Tomás Esson "The Return of the Dragon"
Galeria Ramis Barquet (Chelsea)
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One of the most controversial artists to emerge from Cuba's Eighties Generation, Esson has spent the last two decades crafting an aesthetic language unlike that of any of his compatriots. A figurative painter focused on the workings of the flesh and the grotesque, he envisions in his canvases the nude as an intense composite of appendages and orifices, what the artist deems "the most important masculine and feminine attributes."
Raw, rude, provocative and sentimental, Esson's paintings capture the primal innocence of sexual ecstasy. Edward J. Sullivan said, "Looking at his paintings is often like being slapped in the face." The viewer is repeatedly confronted with figures composed of disembodied genitalia, hunks of raw flesh and fluid. In his monumental Retratos, half-human beings merge in blissful harmony, secreting life's essence from every orifice, while in his Wet paintings, myriad mucous membranes intertwine in a frenzy of joyous copulation. These new paintings confirm Esson's reputation as a key artist of his generation.
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from May 06, 2010 to June 26, 2010