2023-12-17 15:03:00
When the young visual artist Bryan Acosta Fagundo invited me to visit the group exhibition Nothing happens, in which a part of his incipient work was collected, I recommended that he take advantage of all possible spaces, contests, events, galleries… to promote his creations.
Regardless of whether these were of greater or lesser resonance, whether they brought some economic dividend or none, it was necessary not to ignore them so that the artist gained visibility within a highly competitive universe.
I made the suggestion because, unfortunately, we live on a planet where the young promises of art – and some who do not even have talent, but believe they are great without being at all – think that, in the blink of an eye, the doors of success will open wide to them, the world will fall to its knees before them and the counting boxes will clang thunderously around them.
Nothing could be further from the truth. Sometimes fame more than rewards mediocrity; But, in most cases, only hard work guarantees, in addition to respect, that a work matures, gains rigor and receives the applause of the public and the most seasoned critics.
Bryan, the young artist from Candelaria, now making his debut in the classrooms of the Higher Institute of Art (ISA), took this humble editor’s suggestion seriously and went to take advantage of the space that was kindly offered to him at the headquarters of the Uneac in the province is also visual artist Juan Carlos Muñoz Alfonso (El Taco), president of this organization.
Of the Expo, named Ephemeral Spaces, Juan Carlos himself has commented that: “he sees it well projected” and feels it as a discourse on the creative process, notes of ideas for future works. When faced with this type of work, many questions arise, they offer the viewer the possibility of believing that the image
definitive gene is on its way or that that image, that face, has already been concretized, and what is captured in the painting was already a final act that is now blurring until it disappears at some point. Everything can be relative in good art, which leaves you with more than one way to interpret it.
The meaning of life itself seems to illuminate the philosophy of these twenty works by Bryan: you come from nothing, from mud, from raw matter, towards a definitive form, and one day you leave that definitive form towards nothing. It is not the destiny of a painting. It is, without exception, the destiny of all humans.
Who can say for sure if these images of Bryan are coming or are on their way to fading? His creator surely knows the answer, but in case he couldn’t tell us, it doesn’t matter. Art always has secrets that not even the author himself knows or can (or wants) to unravel.
When someone asked the immense Federico García Lorca what the lyrical image meant in one of his poems “the cognac in the bottles/ was disguised as November/ so as not to arouse suspicion”the brilliant poet from Granada responded that he did not know how to explain it.
Nobody be surprised. This is how it can happen. The artist simply leaves us the metaphor of his verses or his lines. We try to decipher the message and, in the process, we look for the moral that best suits our way of understanding the world.
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