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• 01 / 06 / 2010

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The experimentation work conducted and the exploration of new technical procedures to represent his ideas made him deepen on the content of his plastic arts creation and thus resulted in complex topics.

His unique message, moulded from materials such as clay, glass, wood, metal and manufactured paper, announces the sustained criteria that what matters in arts is not to cling on to a single line of creation, but to combine techniques in order to achieve a wider range of proposals.

Nelson Domínguez Cedeño (Santiago de Cuba, 1947) is currently one of the Cuban artists with highest international acknowledgment worldwide. His style is a prestigious mark and a sign of Cuban tradition.

This artist, distinguished for the technical quality of his works and the versatility of his creative activity, has made incursions in almost all plastic arts expressions: painting, lithography, ceramics and sculpture, with the most varied materials.

This year, the National Plastic Arts Award is added to his over forty years of success. The jury that decided to grant the most important award annually given by the Cuban Ministry of Culture and the National Plastic Arts Council was chaired by José Villa Soberón, also given the same award in 2008.

“Nelson’s work, characterized by its variety and diversity, includes painting, drawing, ceramics, sculpture and engraving, all of them of great rigor.

Experimentation, systematic creation, promotion and teaching are all present in this creator, who goes beyond the artistic canons”, was written in the jury act.

Nelson Domínguez is one of the representative figures of the first generations of talented artists after the triumph of the Revolution. He studied at the National Arts School, where he entered by midst sixties after leaving his home at the Sierra Maestra, in Eastern Cuba.

Creating without interruption has been his constant premise since the very beginning, an undertaking people can see while passing by his studio-gallery “Los Oficios”. Located in Old Havana’s Historic Centre, this is the place where his paintings, some of them of big format, as well as his sculptures and engravings, are permanently shown.

Nelson’s most recent visions are populated with neo-expressionist characters, half fantastic and half real. Mystery surrounds them as they offer an image that highlights tactile qualities.

They keep the fable-like look of the 1960’s paintings and while providing a harmony between matter and gestures by means of the combination abstract-figurative, other humanistic reflections appear.

Source:cubanow