Year of creation | 2018 |
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Dimensions | 89 W × 130 H × 2 D cm |
Type of art | painting |
Style | fine art |
Genre | portrait |
Materials | oil, canvas |
In this artwork the artist plays with three important referents of his life: Rembrandt, Ché Guevara and his grandfather; mixing all of them in one face. In this way, the artist enhances the analysis of identity, educational and cultural backgrounds, and what we consume today as an artistic product.
Yorjander Capetillo Hernández has earned his bachelor’s degree in set design from the Universidad de las Artes, Havana/Cuba and studied painting at the Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes San Alejandro, Havana. Further, he has participated in graduate courses in art direction at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión, San Antonio de los Baños/Cuba and was part of the Cátedra de Arte de Conducta program organized by the artist Tania Bruguera. In Cuba he works as a Professor of stage design at the Universidad de las Artes. His works have been exhibited internationally in solo and group shows, such as amongst others Species Of Spaces 1974 - An Accommodation Of Retained And Forgotten Locations, Uppsala konstmuseum, Uppsala/Sweden (2016), Éticos y Estéticos, Centro Internacional de Prensa, Havana (2015), The Happiness Workshop, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart/Germany (2015), Monstruos de mi Maquinaria, Pabellón Cuba, Havana (2015), or at the International Art Exhibition NordArt in Büdelsdorf/Germany (2016 and 2014). Yorjander is winner of the Juan Francisco Elso Fellowship in Visual Arts (2014), a fellowship from Akademie Schloss Solitude (2015) and he is nominated for the WERK.STOFF painting award (2018)