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• 04 / 09 / 2009

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They are so real that some passers by, after overcoming the usual rejection inspired by daily life, get closer to touch them, to try to find out of which material they are made of. After trying, a 17 years old young boy, state with some doubts that it seems plastic covered with some porous resin.

He is not distant from truth. The painter, with such a humour and imaginative adventure, used polyurethane plastic, which is known as foam rubber. The effect is like a shot direct to the centre of the target.

I wanted to show the Kafka sense present in today’s world, indicates the author.

Smiling to the TV camera he added: The cockroaches have accompanied men since the most remote times and have resisted massive attempts to exterminate them that you might even think if one day they will become humans or vice versa.

Therefore, I was attracted to he idea of making them go up through the walls of the museum, although it could be in any other building, in a rising march, in search of oxygen, indicates. It is said that they will be the only sign of living in this planet after a nuclear disaster.

Under the title Sobrevivientes (Survivors), the group – one of the proposals of the Havana Biennial exhibition – is moving endlessly the curiosity of the public. Many people take pictures trying to catch those, two meters long, cockroaches, perpetuated by the art from another dimension of reality.

Fabelo is a reader and this can be seen in the perceptible links between his work and the literature. His series, Pequeño teatro del absurdo (Small theatre of the absurd) has an obvious precedent in the Human Comedy of Balzac, just from another vision, the plastic one, enriched with a deeply original look.

Often, animals who live close to men have received the benign and noble baptism of art. Let’s remember, those so humiliated flies that live in the literature from Aristoteles up to Antonio Machado and Augusto Monterroso.

The art bless them with a gust of poetry.

(Cubarte)