INSTINCTS OF MONTE
Monday, February 13, 2006
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For Algiers Calcines General Editor of Opus Habana
native of the small island where no one grows old, has Rafael Calvo (Klvo) his mind still full of conflicting ideas, dreams that take-over and time-to seek wisdom in the continent where the human species was born. I had thought since childhood
in this great adventure, "to discover the truth-in his own words, but I thought of all that when we had no choice: they came first ..." Thousands of black teenagers crossed the ocean from 1977 and, as if had served a purpose, Africa emerged before his eyes as part of that little island of Cuba.
not needed then the young artist to travel across the Atlantic from Angola, Mozambique, Namibia, Ethiopia, Congo, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Guinea Conakry, South Africa, Cape Verde, Ghana, Benin, Mali, Lesotho, Sudan , Zimbabwe, Burkina Faso, Uganda, Burundi, Madagascar, Sierra Leone, Niger ...
was enough to invoke the Che Guevara and, camera in hand, marched through the international schools of his native Isle of Youth with a primary goal behind the lens, capturing how each of the African nations represented there kept its identity, which notable differences between them might go unnoticed even for a fairly seasoned observer.
As a chosen of the gods, Klvo had the privilege of see-in pure-play habits and customs of an old
unfathomable. Supposedly 'primitive', these events were revealed as the acquisition of a primordial collective wisdom of an impossible imaginary
to delete, such as keloids that perpetuated tribal marks on the skin of South African and Sudanese photographed.
And so, what in principle could arise as a kind of intellectual journey to the roots of the afrocubanÃa remote-as defined by Fernando Ortiz, "became ultimately a much more complex experience that referred to a mysterious depth , translated into signs, images, reflections of another world ...
"crossed" not in vain, was the title of this photographic investigation, with which he graduated from the National Art School in 1990. As a result, had built more than 500 pictures to the gallery world of the human species in a kind of visual dialogue with those marks and facial furrows, with the hair tissues Burkinabe girls smiling ... and other ancient codes as body ornaments and other household items.
I've had forcibly from that precedent to explain the meaning of "Instincts of the mountain," a series that breaks Klvo now in the dynamic and heterogeneous landscape painting Cuban peculiar style which is impossible for this or more member that trend.
And is that beyond the mere pursuit ethnological and anthropological, if you will, too, "Klvo was marked forever by this contact intercultural, for that unique human experience that other correlates aesthetic required to express the full extent of animistic.
"How to transmute the beauty of their faces streaked, how to convey the strength of its mystery? ... "Must have asked over the years, hidden from the creator, the many artists that make their being autobiographical photographer, printmaker, ceramist, painter ... And the answer came by instinct, because it came from within, as whispered the ear by a Muganga (wizard) from the bottom of the hill: "Painting the Masks."
link between the earthly and supernatural, doors open for the ancestors to be integrated back into the pool, some masks are used whenever there is a death in the town ... others only hundreds of years past ...
"Are intercesseurs (advocates) against the unknown and threatening spirits ( ...) weapons to help people not to obey anymore the spirits and be independent. Spirits, the unconscious, emotion, everything is the same. I understood because he was a painter "he said with glee, as if he had found the philosopher's stone-Pablo Picasso to André Malraux after visiting the Trocadero Museum, now the Museum of Man. The same
Klvo understood, but without having to go to Paris. Was enough to cover their small island home, where no one grows old ...
I've had the privilege of seeing currently in the process of creation when, as outlined previously, these fetishes will be provided with energy by the painter, his fingers energy transmitted through the use tenacious of charcoal to achieve effects that compel us to perceive and respect the occult.
Every feeling, from fear to joy, is expressed through art Klvo on the edge between abstraction and figuration, it becomes dark deliberately to underline the depth of the human being, the unconscious, instincts, emotions ... of Mt.
And never forget when, after reaching his home and studio in the middle of a blackout that recalled the thick night of Africa, to be light suddenly appeared before me ... great Dogon mask depicting the Komondo ...
hope and protect the mythical bird as wise operator with their wings!
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