{"id":52205,"date":"2015-08-01T06:00:25","date_gmt":"2015-08-01T10:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oncubamagazine.com\/?p=52205"},"modified":"2015-07-31T20:12:24","modified_gmt":"2015-08-01T00:12:24","slug":"julias-many-skins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/culture\/visual-arts\/julias-many-skins\/","title":{"rendered":"Julia\u2019s Many Skins"},"content":{"rendered":"

From a very young age, Julia\u2014daughter of the well-known Cuban sculptor Ren\u00e9 Vald\u00e9s\u2014was surrounded by paintbrushes, chisels, chunks of marble and pieces of wood, and this environment influenced her natural inclination toward the world of visual arts. However, far from following in the footsteps of her father, her \u201cfirst teacher,\u201d as she calls him, she chose abstract painting, which has been her language for creativity and communication from the very start.<\/p>\n

While she extensively studied and is influenced by the work of Jackson Pollock\u2014a representative of so-called Action Painting, a tendency associated with abstract expressionism\u2014Julia says that her chief inspiration has been her teacher Antonio Vidal, \u201can excellent professor who was not only a well-known painter but also a great educator; he was able to pass on his knowledge, leaving a margin for suggestions and communication with his students.\u201d<\/p>\n

As an almost devout follower of abstraction, she describes that tendency as the maximum synthesis of reality based on vivid experiences. \u201cArtists always incorporate autobiographical themes\u2014sometimes consciously and sometimes unconsciously, and personally, I\u2019m not exempt from that reality.\u201d<\/p>\n

This artist, who prefers working in the morning and afternoon hours, because \u201cit\u2019s when she can best perceive the colors that play a very central role in her work,\u201d is framed in the 70s Generation, a period of recent Cuban art history that recurrently sang the praises of the revolutionary epic and where figurative art took on a very relevant significance. However, without giving expression to immediate reality, she addressed everyday life from a non-figurative perspective, an interest that she always had and that she maintains, using large-format works, which have a greater impact. \u201cRight now I am setting out to make a piece that is not framed, and that instead remains open\u2014something very experimental.\u201d<\/p>\n

During the recently-concluded 12th Havana Biennial, Julia presented the surprising Mi segunda piel<\/em> (My Second Skin), a project that she plans to expand, and whose media is an active element that expresses visual and tactile textures. \u201cCloth is not a passive element; it has folds and bumps upon which I place things because I want the cloth to transmit ideas.\u201d At this time, Julia Vald\u00e9s is concentrating on finishing the last (and tiny) details of her remodeled studio, a platform that will allow her to keep working, because with respect to her masterpiece, she says: \u201cI haven\u2019t made it yet.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Julia Valdes in her studio in Calle 5ta No15204, Nautico, Playa. Photo: Alain L. Guti\u00e9rrez Almeida<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Julia Vald\u00e9s (Havana, 1952). Cuban painter and printmaker. Graduate of the Jos\u00e9 Joaqu\u00edn Tejada School of the Visual Arts in Santiago de Cuba, in 1966, and of the National Art School (ENA), in 1972. She has held numerous collective and solo exhibitions, including El reverso del paisaje, Umbral de la nostalgia, Las puertas del reino, Memoria sobre los muros, Erosiones, Traves\u00eda, Todo mezclado and Signos del paisaje, among others. Her work can be found in public and private collections in France, the Dominican Republic, Germany, Colombia, Puerto Rico, United States, Austria and Spain.<\/p>\n

Av. 5ta no. 15204 e\/ 152 y 160, Reparto N\u00e1utico, Playa
\n+53 7 208 0095 | +53 5 293 9361
\njuvab@cubarte.cult.cu\u00a0 | www.juliavaldes.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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