Presentation of Ciro Quintana-Ciro Art

Ciro Quintana is one of the major figures of Cuban art of the last thirty years. Part of a legendary generation that emerged in Cuba in the early 80s (he was the creator of Pure Group), which revolutionized Cuban Art and most innovative art produced in Latin America in those years (allied brilliantly kitsch, religion, politics, sociology and postmodernism).

The Art of Ciro Quintana (jokingly calling itself Ciro Art) is a mosaic made of a neo pop group of paintings, drawings, sculptures, texts, where art, history, politics, social facts are evoked in a facility hyperbolic, chaotic, extra-temporal and intensely rococo. His work is a reflection on the relationship between art and life, reading the very process of creation, a constant dialogue between the idea of ​​a work and its processing mechanism, in the end, falls into a visual trap scenery catch the viewer. Ciro Quintana created a whole Neo historicist trend in Cuban art appropriating and recycling the national iconography (Cuban) and West, particularly the former socialist countries and the United States. Last offshoot of modernism, is also one of the most interesting artists of the postmodern period as its originality is not reduced to the sum of their inspirations, is to have deepened the prodigious resources of the visual image and the figurative have renewed an intensity subversive.
His work is part of prestigious collections such as the National Museum of Fine art in Havana, Ludwig Forum for international Arts in Aachen, Germany ,Peter Ludwig Collection in Cologne, Germany, the Museum of Leipzig, Germany, the Museum of Modern Art of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, the Museum of Pori Taiden ,Finland...

François Vallée