Anxiety

His iconography blends the pagan religiousness of Cuban santeria and eroticism, together with strong feelings and emotion. In his plastic art production, the male body takes the leading role, alongside hearts, roses and other elements of symbolic content, which he depicts with swift lines on the whites and grays of his backgrounds. The color applied in thick layers, with some touches of red, makes the drawing’s fluidity stand out on the large surfaces of his canvases.

The work that the artist donated to the MUSA steps away from his usual subject matter and offers the observer a partial view of a face. The attention is focused on the sneering lips, in what could be his allusion to a moment preliminary to creation or to the emotion it entails, because of the sign offered by the bloody pencil tip that appears between the teeth.