Flavio Garciandía
Flavio Garciandía is one of Cuba’s leading and most influential artists and is regarded as one of the fathers of Central and South American conceptual art. The artist was a key figure on the vibrant Cuban art scene of the late 1970s and 1980s. In 1984 he was a co-founder of the Havana Biennal.
In his paintings he makes a profound connection with his native Cuba: through the way his works unite a range of postmodern styles, his creative output indirectly adapts and reflects Cuban culture as a fusion of diverse influences and terms of references. The artist cites the history of modern art: his colourful compositions adapt a variety of stylistic directions, from cubism to conceptualism and abstract expressionism. The resulting artistic signature is one that the artist himself describes, somewhat tongue-in-cheek, as New Tropical Abstraction – playing on the meteorological term Tropical Depression, which refers to a group of thunderstorms under a closed cloud cover.
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acrylic on canvas
39.37 x 37.4 in (100 x 95 cm) -
acrylic on canvas
32.68 x 30.31 in (83 x 77 cm) -
acrylic on canvas
70.87 x 70.87 in (180 x 180 cm) -
acrylic on canvas
74.41 x 74.41 in (189 x 189 cm) -
acrylic on canvas
33.46 x 66.93 in (85 x 170 cm) -
acrylic on canvas
81.1 x 94.09 in (206 x 239 cm) -
acrylic on canvas
19.69 x 15.75 in (50 x 40 cm) -
acrylic on canvas
83.86 x 48.03 in (213 x 122 cm) -
acrylic on canvas, 2 parts
17.72 x 144.09 in (45 x 366 cm) -
acrylic on canvas
58.66 x 58.27 in (149 x 148 cm)