EN EL CAMINO LOS AMIGOS

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The Project
Los Amigos en el Camino (The Friends on the Way) emerged as a collaborative exhibition celebrating both the richness of Cuban culture, and the spiritual unity of the Cuban artists participating in the exhibition, whose work is inspired by their direct experiences with the moment, or what some would call the direct experience of the present,
the here and now.
Each work represents an interpretation of the artist’s connection with limitlessness; a
sense that time exists in the here and now; the sense that we are never more alive than
in the second we realize there are no boundaries to existence.
The artists’ common bond, reflected in the artwork in the exhibition, is their combined
confidence in the unified nature of the work, that each piece is connected to the other,
not only through the creative process of the artists’ individual mind, but also through
creating a space of openness to the creativity of all of the artists in the exhibition.
This concept, seemingly esoteric, is the common bond. Whether conveyed through the
organic forms of Alain Aspiolea in his masterful large scale oil paintings, through the
riveting black and white photographs of Nelson Jalil, which entice us with their images
of a forbidden and still unknown Cuba, or through the compelling and serene work of
Laura Carralero, each portrays the direct experience of the present, as well as the realization that despite individual qualities, we are all connected.
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Artist Statement
Alejandro Campins is a Young artist, graduated from the Instituto Superior de
Arte (ISA). His work belongs to a new movement of painting that has developed within
the emerging Cuban art. Campins, like other colleagues of his generation, is charmed
by German’s Neoexpressionism and in particular Martin Kippenberger. He likes to use
large formats and color planes, with a careless, almost scattered touch of bad painting.
His complex color palette distorts the quality of a discourse that could otherwise be
considered light, maybe because of its origin: patterns from magazines, newspapers,
various catalogues, etc. Campins’ Pop mannerism seeks a difference in a visual poetry
that revives an interior monologue that enjoys irony, skepticism and controlled melancholy. The flirtations with a national reality –in terms of text and phrases commonly
used in political and ideological rhetoric or within the domain of popular rumor- expresses an art that wishes to transcend the delight in a pictorial tradition in order to
hold a critical connection to its context. He has exhibited in México, Ecuador, Portugal,
Italy, Denmark, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, USA and Cuba (National Museum of Fine
Arts, Habana Gallery among others).
ALEJANDRO CAMPINS
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DRAWINGS
Mixed / Heavypaper
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Què piensa esa rubia de la vida. 2009
Mixed / Heavypaper 59”X 51”
1500 USD
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Untitled. 2008
Mixed / Heavypaper 39”X 28”
800 USD
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Alejandro Campins Fleita
1981, Manzanillo City, Cuba.
www.alejandrocampins.com
Studies
2000 – Graduated from El Alba Fine Arts Academy in Holguín City, Cuba.
2009 – Graduated from University of Arts (ISA) Havana, Cuba.
2013
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Solo Shows
Nómada (Nomad) at Liceo Carmelita, C. del Carmen, Mexico.
Herencia (Heritage) Knoerle & Beattig Contemporary fine art, Winterthur,
Switzerland.
Reliquia (Relic) at Raymaluz Art gallery, Madrid, Spain.
Li-4 in ZonaMACO, DF, Mexico.
2012
Patria (Homeland) at Factoría Habana Gallery, Havana, Cuba.
2011
La bondad del desconocido (The Kindness of the unknown) Servando Gallery,
Havana, Cuba.
2009
En la cola del cometa (In the comet’s tail) Luz y Suarez del Villar Gallery. Madrid,
Spain.
Cuando el sol es enorme (When the sun is enormous) Servando Gallery, Havana
Cuba.
2008
Project Inventario (Inventory) at Ludwig Foundation of Cuba.
Corta Distancia (Short distance) Casa de la Cultura of Plaza Gallery, Havana, Cuba.
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Group Shows
Agua Salada (Salty Water) Hispanic – American Cultural Center, Havana, Cuba.
Avalancha (Avalanche) Villamanuela Gallery, Havana. Cuba.
2013
Para quebrar los muros (To break the walls) at National Museum of Fine Arts,
Havana, Cuba.
Memento Mori/Joie de Vivre Servando Gallery, Havana, Cuba.
The New Painters at Saltfineart Gallery. Laguna beach, USA.
Cuba Contemporaine. Art de la grande ile des Caraibes at Centre Culturel du
Manoir de Cologny, Geneva, Switzerland.
2012
Gulliver Freies Museum, Berlin. Germany.
Premio Maretti Wifredo Lam Center, Havana, Cuba.
Heavy and Happy Painters at Morro – Cabaña Fortress during Havana11th
Biennale, Havana. Cuba.
HB (Habana Gallery Pavilion) at Pabexpo during Havana11th Biennale, Havana.
Cuba.
CUBA Saltfineart Gallery. L.A, USA.
2011
Art Position 11 Halle Nautic Technic, Salavaux. Suiza.
Junge Szene Kuba Cultural Center “Pasinger Fabrik”, Munich, Germany.
Torbellino (Whirl) Habana Gallery, Havana, Cuba.
2010
12 Cairo Biennale, El Cairo, Egypt.
Artbo Artfair, Bogotá, Colombia.
Portugal 1st Biennale, Portugal.
Text to Speech: El otro Lenguaje ContemporaneaCuba 2010 Bonelli LAB, Canneto
Sull’Oglio, Mantova, Italy.
En la tierra no hay nada gratis (There’s nothing for free on earth) at Luz y Oficio
Gallery, Havana, Cuba.
CV
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Trazos” (Sketches) Servando Gallery, Havana, Cuba.
Bomba (Bomb) Wifredo Lam Center, Havana, Cuba.
2009
Clonfluencias, Inside II. Natural Hispanic Cultural Center. Art Museum
Albuquerque, USA.
Arteamericas, Miami, FL, USA.
Artmadrid Madrid. Spain.
2008
V Salon de Arte Contemporáneo Cubano (V Cuban Contemporary Arts Show) at
Center for Visual Arts Havana, Cuba.
BLA,BLA,BLA at Servando Gallery, Havana, Cuba.
Jai Lou Lait DPM Gallery, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
Crónicas del Entusiasmo (Chronicles of the enthusiasm) Luz y Suarez del Villar
Gallery, Madrid., Spain.
Plastilina (Plasticine) Hispanic – American Cultural Center, Havana, Cuba.
Far Far Away Co-Lab, Copenhagen, Denmark.
2007
Vostok Repairing workshop Vostok 1 and Luz y Oficio Gallery, Havana, Cuba.
La Cosecha (The harvest) at Center for Visual Arts, Havana, Cuba.
Situación Construida (Built Situation), Cabeza de Vena exhibition (Vein Head),
University of Arts (ISA) Havana, Cuba.
CV
2013
Residencies and Awards
Festival de Artes Visuales de Campeche (Visual Arts Festival of Campeche)
(FAVCA), Mexico.
2010
Pintura pensada (Intended paint) ARTE+ Prize by Cubeart Association. Havana,
Cuba.
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Publications
Alejandro Campins 2009 – 2013, Ceiba Publications, 2013.
ContemporaneaCuba – Flyers. Skira Editore. Italy. 2012. pp 18 – 21.
Contra la toxina. Piter Ortega. 2011. Editorial: Instituto Cubano de Investigación
Cultural Juan Marinello. Text: “Cuando la guayabera dejó de ser importante (o
el imperio de los pingüinos necios)” in Cuba contemporary art. Editorial Turner,
2011. pp. 354 – 357.
Cat. 12 Cairo Biennale. 2010. Arab Republic of Egypt Ministry of Culture, Fine Arts
Sector. pp. 306 -309.
Modern Painter (magazine) , NY. USA, Summer 2010. “Strange Sort of Poetry”
Cooke, Julia. pp. 56-58.
Cat. Confluencias Inside. Segunda Edición. New Mexico Culture Ministery, USA,
2009. pp. 15-17.
Cat. En la cola del cometa. Luz y Suarez del Villar Gallery, Madrid, oct - nov. 2009
(Piter Ortega and Frency).
Cat. Cuando el sol es enorme. Servando Gallery, Havana City, jun - jul. 2008 (Flavio
Garciandia and Lupe Álvarez).
Cat. Bla, Bla, Bla. Servando Gallery, Havana City, august – sep. 2008 (Piter Ortega,
Rufo Caballero, Héctor Antón).