Agustín Bejarano

Tan cerca, tan lejos, 2010

Mixed media on canvas, 50 x 80 cm.


  • Cuban art fights its way to the top of the art market, standing firm and attracting more attention by the second.
  • Cuban art is on the move; the art market can’t resist its thrive. Artists like Agustín Bejarano, Kcho and both Capote brothers are giving it a winning chance among art lovers.
  • From the golden age of Cuban painting comes this rootsy gem, a masterpiece which highlights among the greatest classics within art history.
  • La pericia del edificio semiótico que sostiene a cada obra es el quid del éxito de Bejarano. La precisión según la cual donde pone la mano, pone la certeza, lo está convirtiendo en una de las figuras prominentes del arte latinoamericano contemporáneo.

Time simulates having stopped and it weighs. The restlessness provokes an oppression in the chest as if one could not reach air to breathe. The door in from of me has its own flesh. One discovers its skins in the trenches left by the fractured painting, in those pieces about to fall off, about to jump on me. That door, which perhaps was once white, opens. A trace of breeze takes me to see The Rites of Silence […]. 1

 

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