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Showing posts with label Selgas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Selgas. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Final Group Shot / Tertulia Latina / Jadite Galleries

Thanks a lot to “Tertulia Latina” and Jadite Galleries….everybody else on this picture, and those who couldn’t stay longer, for making possible such an interactive ‘artist / viewers’ encounter.
  
Thanks to Rodriguez Calero for the graphic covering of the whole event…meaning…thanks dear RoCa! 

Cepp Selgas / "Jibara" and "Guajira" (Lone Star series) 2014 / Jadite Galleries 

Monday, November 24, 2014

Last Night At Tertulia Latina / Jadite Galleries No.2

All Photos by Rodriguez Calero

With Carl Rutberg, Ruperto Arvelo, Eliud Martinez, Nina Doran, and Gaddiel Lopez
Some of the gathering / "Tertulia Latina" at Jadite Galleries
With Carl and Ruperto

Sunday, November 23, 2014

Last Night At Tertulia Latina / Jadite Galleries No.1


(above) Before my art on display at Jadite Galleries / Ruperto Arvelo and Gaddiel Lopez from "Tertulia Latina" giving (both) introduction speeches  about the "Tertulia" project and my long trajectory on the Fine Art field.  (below) Here I m in the middle of "The King's Speech"...kind of of situation...doing my best. / Photos by Rodriguez Calero




      

Sunday, May 23, 2010

Oblivion No.3 / En busca del arte perdido...

...Busco noticias sobre obras de arte perdidas de Ernesto Briel y mías, durante la infortunada travesía marítima ; Puerto Rico –USA, 1997.
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Cepp Selgas / Tresjuanes No.8 / Stretcher assemblage-oil on canvas / 16.5X12in. /1987. (Oblivion)

All these pieces depicted below...click image...(Oblivion)

Cepp Selgas / Tresjuanes no.6 / Stretcher assemblage-oil on canvas / 19X19in. 1987. (Oblivion)

Saturday, May 22, 2010

Oblivion No.2 / En busca del arte perdido...

...Busco noticias sobre obras de arte perdidas de Ernesto Briel y mías, durante la infortunada travesía marítima ; Puerto Rico –USA, 1997.
Ernesto Briel / Big Gold / Oil on canvas / 60X60in. / 1985. (Oblivion)

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Samuel Feijóo / Revista Signos / No.19, 1976

DES-ART-CHIVANDO:
Briel / D / page No,106 / Signos, No. 19 / 1976.

Briel / E / page No,107 / Signos, No. 19 / 1976.

Selgas / A-a / page No,108 / Signos, No. 19 / 1976.

Como respuesta a las cartas recibidas por la revista, después de la sonada publicación del extenso grupo de dibujos de mi autoria, en el No. 18 de SIGNOS, 1976; Feijóo decidió publicarme en el siguiente e inmediato No.19, compartiendo espacio con nuestro “Pintor Nacional" - René Portocarrero y los muy reconocidos pintores; Ernesto Briel y Armando Morales. Para buen entendedor, pocas palabras.
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Selgas / E-e / page No,109 / Signos, No. 19 / 1976.

Portocarrero / T-A / page No,110 / Signos, No. 19 / 1976.

Portocarrero / D-I / page No,111 / Signos, No. 19 / 1976.

Le estaré eternamente agradecido a Samuel Feijóo, por “La Fe y el ojo”.

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Hablando Bloguerias No.29

The Sweet Bird Of Youth
Cepp Selgas / Tecnica mixta sobre papel / 18X24in. / 1987.

DES-ART-CHIVANDO:
El dulce pájaro de la juventud, forma parte de una serie de papeles que yo realicé a finales de los 80, en los que más allá del acostumbrado “acrílico sobre papel”, usé lápiz, crayón y Scotch-Tape como recurso experimental del tratamiento de la superficie en la obra pictórica.
Esta serie fue un trabajo independiente y a la vez muy similar estilísticamente a otra superproducción en la que trabajamos Ernesto Briel y yo, para ese entonces, pues estábamos publicando con la revista Art Works originado por los artistas emergentes de la ciudad de Nueva York, de formato 8 ½ X 11 in., con una edición limitada de 100 ejemplares, conformados por obras originales de otros muchos artistas.
El dinero generado por las ventas de estas originales revistas de arte, era usado para los costos de encuadernación, divulgación y promoción, etc.
Lamento mucho haber extraviado, en mis mudadas por el mundo estos históricos artefactos. Espero que en el misterioso futuro pueda tropezarme con ellos.
Al menos conservo la información de las tres ediciones en las que participamos Ernesto Briel y yo: “Art Works”, 1987-88, Vol. 4, No. 6, Diciembre –Enero, “Art Works”, 1987, Vol. 4. No. 4, Agosto-Septiembre, y “Art Works”, 1987, Vol. 4, No. 3, Junio-Julio.
Un producto completamente hecho a mano-para los ojos, y por amor al arte.

Sunday, April 11, 2010

MARIEL / Not Hemingway...exactly!

...a lot like Ernest though.
These four drawings of mine (all about Boats) were created in 1990 and published by "La Nuez" magazine, New York 1991. Edition and Direction of Rafael Bordao.
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The Mariel experience was definitely a drama by itself, but only after a whole decade went by, and based on my own experience I could finally make sense of the whole picture.
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It was not only the bad credentials given to us by the "Havana-medalagana-bitch". You see, before "1989-the fall of the Berlin Wall", it was trendy to be "lefty" in this country and the Western World in general, as dictated by the "infamous-Holy like-intelligence". Being Cuban artists and residents in USA by our own-will, was a disadvantage that other Cuban American artists didn't confront, because most of the Cubans in the art scene already here, were originally brought by their parents basically two decades before. And that explains "Los Maceitos".
Very simple "Maceitos:good, Marielitos:bad".

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Anyway, mine and Ernesto' agenda was to build a "human-life" first, and then "art-passion" will make it's way naturally.
Not an "starving artist project" at all.

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We were so happy to be out of Cuba, grateful for all the nice people we had the fortune to meet and lucky to have found art-related works and most important, the fact that we were living in freedom.
After all "The American Dream" was not what brought us here. It was "The Cuban Nightmare".