Rafael Soriano : the artist as mystic / Elizabeth Thompson Goizueta, editor ; translators, Vicente Echerri & Ileana Fuentes = Rafael Soriano : el artista como místico / Elizabeth Thompson Goizueta, editor ; traductores, Vicente Echerri & Ileana Fuentes
Soriano, Rafael 1920-2015 Criticism and interpretation Search this
Physical description:
181 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 23 x 31 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Exhibition catalogs
Criticism, interpretation, etc
Date:
2017
20th century
Notes:
Published in conjunction with the exhibition held at the McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, Boston, Massachusetts, January 30-June 4, 2017; the Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California, June 29-October 1, 2017; and the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, October 28, 2017-January 28, 2018.
Contents:
Rafael Soriano : invention and drama = Rafael Soriano : invención y drama / Roberto Cobas Amate -- The heart that lights from inside : Rafael Soriano's struggle for his artistic vision = La luz que en el corazón ardía : la lucha de Rafael Soriano por su visión artística / Elizabeth Thompson Goizueta -- Fragmented body and fragmented self : the theme of exile in the neo-surrealist works of Rafael Soriano = El cuerpo y el yo fragmentados : el tema del exilio en las obras neosurrealistas de Rafael Soriano / Claude Cernuschi -- Rafael Soriano and his generation : exile and transcendence = Rafael Soriano y su generación : exilio y trascendencia / Alejandro Andreus -- "Where the intimate and the cosmic converge" : art as icon = "Donde lo íntimo y lo cósmico confluyen" : el arte como ícono / Roberto S. Goizueta
Summary:
Cuban painter Rafael Soriano (1920-2015) was an acclaimed master of geometric abstraction and a global figure in the twentieth-century art world. His work resonated with such international artists of Latin American origin as Roberto Matta, Rufino Tamayo, and Wifredo Lam. As a result of the revolution in Cuba in 1959, Soriano left the country in 1962 for the United States. The effect of the Cuban revolution on his art as well as his aesthetics in general are the focus of this book, an unprecedented examination of his entire oeuvre. Featuring more than ninety paintings, pastels, and drawings, this bilingual English-Spanish catalog begins with a contextual analysis of Soriano's relationship to the Cuban avant-garde and his position within the emerging mid-century modernists. Essays then trace his evolving styles, examining his work through the lens of surrealism and European and Latin American transnational aesthetics. The idea of exile and struggle is a leitmotif and is framed within questions of transcendence and spirituality.
