Cuban painter Carlos Guzmán prepares an exhibition in Panama

By: Pedro Quiroga Jimenez

Provocative, exciting, and questioning, Cuban famous painter, draftsman and Illustrator Carlos Guzmán will exhibit in March in Panama, part of his inquisitive work on the human existence and its evolution with the pass of time.

The headquarters of Albatros Projects, located in the monumental F & F Revolution Tower of the capital will exhibit- permanently - 11 large format pictures with acrylic on canvas technique.

Alchemists, scientists, inventors, and machinery will harmonize the presentation through painting giving continuity to a previous exhibition in the Russian city of Petersburgo under the title El elixir de la vida.

In statements to Prensa Latina, the artist said the exhibition focuses on the search for the philosopher's stone and the questions that have accompanied the men as a rational human being: who are we?; where are we going?; Why are we here?

Guzmán added that next week, she will open in port Spain, capital of Trinidad and Tobago, a series of 30 canvases in small and medium format with very illustrative work using for the first time some gel with gloss providing the pieces interesting lighting effects.

This will be his first personal exhibition at the Horizons Art Gallery, after having been in other collective exhibitions in 2011 and 2013.

Guzman just exposed a set of pieces under the title Tiempo de collage synthesizing the different periods in which he has cultivated this technique in the Havana historical centre.

Carlos Guzmán (Havana, March 3, 1970) is a painting, drawing, illustration and professor graduated at the San Alejandro Academy of pPastic Arts in 1989.

He has made personal and group exhibitions and has successfully made incursion in the books illustration of various genres.

In 2012, the Cuban Gente Nueva publishing house published La vaca pinta, a book for children, which was written and illustrated by him.

Carlos Guzman’s works are in private collections, galleries and museums in Austria, Monaco, Argentina, United Kingdom, South Africa, Portugal, Brazil, Mexico, Venezuela, Spain, United States, Costa Rica, France, the Netherlands, Puerto Rico, Slovakia and Panama.

Source: PL