Pulse Contemporary Art Fair. Cuban face in the crowd

Miami.- Making a comparison with the famous film by Orson Welles, in the title of this work, the meeting with the Cuban artist Armando Mariño (Santiago de Cuba, 1968) in full Pulse Contemporary Art Fair of Miami Beach, was like receiving an air of freshness, color and Cubanism by the way of this other important fair of the Week of Art.

The artist was represented by the Coates & Scarry Gallery in London (England) where a piece of Cuba emerged, since he studied at the School of Art in his hometown, between 1987 and 1992, and his works are characterized in these times by the luminosity of the color, that arise from his paintings. The drawing, the basis of his creativity and that characterized him in previous stages, is still present by sweetening or silhouetting the figures. Precisely within the painting figures are still moving, which in some cases remind us of the child who was retracing the beautiful geography of the East of the country: frolicking in rivers, climbing mountains, breathing in that intricate vegetation full of greens, yellows - by the force of our sun-, the blue of the sea and the sky that accompanies him in his pictorial adventures and in his life wherever he goes. The imprint of Cubanism is very strong. And social issues continue to encourage their creativity.

There is no doubt that the landscape has influenced his work that has always been reflective, with a strong internal projection, where the figure cannot be absent from the natural environment that its pieces that have been exhibited by the world: Paris, Ontario, Copenhagen, Madrid, Amsterdam ..., and in Cuba. Everything that happened or crossed in a moment before his artistic retinas is alive in the personal imagery of the creator who is close to the social, the ecology, economic crises, all linked and breathing in a very personal way in his work.

He paints in oil and watercolor, always making sketches on paper - a medium that characterized him as a skilled and excellent draftsman in its early stages, and then take them to those immense fabrics that bring the traces of the Cuban culture where our palms also appear and other symbols that go wherever they go vibrate with him, as part of a very strong DNA that catches the eyes -as here these days- where he adds and multiplies admirers who come by the symbolic images, the invoice, the creativity and that color that comes from our Sun and nature that is illuminated with a singular intensity and makes us special. This is his painting, Cuban like him.