VERNISSAGE: October 1, 2022 6 – 8 pm 8 – 11 pm 

LOCATION: Ideal Glass Studios 9 West 8th St. New York NY 10011

EXHIBIT: October 2 – 7, 2022   |  HOURS: 2 – 6 pm

Carlos Quintana is a contemporary Cuban artist known for his expressive paintings which meld collective memory, fantasy, and personal symbolism. Often featuring bald figures, Quintana’s work shifts between grotesqueness and beauty while exploring the formal properties of paint. Combining and hybridizing iconography of East and West, Carlos Quintana presents us with a feverish dreamlike universe where diversities and similarities appear to be magically suspended and balanced. Quintana’s knowing and masterful use of color enhances every aspect of his vision as does his strong yet understated skill in drawing that allows his figures to powerfully emerge with unnerving serenity from any surrounding chaos. Carlos Quintana’s works show the influence of paradigmatic artists such as Schnabel, Baselitz, Kiefer, and Goya. His pictorial works include disturbing codes and discourses, as well as an almost obsessive interest in bearing witness to the offensive passages that show the violence and the filth of everyday life. He usually takes classic historical art scenes to represent daily conflicts, and his tendency to use a palette of solid colors adds a symbolic character to his work, which is full of cultural references.

Since the early 1990s, the artist has gone on to show in Mexico, Spain, the United States and Austria. Quintana’s works are held in the collections of the Rubin Museum of Art in New York, the National Museum of Fine Art in Havana, and the Gary Nader Collection in Miami, His works are part of the collections of the National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana; the Gilbert Brownstone Foundation in Paris, France; the National Museum of Fine Arts in Panama City, Panama; as well as numerous private collections around the world.

Some of his most notable solo exhibitions include “Images of a Place that Never Existed” at the National Arts Club in New York NY, 2015; “Obsessions” at Atelierhaus in Berlin, Germany, 2012; “Nada (Nothing)” “El mundo de la verdad”, at Vatican Museums, Piazza della Cancelleria. Roma, “In Finito” at Palazzo Loredan, Instituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, San Marco, Venice. Carlos Quintana is recognized as one of the most important figures in a new generation of Cuban artists. His recent exhibitions at the Vatican Museum, Palazzo della Cancelleria and the 2019 Biennale Venezia in the Palazzo Loredan have established his international reputation.

Text by © Pan American Art Projects

EXHIBIT: October 2 – 7, 2022   |  HOURS: 2 – 6 pm

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