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Josignacio | |
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 Josignacio in his Miami art studio. | |
| Born | Josė Ignacio Sánchez-Rius 24 October 1963 Havana, Cuba |
| Nationality | Cuban-American |
| Known for | Plastic Paint Medium, Neo Figurative Art, Abstract Expressionism, Abstract art |
| Notable work | The Music is Timeless The Three Wisest Monkeys Sweet Adagio in Solo Guitar The 3 O'Clock Red Fish The Virtual Key Rhapsody Blue |
| Movement | Contemporary art "Cuban Generation of the 80s" |
| Awards | Hortt 38 Best In Show '96, 1st Place in EVMCC '79 and '80 |
Josignacio (b. José Ignacio Sánchez-Rius, in Havana, Cuba, on October 24, 1963) is a Cuban Contemporary artist and author.[1][2] He is among the most significant living contemporary Cuban and Latin American artists due to his career auction records, paint medium innovations, and association with notable cultural events, venues, and celebrity figures in the United States and Cuba.
He emerged in Cuba's controversial, "La Generacion de los 80s,"[3][4][5][6][7] the 80s generation of contemporary Cuban art,[8] also referred to as New Cuban Art. This cultural decade in Cuba contrasted a country in transition, influenced artistic debates both at home and abroad, and began the generation's collaboration with “Volume 1" [9] - a commitment to non-government mandated artistic expression. They included Rubén Torres Llorca, José Bedia Valdés, Ricardo Rodriguez Brey, Juan Francisco Elso, Rogelio López Marín (Gory), Gustavo Pérez Monzón,[10] José Manuel Fors, Leandro Soto Ortiz, Israel León, Tomás Sánchez and Carlos Alfonzo.[11]
In the second half of the decade, other artistic groups were formed, including 4 x 4, Grupo Hexágono, Arte Calle, Grupo Provisional, the duet René Francisco Rodríguez and Eduardo Ponjuán González [12] and ABTV. Grupo Puré, another new wave of young artists, graduates of the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA),[13] included Ana Albertina Delgado Álvarez, Adriano Buergo, Ciro Quintana.[14] Josignacio first gained artistic recognition in Cuba as a key figure of this period and was widely exhibited in Havana galleries during the 1980s.[15]
In 1984, Josignacio created the "Plastic Paint Medium" of art by mixing epoxy resins with oil colors and other pigments, resulting in a hard, glossed, 3D finish, a method which would become his identifiable style.[16] Josignacio is the first living contemporary Latin American artist to have an artwork surpass US$3 million at auction.[17][18]
His work has been exhibited in Cuba, Europe, the Northeast United States, and South Florida.[19][20][18]
- ^ "Josignacio". www.mutualart.com. 2023 MutualArt Services, Inc. Retrieved 20 March 2023.
- ^ Sanchez-Rius, Josignacio (2013). Las Lágrimas del Cocodrilo (in Spanish). Create Space Publishing. ISBN 9781481882958. Retrieved 20 April 2023.
- ^ Geysell Cisneros (June 6, 2017). ""The Prodigious Decade", una mirada a la generación de los 80". Tribuna de la Habana. Retrieved June 6, 2017.
- ^ Adriana Herrera Téllez (April 22, 2010). ""Paradojas del arte cubano de la generación disidente de los 80" In the writing of the history of Cuban art of the second half of the 20th century, the mention of an exhibition, mythical for its foundational role in the emergence of artistic contemporaneity, is unavoidable: Volume I" (PDF). Revista Sin Frontera. Retrieved October 28, 2018.
- ^ Conexión Cubana (May 22, 2016). ""Historof Art in Cuba" The emancipation of the 80s". Cuban Fine Art. Retrieved October 28, 2018.
- ^ Janet Batet (February 27, 2018). ""La generación de los 80's en el Arte Cubano – El contexto" To understand how what is later called the Generation of the 80s is conceived in the history of Cuban art, one must take into account an institutional condition that is almost always forgotten in relation to Cuban culture". Arte Mundo Latino. Retrieved October 28, 2018.
- ^ Alfredo Triff (August 26, 2018). ""La generación descarriada de los 80" For these misguided artists of the generation of the 80 the situation is still promising. The very fact of its marginality and aesthetic diversity are precisely elements in favor of the search for new forms and contents". Diario de Cuba. Retrieved October 28, 2018.
- ^ Peter Plagens (November 29, 1992). ""The Next Wave from Havana" They are known as the "Generation of the '80s", the artists who grew up in Cuba after the 1959 revolution". Newsweek. Retrieved February 10, 2018.
- ^ Niurma Pérez Serpa (March 1, 2016). ""Groups in the Cuban art of the eighties" If there is one characteristic that distinguishes art in the eighties, it was the tendency towards the formation of groups or artistic collectives". Art Oncuba. Retrieved October 28, 2018.
- ^ Janet Batet (July 11, 2018). ""Screaming Heads and Still Lifes: The Late-Career Art of Carlos Alfonzo" Carlos Alfonzo: Painting is the latest exhibition devoted to this Cuban-born artist, currently on view at Fredric Snitzer Gallery in Miami. Painting traces the final years of Alfonzo's life and art, in which his dialogue with death becomes the central theme". Cuban Art News Farber Foundation. Retrieved October 28, 2018.
- ^ "Eduardo Ponjuán González | Portal de las Artes Visuales en Cuba". Archived from the original on 2018-10-29. Retrieved 2018-10-29.
- ^ Antonio Eligio Fernández (August 9, 1995). ""Productivism" Productivism is a chain of senses, a cascade of messages that open with double or triple click, triggering associations of all kinds". The Miami Herald. Retrieved October 28, 2018.
- ^ "ISA, Universidad de las Artes". Isa.cult.cu. Retrieved 2022-09-03.
- ^ Yanet Batet (June 22, 2017). ""Ciro Quintana: Cimarronaje Neobarroco" Going into the works of Ciro Quintana is like daring behind the scenes. We attended a complicated staging full of sarcasm of which the artist makes us participants and accomplices at the same time". El Nuevo Herald Newspaper. Retrieved October 28, 2018.
- ^ "Lot n° 67 JOSIGNACIO (Cuba, 1963). "Martí..."". www.gazette-drouot.com. © La Gazette Drouot 2023. Retrieved 20 March 2023.
- ^ "Josignacio´s chromatic whirlwind". December 2017.
- ^ Permuy, Antonio (31 January 2023). "Visualizing Our Historic Roots" (Digital). Arts Coast Magazine. Creative Pinellas. Retrieved 20 March 2023.
- ^ a b Delgado, Grethel (1 December 2021). "Josignacio expone su obra en Miami con una variada propuesta" (Digital). Diario Las Americas (in Spanish). Miami, Florida: Las Américas Multimedia Group LLC. Retrieved 20 March 2023.
- ^ "Highlights - Auction sales". www.mccarthywilliams.com. London: McCarthy-Williams Auctions. Retrieved 24 March 2023.
- ^ Pike, Helen-Chantal (2021). Asbury Park: A Century of Change. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 9781467105149.