JUNE 2023
NORTH AND SOUTH GALLERIES
Continuous Line, Noise of the Water & Summertime | Darwin Estacio Martinez
Darwin Estacio Martinez was born in 1982, in Manzanillo, Cuba; he is a graduate from the Professional Academy of Fine Arts "El Alba" in Holguin city, and also is a graduate from the Higher Institute of Arts in Havana. He is professor at the National Fine Arts Academy (San Alejandro), and has had an extensive artistic career having participated exhibitions across Cuba and other countries around the world. Images of his works have been included in several publications and many of his artworks belong to private collections in and outside of the Island.
My paintings and videos are intended to embody general ideas through fragments and details that allude to a chain of actions that are maintained only in a speculative and interpretive level. For me, nothing happens except what an observer is able to infer. The use of the human figure removed from any individual reference helps me focus on personality archetypes. I use each figure as a kind human being type. I want to achieve in the medium of cinema the effect I achieve in my painting and paradoxically to create within my paintings that which I have captured in film.
