A SELECTION OF CUBAN CONTEMPORARY ART
CUBA
CUBA
53
Segundo Planes
Two works: (i) Untitled, 1985; (ii) Untitled, 1984
- Estimate
- $2,000 - 4,000
$3,500
Lot Details
watercolor, tempera and crayon on paper
each 29 3/8 x 39 1/2 in. (74.6 x 100.3 cm.)
(i) Signed and dated "2do 85" lower right; (ii) Signed and dated "2do 84" lower right.
Specialist
Full-Cataloguing
Catalogue Essay
Intricate and amazingly inventive, Planes’s work was a violently charged reverie on the Cuban everyday, a torrential self-portrait by an artist who signed his name 'Nobody.'... Planes's paintings, with their festive disorder, their 'savage' baroque and kitsch, were inextricably rooted in Cuban popular culture, riddling the tradition of the everyday observation into a gonzo psychorealism overlowing with an unlimitable fantasy full of slips of the tongue and double entendres of everyday life... A Planes installation turned the gallery space into a helter-skelter obstacle course, a physical as much as a visual assault. In comparison, the drawings were relatively calm and pensive, a resort to absurdist poetry for refuge from the clamor of the painted acrobatics.
Rachel Weiss, To and From Utopia in the New Cuban Art, 2011
Rachel Weiss, To and From Utopia in the New Cuban Art, 2011
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