René Francisco (1960) - Ignopolis. Serie.

René Francisco. Cuba. 1960 Category: Engravings and Prints Graphic Work Series: Ignipolis Editor: Del Campo and others. Taller del Prado. Madrid. Technique: Lithography Support: Conqueror Connoiseur 300 g/m2 paper Dimensions: 62 x 82 cm – (50 x 70 cm plate) Edition: 100 copies The numbering of the copy may vary but always within the certified edition of 100 original pieces, signed and hand-numbered. P/A: 10 H.C.: 10 P/T: 5 Genre: Abstract, Geometric Belonging to a generation of artists that emerged at the end of the eighties, René Francisco Rodríguez (Holguín, Cuba, 1960) was distinguished at the National Museum of Fine Arts with the National Award for Visual Arts 2010. This prize, awarded annually by the Cuban Ministry of Culture since 1994, is given once to a living visual artist resident in the country for a lifetime body of work. This is the first time it has been awarded to an artist born after 1959. René Francisco graduated from the National School of Art (ENA) in 1982 and from the Superior Institute of Art (ISA) in 1987, a center where he has carried out a non-orthodox teaching. Since the nineties of the 20th century, he became a mandatory reference within Cuban art in his duo with Eduardo Ponjuán and later for his solo career. His artistic discourse has maintained a constant ascent, combining experimentation, renewal, research, critical sense, and social interest; affinities that also occur in his transgressive pedagogical work, which forms an indivisible unity with the entirety of his creation. René Francisco has proven to be a "facilitator or medium"—as he recently defined himself—for more than one generation of emerging artists, some of whom are today recognized figures of the Cuban visual movement. His pedagogy, which now spans twenty years, gained international recognition for the first time at the VII Havana Biennial, when in 2000 he was awarded the UNESCO Prize for the promotion of the arts to Galería DUPP—third edition of their project Desde una Pragmática Pedagógica. Subsequently, the Honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute in California, United States, in 2001 acknowledged both his work as an artist and his teaching. From his creative energy stand twenty-four solo exhibitions held to date. Among the most relevant in the last five years are: his exhibition at the 52nd Venice Biennale, Italy (2007), Crossed Histories at PanAmerican Art Projects, United States (2008), and in Havana, the shows Interprete (2009) and Paintings of yesterday and tomorrow (2010). Obligatory precise mention of his socially oriented work known as Patio de Nin, in the El Romerillo neighborhood (2004/2005) - to cite just one example - and also his collective project Plaza almada (2009), linked to residencies, workshops, and workshops in different places around the world. The multifaceted and dynamic work built by René Francisco, linked to the social, critical and irreverent, refers not only to existential problems of the country but also to the intricacies of its history. The procedural character of that work and its performativity have risen, just as his artistic practice asserts his belief that art meets life, dissolves in it, and can transform it. He has currently become part of several of the most important collections in Spain, in addition to those where he is represented, such as the Jorge Pérez collection of Miami, Ella Fontanal de Cisneros, etc. He is preparing for November 2026, as curator of the exhibition at Casa de América on the occasion of the Ibero-American Heads of State Summit.

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