About Gilbert Rodriguez

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Cuba, 1988

Self-Taught artist.

"Communicating complex feelings and mental facilities, Miami-based Cuban artist Gilbert Rodriguez creates fantastic worlds that illustrate through landscapes and abstract portraits the subtle and infinitely complex layers of the human imagination.

The work speaks for itself and establishes with the spectator a fabric that refers to a memory lost and deformed by the passage of time. However, this can not be understood as a strictly cultural or social experience, but refers to the subjectivity of the author as few works; revaluing what confuses the imagination of the private with the shared feelings.

Wandering between Remedios Varo and Salvador Dalí, the works of Gilbert Rodriguez create an aesthetic of their own that should not be limited to one style of movement: "I still can not find a place for my art in Miami", says the artist. "On the one hand, there is the influence of Cuban art, with its oils and colors." On the other hand, there is Wyndwood and a contemporary art movement, while my works are about fantastic surrealism and for disadvantage (or advantage?) Black and white ".

- by Sergio Perez Gavilan

reporter at Vice.com