ROBERTO FABELO (Camagüey, Cuba, 1950). "In the garden of the night", 2015. Crayon on cardboard.

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  ROBERTO FABELO (Camagüey, Cuba, 1950). "In the garden of the night", 2015. Crayon on cardboard. Signed, dated and titled in the lower margin. Provenance: Work acquired directly from the artist. Measurements: 75 x 100 cm. "In the garden of the night" reveals the oblivion, indifference and helplessness that overwhelms our world. It alludes to that darkness that not only floods the earthly plane, but also the inner world of each one of us. In this work Fabelo offers us a naked, desolate and crouching body, which rises majestically against a black background. The character, totally oblivious to the viewer and absorbed in his thoughts, does not seem to be disturbed by the flies that cover his body, a simile with the heaviness and annoying impertinence of these beings that gravitate around the human body in a continuous insistence. As in other works by the Camagüey native, "El jardín de la noche" displays a splendid duality between the animal world and the human figure. Surrealistic in nature, Fabelo's art is completely identifiable: women, fauns, bird-men or centaurs are some of the beings that star in his paintings, halfway between the dream world and reality, which combine beautiful elements intrinsic to nature -such as shells, scales, bird and insect wings or bird heads- with scaly mermaid tails and other fantastic animals. Roberto Fabelo is a painter, draftsman, engraver, illustrator and sculptor. His childhood was spent in his hometown, where he was constantly drawing on different papers found anywhere. His passion for drawing -or "graphomania", as he calls it- originated at that time, and what began as a playful action gradually turned into a vice when he realized that any support was good to let his imagination flow. He belonged to the first generation of ENA graduates in the seventies (once described as the "generation of certain hope") and to that of ISA in the eighties, moments in which he acquired notable visibility in the artistic scene. Since then she has developed a fruitful professional career that encompasses practically all manifestations of the visual arts. He is a member of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC) and the International Association of Plastic Artists (AIAP). In 1996 he was selected UNESCO Prize for the Promotion of Plastic Arts in Paris, France; and since 2002 his Self-Portrait is part of the permanent collection of the Galleria Degli Uffizi in Florence, Italy, one of the oldest and most famous art collections in the world. He has been awarded the National Prize of Plastic Arts, 2004, as well as the Distinction for National Culture, both granted by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Cuba. Fabelo has also been awarded the Abel Santamaría Medal, the Alejo Carpentier Medal and the Juan Marinello Order by the Council of State of the Republic of Cuba. He has also received the Commemorative Plaque for the 480th Anniversary of the Foundation of the Villa de San Cristobal de La Habana and the Plaque of the City of the Community of Andalusia, Spain. In 2007 the Rectory of the Higher Institute of Art of Havana granted him the special category of consulting professor. He also holds the Diploma of Artistic Merit from the Higher Institute of Art of Havana. Among the more than twenty awards received throughout his career are the Acquisition Prize III Triennial of Contemporary Art in New Delhi, India, 1978; the Drawing Prize at Intergraphik, Berlin, Germany; the Prize at the IX Drawing Exhibition, Rijeka, Yugoslavia, etc.
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