JOSÉ BEDIA (Havana, Cuba, 1959). "Chico con cubo (Boy with a bucket), 2007. Mixed media on paper. Signed and dated in lower right corner.

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  JOSÉ BEDIA (Havana, Cuba, 1959). "Chico con cubo (Boy with a bucket), 2007. Mixed media on paper. Signed and dated in lower right corner. Size: 97 x 126 cm; 119 x 148,5 cm (frame). As the artist's website points out, from an early age Jose Bedia excelled in drawing, comics and illustration, and as a teenager he began his academic training at the famous San Alejandro Academy. As a student he developed the formal skills he has been using throughout his artistic career. After San Alejandro, he graduated with honours from the ISA, Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana, Cuba. He was a pioneer of the radical transformation of Cuban art that inaugurated the Volume 1 Exhibition, of which Bedia was an integral part. His passion for the primary Amerindians led him to complement his anthropological studies on Afro-Transatlantic cultures, studying in depth the faith, beliefs and religion of "La Regla Kongo" (in which he was initiated in 1983), the "Regla de Ocha", and the Leopard Society of Abakuas, among many others. He travelled to Angola as part of the International Cultural Brigades that supported the Angolan-Cuban war struggle against Namibia and South Africa. This contact with the mother continent and the war increased his interest in the African roots of American culture. This interest led him to visit countries such as Peru, Mexico, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Zambia, Botswana, Kenya and Tanzania. After residing in Mexico, this vast knowledge has marked his work and shows how this cultural heritage has influenced our real everyday life. Thanks to this solid work, characterised by the mixture of "storytelling" which he calls informative lessons on the cosmogonic Universes of ancestral cultures and the influence on popular cultures, his work has been exhibited in the Biennials of Havana, Sao Paulo, Venice and Beijing. He has received awards and acclaim that position him as one of the most notorious and prestigious art creators from the second half of the 20th century to the present. Today his works are in very important private and public collections such as the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Havana), MoMA, Metropolitan Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art (NYC), Guggenheim, Tate Modern, Smithsonian Museum (Washington), The Daros Collection (Zurich), MEIAC, DA2, IVAM, CAAM (Spain), MOCA, MAM and PAMM in Miami.
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