for that reason, I have had to accept, little by little, what others had already coined before: “a picture is worth a thousand words”. However, after all is said and done, I have also been shown that humans are conceptual, idiomatic beings, who like to understand and synthesize everything that surrounds them. Hence, if it were necessary to find an accepted definition for art, it would coi
ReynerioTamayo, Cuba vs USA, 2014, acrylic on canvas, 54.7 x 78.7.” Rodrígrez Collection Reynerio Tamayo es un grandísimo pintor, pero, además, es un pintor cachondo. Nunca sabemos que va primero, si el chiste o su arte, porque es una mezcla homogénea e inteligente de ambas. Quien lo conozca personalmente sabrá que te hará reír con tanto entusiasmo, que te provocará una suerte de trastorno temporomandibular. Te pondrá los nervios y los músculos en tensión, te generará lesiones, casi fracturas, en mandíbulas y cabeza y hasta lagrimeo en los ojos, pero él no parará, casi que podrías morir. Su creatividad para el humor no tiene límites, debe ser algo sobrenatural que le ocurrió cuando su madre
