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Víctor Piverno

His poetic effusiveness is extraordinary. Víctor Piverno is a cynic person with silky hands who is abandoned to the search of sublimity, whether in the chambers of memory, in the interstices of logic or the incidental character of nature. He practices a sort of conceptualist heterodoxy in which the usual deconstructive methods are used with a lyrical precision and dexterity that remind of Surrealism: he inserts endearing and fascinating icons into our consciousness.

His artistic procedure has gone through different methods, from the manipulation of images, the intervention of small fragments of reality and cartography, to the simulation of paradoxes and unlikely situations. In each case, he deposits a note, a sign or a glow over the reality, which is capable of giving it a chameleon-like face from which extraordinary things emerge. We shall never find him angry or threatening. His artworks generate excessive tenderness, backed by the fertility of an unrivalled aesthetic skill.

On the other hand, his artistic proposal talks about the des-virtualization of all those elements in life that cling to from their eminent conventionality. Therefore, he is always transforming decadence into nature, and what is fertile into material. Perhaps this attempt of subverting the logical rhythms of civilization and its essences seeks for nothing else that releasing the concept that lies behind each object and tests its capacity, its representative efficiency, and its organic nature. So he explores the allegorical ability of the garden taxonomy in a sensually dangerous and hurtful look, of poignant ways. Or the powerful attraction of the concept of gold in the courtesan humility of foreign, loosen, undone objects.

His artistic attempt constitutes a sort of hyper-realism that demolishes, not the sensible world, but its taxonomies and our knowledge, for he knows the world is not more than a human construction, sometimes not so well intentioned; that Earth offers more than what we fancy with the reason.

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  • Without question, one of the most monumental and evocative sculptural interventions of contemporary art exhibited in the 11th Havana Art Biennial was PREié by Víctor Piverno, developed for the highly acclaimed art project Cuidad Generosa.
  • La línea se dinamiza en estas esculturas de Víctor Piverno y el movimiento se transforma en sentido esencial y metáfora.
  • Small plastic wheel offers mobility to this abstraction exercise, opening into his way other options to intercept the surrounding space.
  • A purest minimalism, almost an essentialist one, characterizes the operatory of this recognized Cuban contemporary artist.
  • La línea se dinamiza en estas esculturas de Víctor Piverno y el movimiento se transforma en sentido esencial y metáfora.
  • Dentro del amplio espectro del arte contemporáneo la propuesta de Piverno es renovadora, a la vez que declaradamente irónica.
  • Piverno’s aesthetic proposal is separated from sculpture, installation, and happening’s patterns, to set the basis of other notions about the artistic object.
  • The matter clarity, structural organicity, and line audacity are renovation patterns for such a traditional manifestation like sculpture.
  • No hay esquema preestablecido para el despliegue de las estructuras móviles de Víctor Piverno.
  • Contemporary art shows artists who push the limit in pursuit of the perfect image, feel, thought. Artists seek more than just one thing; they want to create art of everything. A structure that, in its inner development, reminds of the rhythm of a classical dance: graceful, royal, impregnable.
  • La línea se dinamiza en estas esculturas de Víctor Piverno y el movimiento se transforma en sentido esencial y metáfora.
  • Víctor Piverno is one of the avant-garde Cuban artists who challenge the entire tradition of a work of art as a unique and valuable object.
  • Víctor Piverno, talentoso exponente de las artes plásticas contemporáneas en Cuba.
  • Este performance multimedial constituye una comedida y detallada puesta en escena de un alto valor escenográfico, retruécano para la intrascendencia de una bitácora de vida.
  • Influenciado por el arte Povera y el Minimalismo, el Jardín exhibido en el Malecón en la Bienal de La Habana del joven artista cubano establece un diálogo directo con una naturaleza otra que agoniza entre tanta maleza y podredumbre.
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