Armando Mariño
Construyendo la abstracción / Constructing abstraction, 1998
Width: 70 inches
Height: 50 inches
Medium: Painting - Oil on Canvas
Diestra/Siniestra / Right/Left, 2001
Width: 500cm (triptych)
Height: 190cm
Medium: Painting - Oil on Canvas
EXHIBITIONS:
2002 Arte en las Venas, Sala Rivadavia, Fundación de la Diputación Provincial de Cadiz, Spain; Museo Cruz Herrera, La Linea de la Concepción, Cadiz, Spain.REFERENCES:
Celia Sredni de Birbragher, “Howard Farber, coleccionista de arte,” Art Nexus 78:9 (2010), pp. 64-69.
Luggage, 2003
Medium: Painting
La Patera / The Raft, 2002
Width: 200cm
Height: 150cm
Medium: Painting - watercolor on paper
EXHIBITIONS:
2007 (May 29-Sep 9) Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL2007 (Oct 7-Dec 31) Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL
2009 (Oct 3-Jan 4) Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, Jordan Schnitzer Museum, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
2010 (Oct 15-Jan 10) Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
2010 (Feb-Apr 4) Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL
2010 (Jun 27-Sep 19) Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
REFERENCES:
Leaflet, Armando Mariño, VIII Bienal de La Habana (Madrid, Spain, 2003), illust. Catalogue, Eighth Havana Biennial (Havana: Wifredo Lam Center, 2003), illust, p. 152. Julia P. Herzberg, “Octava Bienal de la Habana,” ArtNexus 52 (April, 2004). Thane Peterson, “Art’s New Frame of Reference,” Business Week 4014 (25 Dec 2006), p. 117, illus. Abelardo Mena Chicuri, Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection (University of Florida Press, 2007). “…Die Unbekannteste Kunst der Welt,” ARTinvestor 3/2007, p. 13.
Yo,myself and the holy ghost,
Medium: Painting - Oil on canvas
El Tercer Ojo / The Third Eye, 2000
Width: 125cm
Height: 152cm
Medium: Drawing - pastel on paper
Untitled (Colonial Heritage Series), 2003
Width: 80 inches overall
Height: 60 1/4 inches
Medium: Painting - watercolor on wove paper, in 2 parts
REFERENCES:
The series concept is based on the idea that every contemporary object is affected by a colonial past. The history of Western culture is closely linked to its colonial past, so it follows that those objects and creations produced by the Western world are imbued with this past. The resources, the labor that gives life to these resources, and the conditions of production under which they are made are all the result of colonialism, the highest expression of which is European colonialism. For this reason, in these pieces human legs support the objects and are the deus ex machina of their existence, the source of their mobility, and their reason for being: living metaphors of their colonial past. --Armando Mariño, 2013
Untitled 1999
Width: 100cm
Height: 150cm
Medium: Painting - Pastel on paper
About Armando Mariño
b. 1968, resides in USA
Beginning with his solo exhibition, Des-colon-izando el entorno (De-colon-izing the Environment, Wifredo Lam Center, 1996), Mariño’s art has revealed a unique take on the practice of parody and . . .
