Modesto Rodríguez Camejo
Painter, draftsman, muralist and teacher.
12.0pt "> Young talent that enjoys reputation nationally and internationally. Graduated from the National Art School.
He was born on May 15, 1973 in Baracoa, Guantanamo Province, Cuba.
This artist is recognized by the National Registry of the Creator of Fine Arts Cuba.
His work is displayed participation in group exhibitions, among which most important are: "Cuba Art" in Richoni - Italy, "For the 30 Anniversary of the Escuela Nacional de Arte "Gallery in San Alejandro," Expo at the International Press Center, "Graphic Design" on Gallery Miramar Theatre. In addition, some personal and interesting exhibits Homage Style "in the Hotel Habana Libre Trip, "Expo in Arthing Gallery, San Juan, Puerto Rico," the "Cubania" Palma de Mallorca - Spain "and" Transpose "at the headquarters of the Cuban Movement for Peace.
Has received Awards and critical acclaim. He has works on permanent display in the Gallery Vittorio Emanuele and the Melia Cohiba Hotel, "" Nacional "and" Commodore ", everyone in the city of Havana.
His murals can be seen in the "Havana Club" made for the Ibero American Summit in Church "La Milagrosa" - Santos Suarez - and the Convento del Rincon in the city of Havana. .
For he says "Many people have lives marked by the comings and goings. That feeling of not belonging to a specific location, if any part always accompanies them. So loneliness, nostalgia, longing are inseparable part of your everyday life, hence the pressing need to find a refuge, a shelter that allows you to take off ... "all the violence that surrounds it that often lives "... and turns them into beings vulnerable to adverse everything around them.
This is the feeling that Camejo Modesto wanted to express through his particular way of doing that, until now, has gone through two key moments, which are characterized by the traditional interest in addressing issues in art history as portrait, landscape and still life.
The latter is the true center, around which ideas grow gradually give rise to a debtor works great technical mastery and where evidence a clear interest to preserve academic standards and rules. However, this taste for the perfect, basking in the traditional way of producing easel paintings, may seem fundamental intention pursued by the artist.
An unstable world, inconstant, full of desires and longings, is masked behind these works immaculate, where one breathes an atmosphere that emanates peace and tranquility and where the elements have the quality to be exceedingly harmless (landscapes, fruits, flowers).
The role of color - which shifted from a total chromaticism to a monochrome almost complete - and transpolación or transposition of Dutch still life, are resources which the artist uses to shape his speech.
They represent what no longer exists, what is not, but with real lives in the same space and time thus establishing a parallel between the near and far, the absence and presence, evidenced in his works.
From here opens a long way which can only be overcome with tenacity and talent. His work ultimately will be giving the last word. "
In 1986 he won first prize in a provincial contest in the Art Gallery of Guantanamo for the 150 anniversary of the birth of General Maximo Gomez.
Later successfully participated in other exhibitions in your area and then ventures into solo and group exhibitions in galleries in Havana and in cities in other countries
2003 - Group exhibition at the Bar, Canary Islands.
2002 - Personal exhibition "Cubania", Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
2001 - Exhibition "Art Cuba, Richoni, Italy.
2001 - Exhibition at Gallery Arthing in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2000 - Group show at the Riviera Hotel in Havana.
2000 - Group exhibition at the International Press Center, Havana.
2000 - personal exhibition "Tribute to Style" in the Hotel Habana Libre Trip, in Havana.
1999 - Personal exhibition "Transpose", at the headquarters of the Cuban Movement for Peace.
1999 - Performs at Club Havana mural for the Latin American Summit of Heads of States ..
1998 - Collective exhibition in Lisbon, Portugal.
1997 - Group exhibition by the 30 th anniversary of the founding of the National Art School Gallery, San Alejandro, Havana.
1996 - Make murals in the church La Milagrosa, in Santos Suarez, and the Convent Corner.
1992 - Exhibition at the National Gallery Art School, Havana.
1992 - He graduated as a painter and draftsman at the Escuela Nacional de Arte, La Habana, Cuba.
1991 - Collective exhibition of graphic design at the Miramar Theatre Gallery, Havana.
1989 - Exhibition at Vocational School of Art in Guantánamo.
1988 - Group exhibition at the Casa de Cultura in Guantanamo.
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