Iván Capote

Exergo (Toss’ Lost), 2011

Mixed media on cardboard, glass and wooden drawer, 89 x 66 cm.


  • It’s hard not to admire Cuban artists as they battle against the odds, lack of market opportunity, low funding. But the talent is unsurpassable. The sudden and unstoppable advance of artists like Iván and Yoan Capote is starting to attract important art collectors and art galleries’ attention.
  • Iván Capote, the Cuba’s # 1 contemporary conceptual visual artist nowadays.
  • Cuba’s # 1 contemporary visual artist
  • The oldest Capote brother is one of the Cuban artists who has been more constant in the use of verbal language as a starting point for the production of a visual discourse.
  • This proficient visual artist has exploited in many of his artworks the plastic potential of the graphic markings of verbal language, but at the same time has also exploited the arbitrary character of the linguistic sign, thus through the use of visual games doing and undoing meanings with words.