Artists

Many times − and this occurs in the visual arts − we are presented with a complex narrative, occasionally anachronistic, or with a synthesis that verges on minimalism and forces us to imagine that which has not been depicted, or conversely, to depict the unimaginable.

A musician and painter, concerned with the human figure and the landscape, mural art and spontaneous symbols, the effects of light and the vibration of nuances, Leopoldo Torres Agüero was, in all the stages of his production, an artist inclined to experiment with form and color.

In the book-object Negro el 10, the last collaboration between Julio Cortázar* and Luis Tomasello, the writer accurately describes the artist’s creative procedure. He states that “…

Emilio Perez was born in New York and raised in Miami, Florida. In 1990, at the age of 18, he moved back to New York to attend the Pratt Institute and returned to Miami two years later to complete his Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art at the New World School of the Arts.

The following conversation between Emilio Chapela and me centers around several paintings, photographs, and sculptures at the Henrique Faria Gallery and the Pace/MacGill Gallery in NewYork.

To “think” contemporary art demands considering the recapitulation of ideas and concepts. Post-modernity has placed in the spotlight the recycling of philosophies, stands and concerns that allow the contemporary artist to become immersed, in a more realistic and effective way, in the study of the issues that make up and define the social physiognomy of his immediate reality.