Tonel (Antonio Eligio Fernández)
Cumbres del arte / Cusps of Art, 1984-1985
Width: 50cm
Height: 65cm
Medium: Painting - watercolor on paper
EXHIBITIONS:
1986 Clásicos de Tonel, solo show, Galería L, Havana.REFERENCES:
Luis Camnitzer, New Art from Cuba (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994; 2003 reprint), pp. 222-225, illus. Center for Cuban Studies, 40th Anniversary Calendar, July 2012, illus.
Hemingway, su técnica / Hemingway, His Technique 1989
Width: 50cm
Height: 65cm
Medium: Painting - watercolor on paper
EXHIBITIONS:
1989 Yo lo que quiero es ser feliz (What I want is to be happy), solo show, Castillo de La Real Fuerza, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana.1990 No Man is an Island, Pori Taidemuseo, Pori, Finland; Mucsarnok Museum, Budapest, Hungary; Palffy Palace, Vienna, Austria.
2001 ¡Hello Cuba!, Mary Brogan Museum of Arts and Sciences. Tallahassee, FL.
Autorretrato comiéndome una rata / Self-Portrait Eating a Rat, 1997
Width: 50cm
Height: 65cm
Medium: Painting - watercolor and mixed media on paper
EXHIBITIONS:
1997 Autorretrato como intelectual organico (Homenaje a Gramsci) [Self-Portrait as an Organic Intellectual (Homage to Gramsci)], solo show, Or Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.1997 Utopian Territories, New Art from Cuba, Belkin Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
2001 ¡Hello Cuba!, Mary Brogan Museum of Arts and Sciences, Tallahassee, FL.
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
REFERENCES:
Eugenio Valdés, Utopian Territories, New Art from Cuba (Vancouver: Belkin Gallery, 1997). Holly Block, ed., Art Cuba: the New Generation (Harry N. Abrams, 2001). Abelardo Mena Chicuri, Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection (University of Florida Press, 2007).
The Chair / La Silla (sketch front & side), 1993
Width: 11 inches
Height: 8 1/2 inches
Medium: Drawing - crayon, ink on paper
The Chair / La Silla (Sketch 1), 1993
Width: 11 inches
Height: 8 1/2 inches
Medium: Drawing - crayon, ink on paper
The Chair / La Silla, 1993-2000
Width: 110cm
Height: 100cm ( x 32cm)
Medium: Sculpture - carved wood, acrylic sculpture
EXHIBITIONS:
2000 Lecciones de Soledad (Lessons of Solitude), Belkin Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.2001 Art in General, New York, NY.
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
REFERENCES:
Eugenio Valdés, “Solitude Laid Bare in the Garden of the Madhouse,” essay in catalogue of cited exhibition, p. 30. Abelardo Mena Chicuri, Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection (University of Florida Press, 2007).
Autorretrato como barco (Cuatro pirámides) / Self-Portrait as a Boat (Four Pyramids), 1995-1997
Width: 241cm
Height: 152cm
Medium: Painting - mixed media on paper
EXHIBITIONS:
1995 Uno de cada clase (One of Each), Ludwig Foundation, CENCREM, Santa Clara Convent, Havana.1997 Autorretrato como intelectual orgánico (Homenaje a Gramsci) [Self-Portrait as an Organic Intellectual (Homage to Gramsci)], solo show, Or Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.
1999 Arte Cubano Más Allá del Papel (Cuban Art Beyond Paper), Centro Cultural Conde Duque, Madrid, Spain.
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
REFERENCES:
Catalogues of cited exhibitions.
About Tonel (Antonio Eligio Fernández)
b. 1958, resides in Cuba and Canada
In the early 1980s, the publication of Tonel’s “caricatures” in humor magazines led to his being erroneously classified as a humorist. Nevertheless, with the 1989 exhibition . . .
