Notes related to Casado Santapau

Casado Santapau programs El fin, el mar (The End, The Sea), which is Diango Hernández’s (Sancti Spíritus, Cuba, 1970) fourth exhibition at the gallery, presents a new body of work that expands and evolves his artistic practice. The exhibition features several works using different techniques, all of which echo the sobriety of undulating lines. Within this theme, which forms the backbone of the exhibition, two acrylics on canvas are displayed alongside a group of pieces that emphasize the minimalism of the wave’s gesture.

Macaparana (b. José Souza Oliveira Filho, Pernambuco, Brazil, 1952) can find in his work a clear link with primitivism and African art or, at least, in the development and influence in the aesthetic and structural aspects of the same. It might seem something totally alien, given that the basic theoretical principles of the languages of concrete art that emerge without regard in his proposal seem to delve more into the aseptic of geometric forms than in the anthropological and sacred of ethnic art, but the relationship exists precisely because of a heritage raised from the geometric as an identity.