Carlos Quintana

Nightmare, 2014

Oil on canvas, 200 x 250 cm.


  • Behind a pair of hands and a moistly dripping, watchful sex-eye lives a dangerous ability to gracefully ensnare a story told by the collector.
  • Una mirada transversal a la obra de este original artista, Carlos Quintana, nos devuelve la mágica cosmovisión de un universo original, caótico, lírico, voluble, violento, pleno de obsesiones recurrentes y desmesuradas.
  • This Cuban artist is one of the last great painters and visual narrators of these times.

[…] Carlos Quintana’s narrative is not rooted in traditional logic, he always makes an approach from non-traditional patterns: the scream, the question, the moan, and the colossal expression of pleasure, altogether being a ballad with technically flawless chords, based on the foundation of an academic education that he exhibits, relaxed, clever, and beaming, recording the moral of the story with his “his other orthography” written on the canvas that drew him to his original idea […]. 1

 

1. Wendy Guerra, “Living Literature,” Obsessions (Catalogue, Berlin: Bötzow Edition, 2012), 51.