Agustín Bejarano

Sueño cubano, 2010

Mixed media on canvas, 90 x 70 cm.


  • Nothing stands in his way; his art had taken him to the heights of Cuban art of all times. The scene of painting remains his to rule.
  • La mezcla del acrílico y el caolín proporcionan a la superficie, de las pinturas de Bejarano, el craquelado que sugiere vetustez, prosapia o cualidad de eterna a la imagen, en ese juego de espejos enfrentados donde el qué y el cómo se hacen uno.
  • Agustín Bejarano’s artistic mastery has produced from him, as greatest finding, neither a technical solution nor an aesthetic boasting of the latest minute, but such knowledge of the world that makes his an emotional encyclopedia of contemporariness.
  • Bejarano has two organic virtues: a prodigious hand and a frowning, penetrating glance that seeks to understand the world’s behavior.

[…] That man leaning on the almost infinite table dressed with a tablecloth but naked, is not crying of anguish. I prefer to be sure that, with humbleness, that same man leans arms and head and allows the strength of his prayer to grow deep inside. A prayer that no one will ever again turn his head in the face of mockery, abuse, violence, misery or pain of the people of this or any other world. A prayer to end once and for all with indifference. 1

 

1. Caridad Blanco, “Prayer,” Los ritos del silencio, Agustín Bejarano (Catalogue, Havana: Servando Art Gallery, 8th Havana Biennial, 2003), 10.