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Rafael Soriano (b. 1920, Cidras,
Matanzas, Cuba) is one of the major Latin American artists of
his Generation, and one of the premier painters of Cuba. Along
with other third-generation modernists such as Agustín
Cárdenas, Rolando López Dirube, Agustín
Fernández and Antonia Eiriz, Soriano broke with regional
and folklorical themes which dominated Cuban art from its emergence
in the modern era I the mid-twenties. Soriano first mastered
geometric abstraction as a style in the 1950's, but by the late
1960's had defined his signature approach to painting. His work
embodies a style best described as Oneiric Luminism by which
Soriano combines a purely abstract form of light, form space
and shadow with an interest in poetic and metaphysical impulses
that drive our unconscious minds. His works evoke depth without
recourse to traditional modes of perspectives, and they employ
light and darkness independently of how their effects are perceived
in the physical world. His images seek to embody the fluid metamorphosing
energy of the imagination. An incomparable master of oil on
canvas and the author of Latin America's most singular and original
bodies of work in painting and drawing, Soriano has lived in
Miami since the 1960's. He has exhibited widely throughout the
hemisphere and in Europe, is included in myriad museum collections,
and he is the subject of a major monograph, Rafael Soriano:
The Poetics of Light written by Pau-Llosa (Miami: Ediciones
Habana Vieja, 1998).
February 23, 2005 America Online:
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