AGUSTÍN CÁRDENAS ALFONSO (Cuba, 1927 - 2001). Untitled. Marble. Unique piece according to certificate. Attached certificate issued by Doña Lidia Cárde

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  AGUSTÍN CÁRDENAS ALFONSO (Cuba, 1927 - 2001). Untitled. Marble. Unique piece according to certificate. Attached certificate issued by Doña Lidia Cárdenas. It presents restorations and some scratches. Measurements: 61,5 x 17,5 x 18 cm. The organic and biform lines are present in this work, stimulating the viewer's sight, who is in the presence of a material of great resistance, which has been treated by the artist with great mastery. In such a way that he has managed to make the carving, a common technique used with marble, look like a moulding. The result is a suggestive and attractive piece, which is defined by the multiple facets, or views that it offers the spectator. These make it necessary to go around the entire perimeter of the work, in order to be able to conceive it in its entirety, thus exercising the active participation of the one who contemplates the work. This piece belongs to the artist's second phase in which, after abandoning wood as a support, he began to work with marble. A painter and sculptor, Cárdenas trained at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes de San Alejandro in Havana between 1943 and 1949, where he studied under the guidance of the artist Juan José Sicre, who introduced him to the works of great sculptors such as Jean Arp, Henry Moore and Brancusi, which had a great influence on the development of his later work. Cárdenas was a member of the Association of Cuban Engravers (1951-55) and of the group Los Once (1953-55). In 1955 he was awarded a scholarship to study in Paris, the city where his most creative period took place, consolidating him as an international figure. In 1957 he joined the Parisian surrealist movement, and in 1965 he was awarded the prize at the Paris Biennial. As a sculptor, his work is divided into three stages, defined by the material used in each: first wood, then marble, granite and basalt, and finally bronze. His painting is closely related to his sculptural work, also presenting dynamic bodies that appear to be in constant change, with fluid and synthesised forms. Cárdenas exhibited his work both in Cuba and in the United States, France, Italy and South Korea, and participated in numerous group exhibitions, such as the Tokyo International Biennial in 1965. His awards include the Cuban National Prize for Plastic Arts (1955), although he has also been awarded several medals in Cuban fine arts salons, and in 1976 he won the prize at the Fujisankey Biennial (Japan) and was made a knight of the French National Order of Arts and Letters. Cárdenas is represented at the CNAC in Paris, the Hakone Art Museum (Japan), the National Museum of Fine Arts in Cuba, the Museums of Contemporary Art in Algiers and Montreal, the Museum of Modern Art in Tel Aviv and the Museum of Fine Arts in Caracas.
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