Lázaro Saavedra
Metamorphosis series: "Que feliz me siento", 1992
Width: 40cm
Height: 23.2cm
Medium: Painting - Acrylic on cake box cardboard
Metamorphosis series: "Un ataque de asma", 1992
Width: 44.5cm
Height: 29.1cm
Medium: Painting - Acrylic on cake box cardboard
Metamorphosis series: "Mesa de comer", 1992
Width: 44.8cm
Height: 29.5cm
Medium: Painting - Acrylic on cake box cardboard
Metamorphosis series: "Cuando llegaba a mi casa", 1992
Width: 33.2cm
Height: 25.9cm
Medium: Painting - Acrylic on cake box cardboard
Metamorphosis series: "Voy a crear una obra", 1992
Width: 44.7cm
Height: 29.1cm
Medium: Painting - Acrylic on cake box cardboard
Metamorphosis series: "¿Que harán tantas avispas…?, 1992
Width: 44.9cm
Height: 29.6cm
Medium: Painting - Acrylic on cake box cardboard
Metamorphosis series: "Que fresco, que silencio", 1992
Width: 44.6cm
Height: 29.2cm
Medium: Painting - Acrylic on cake box cardboard
Metamorphosis series: "Antes de inaugurar 'el objeto esculturado'," 1992
Width: 44.9cm
Height: 29.1cm
Medium: Painting - Acrylic on cake box cardboard
Metamorphosis series: "Hágalo con arte”, 1992
Width: 44.1cm
Height: 28.9cm
Medium: Painting - Acrylic on cake box cardboard
Metamorphosis series: “¿Esto que hago puede ser arte?”, 1992
Width: 44.6cm
Height: 28.4cm
Medium: Painting - Acrylic on cake box cardboard
Metamorphosis series: “Reconstrucción de la Ciudad de Pioneros”, 1992
Width: 44.9cm
Height: 29.2cm
Medium: Painting - Acrylic on cake box cardboard
Metamorphosis series: “¡Me oistes comemierda!, 1992
Width: 44.7cm
Height: 29.2cm
Medium: Painting - Acrylic on cake box cardboard
El Sagrado Corazón / The Sacred Heart, 1995
Width: 50cm
Height: 70cm
Medium: Painting - Acrylic on board
EXHIBITIONS:
1995 Una de cada clase (One of Each Kind), Ludwig Foundation of Cuba, CENCREM, Havana.1996 Mundo soñado: Joven Plástica Cubana (Dream World. Young Cuban Artists), Casa de América, Madrid, Spain, 1996.
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, FL
2007 (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
2012 Caribbean Crossroads of the World, Queens Museum of Art, New York
REFERENCES:
Gerardo Mosquera, “La Isla Infinita, Introducción al Nuevo Arte Cubano” (The Limitless Island: An Introduction to the New Cuban Art) in Arte contemporáneo de Cuba: Ironía y sobrevivencia en la Isla Utopía (Cuban Contemporary Art: Irony and Survival in the Island of Utopia), Arizona State University Art Museum (New York: Delano Greenidge Editions, 1999), pp. 31-37. Abelardo Mena Chicuri, Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection (University of Florida Press, 2007). Miami Art Guide (Jan/Feb 2010), p. 43 illus.About Lázaro Saavedra
b. 1964, resides in Cuba
Oval or rectangular in shape, industrially printed in garish color, the Sacred Heart was one of the most popular icons in a Catholic land that also revered African deities in the guise of Christian saints. It invariably depicted a young man . . .
Joining the collection, a striking, unsettling canvas from Roberto Fabelo’s recent show at Galería Habana













