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Lot 135
Carlos Alfonzo (1950 - 1991) Cuban, oil on canvas
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Carlos Alfonzo (1950 - 1991) Cuban, oil on canvas,not framed, untitled ,signed lower left, with C O A
Alfonzo was born in Cuba in 1950. He received a degree in art from the Academia San Alejandro in 1973 and in art history from the University of Havana four years later. He taught and exhibited in Cuba in spite of extremely difficult conditions. In 1980, after days spent crowded into the Peruvian Embassy, Alfonzo left by sea on a journey that was marred by violence. He came to Miami during the Mariel boat lift in 1980 and lived and worked there until his death. It took him two years to sort himself out before he returned to painting. For years Alfonzo's paintings were bright, appealing, full of geometric shapes and symbols drawn from the Greek and Afro-Cuban mythology. Then he changed direction radically, creating large dark-toned works that insist on the viewer's participation. He took elements of classical modernism, mainly from Surrealism and Cubism with hints of Abstract Expressionism, and fermented them together into a wonderfully synthetic yet coherent concoction that is truly intoxicating. His many images of sacrifice, violence and apocalypse refer finally to his descent into the inferno. Alfonzo died of AIDS in 1991.
DIMENSIONS with out frame: Height 48 inch / 122 cm
Length 60 inch / 152 cm
Alfonzo was born in Cuba in 1950. He received a degree in art from the Academia San Alejandro in 1973 and in art history from the University of Havana four years later. He taught and exhibited in Cuba in spite of extremely difficult conditions. In 1980, after days spent crowded into the Peruvian Embassy, Alfonzo left by sea on a journey that was marred by violence. He came to Miami during the Mariel boat lift in 1980 and lived and worked there until his death. It took him two years to sort himself out before he returned to painting. For years Alfonzo's paintings were bright, appealing, full of geometric shapes and symbols drawn from the Greek and Afro-Cuban mythology. Then he changed direction radically, creating large dark-toned works that insist on the viewer's participation. He took elements of classical modernism, mainly from Surrealism and Cubism with hints of Abstract Expressionism, and fermented them together into a wonderfully synthetic yet coherent concoction that is truly intoxicating. His many images of sacrifice, violence and apocalypse refer finally to his descent into the inferno. Alfonzo died of AIDS in 1991.
DIMENSIONS with out frame: Height 48 inch / 122 cm
Length 60 inch / 152 cm
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