ARMANDO MARINO
GALLERI CHRISTOFFER EGELUND
ARMANDO MARINO
FAKE LANDSCAPES / MAY 28 - JUNE 19 Galleri Christoffer Egelund proudly presents “Fake Landscapes” which is the third solo exhibition by the New York based Cuban artist Armando Mariño. The exhibition title “Fake Landscapes” embraces the theme of societal illusion. The works become a way to comprehend the perplexities of the contemporary world. Large and small oil paintings hypnotize the eye of the viewer. The perspective is a society that has been formed, where significant issues and human relations has been constructed in order to please, or sugar-coat the truth, instead of questioning it. The use of natural elements such as flowers is Mariño’s way of highlighting superficiality. The “pretty” layer is a metaphor of a curtain thrown on the current affairs relating to politics, race, sexuality, ethnicity. The new paintings in this exhibition are a reaction to the latest events of 2020, which dramatically affected society including the art world. The thematic essence of the works thereby seems to lie as much in the unseen as in what is seen. The recent works show figures in landscapes which are the foundational components of Armando Mariño’s oeuvre. The perspective of the physique changes with each piece. Some are placed facing backwards, inviting the viewer to stand behind it and look in the same direction as the subject. When they are facing us, they become the central points of the compositions. The relations between landscape and figure as well as between human and nature gains metaphorical and symbolic character. The new series of oil paintings are filled with a highly vibrant colour palette. The deep dark figures and shapes rooted in Mariño’s compositions lead into the sophisticated and bright semblance of reds, oranges, yellows and other warm hues resulting in a flowing landscape that invites the viewer to dwell between the contrasts. We are reminded what Armando Mariño does in his works. He brings together the different experiences of his mixed identities as a Cuban living in the Western society. He adds the vibrancy, optimism and energy to the dull metropolis of capitalism, where connections, commerce and communications take over emotions and experiences. The oil paintings are visually powerful and remain politically and socially engaged. Armando Marino (b. 1968 in Cuba) lives and works in New York. He graduated from the Escuela Provincial de Arte “Joaquín Tejada” in Santiago de Cuba, 1987; Jose Varona Pedagogical Institute, Havana 1992 and from Rijksakademie Van Beldeende Kunsten, Amsterdam 2005. He has exhibited widely in Europe, USA, Africa and Cuba. His works are represented in major private and public collection around the world such as Deutsche Bank Collection; Shelley and Donald Rubin Collection, US; Coca-Cola Foundation, Spain; 21cMuseum, Kentucky, US; Centro Wifredo Lam, Havana, Cuba; ASU Art Museum, Arizona, US; Arttoteek Den Hagg, Nederland; National Museum of Valjevo, Serbia; University of Virginia Art Museum, US; Marcelino Botín Foundation, Spain; Howard Farber Collection, New York; Colección Berardo Museo de Arte Moderna, Sintra, Portugal; The Jorge Perez Collection, Miami, FL and The Museum of Fine Arts of Boston, MA, USA. Furthermore Mariño has been awarded The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2011 and The Christopher Reynolds Foundation grant in 2010.
ARMANDO MARINO Charm, 2021 Oil on canvas, 80 x 61 cm.
ARMANDO MARINO On Fire, 2021 Oil on canvas, 80 x 61 cm.
ARMANDO MARINO Fake Landscape II, 2021 Oil on canvas, 203 x 184 cm.
ARMANDO MARINO Fake Landscape, 2021 Oil on canvas, 147 x 170 cm.
ARMANDO MARINO Nemesis, 2021 Oil on canvas, 170 x 162 cm.
ARMANDO MARINO The African Art Collector, 2021 Oil on canvas, 218 x 179 cm.
ARMANDO MARINO Our Beutiful Monster, 2021 Oil on canvas, 152 x 122 cm.
ARMANDO MARINO Extasis, 2021 Oil on canvas, 102 x 76 cm.
ARMANDO MARINO Come With Me Brother, 2021 Oil on canvas, 80 x 61 cm.
ARMANDO MARINO The White Hand, 2021 Oil on canvas, 80 x 61 cm.
ARMANDO MARINO Don’t Gay Me Wrong, 2021 Oil on canvas, 61 x 80 cm.
ARMANDO MARINO The Tourist, 2021 Oil on canvas, 80 x 61 cm.
ARMANDO MARINO The Devil’s Music, 2021 Oil on canvas, 204 x 244 cm.
ARMANDO MARINO And God Said We Are All Equals, 2021 Oil on canvas, 80 x 61 cm.
ARMANDO MARINO Personal Touch, 2021 Oil on canvas, 80 x 61 cm.
ARMANDO MARINO The Curator, 2021 Oil on canvas, 80 x 61 cm.
ARMANDO MARINO BORN IN 1968 IN CUBA│LIVES AND WORKS IN NEW YORK EDUCATION 2004-2005 Rijksakademie van Beldeende Kunsten, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 1987-1992 Facultad de Educación Artística del Instituto Superior Pedagógico “Enrique José Varona”, Havana, Cuba. 1980-1987 Escuela Provincial de Arte “Joaquín Tejada”, Santiago de Cuba. Cuba. SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2021 “Fake Landscape”. Gallerie Christoffer Egelund. Copenhagen Denmark “Still I’ll Rise” Galerie Anne de Villepoix . Paris. Fr 2019 “La Selva Oscura” Faction Art Projects NYC USA 2017 “Watercolors”. Janine Bean Gallery Berlin Germany 2016 “Sweet Dreams”. The Watermill Center. Artist in Residence. NY USA “Recent Paintings”. Coates and Scarry Gallery. London UK 2015 Not all who wander are lost. Galerie Christoffer Egelund. Copenhagen. DK 2014 Recent Paintings after the Long Winter. 532 Thomas Jaeckel Gallery .NY USA Pinturas recientes. Fernando Pradilla Gallery. Madrid Spain 2013 Under the Red Light. Galleri Christoffer Egelund .Copenhagen 2012 “Recent Paintings from the Year of the Protester”. 8th Floor Space, New York, USA. “The Waste Land”. Thomas Jaeckel Gallery, New York, USA. “Under the Red Light”. Galleri Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen, Denmark. 2009 “Drilling America”. Pan American Art Projects, Miami, Florida, USA. 2007 “Tervuern’s Tales”. Grusenmeyer Art Gallery, Deurle, Belgium. “Interiors”. Fernando Pradilla Gallery, Madrid, Spain. 2006 “Crash/Clash”. Hof & Huyser Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. “The Night inside of the painter’s house”. Galerie Jean Brolly, Paris, France. 2005 “Beautiful World”. Project Room East, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, Holland.
“Recent Paintings”. Fernando Pradilla Gallery, Madrid, Spain. 2004 “Paintings”. Project Room East, Rijsakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, Holland. 2003 “Esteticamente correcto”. Fernando Pradilla Gallery, Madrid, Spain. 2002 “Arte en las Venas”. Sala Rivadavia, Fundacion de la Diputacion, Provincial de Cadiz, Spain. “Arte en las Venas”. Museo Cruz Herrera, La Linea de la Concepción, Cadiz, Spain. “From my bathtub”. Galeria RAY GUN, Valencia, Spain. “Con permiso de mi antropólogo”. Galeria Ad Hoc, Vigo, Spain. 2001 “Más Allá”. Museo Iberoamericano de Arte contemporáneo, Badajoz, Spain. “La angustia de las influencias”. Galería Theredoom, Barcelona, Spain. “In utero”. Gary Nader Fine Art, Miami, USA. 2000 “Más Allá”. Centro Wifredo Lam, Havana, Cuba. “Recent paintings”. International Art Studio, Valjevo, Serbia. 1999 “Recent Works”. Gary Nader Fine Art, Miami, Florida, USA. “Para los otros del tercer mundo”. Galería Ángel Romero, Madrid, Spain. 1998 “Obra Reciente”. Sala de Exposiciones Palacio de Abrantes, Salamanca, Spain. 1997 “Obra Reciente”. Galería Ángel Romero, Madrid, Spain. 1996 “Nostra Nusquama”. Galería Espacio Estudio, Havana, Cuba. “Des-Colon-izando el entorno”. Centro Wifredo Lam, Havana, Cuba. 1993 “Arqueología de la Simulación”. Centro de Arte 23 y 12, Havana, Cuba. SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2020 L’ Afrique Fantome. Manifesta Lyon In collaboration with Galerie Anne de Villepoix. Lyon France Winter Show. Galerie Christoffer Egelund. Copenhagen Denmark Regards hors-champ et paysages dans la collection Agnès B. La Fab. Paris. France 2019 Castles in the Sky. Fantasy Architecture in Contemporary Art. Coral Gables Museum. Miami FL USA Five Years. Livingstone Projects Berlin. The Hague Holland 2018 All that you have is your Soul. Faction Art Project. New York USA Ten Years After. 532 Thomas Jaeckel Gallery NY. USA Art & Life. Art Space Ben. Seoul South Korea Castles in the Sky. Fantasy Architecture in Contemporary Art. Lehman College. NY Outside Cuba Gericke + Paffrath Gallery Dusseldorf Germany Strange Bodies. Pulse Contemporary Art Fair represented by Coates and Scarry Gallery. Miami. Fl
2017 North by North of the Arctic. Arctic Issues. Center/Periphery. Anchorage Museum. Alaska. USA In situ: Visiones del paisaje de las Antillas. Museo de Arte Pio Lopez Martinez Universidad de PR Cayey Puerto Rico Without Mask. National Museum of Art. La Havana Cuba Pintura. Galeria Fernando Pradilla, Madrid Spain Artists in Purgatory. Jorge Reynardus’s Collection. Kendall Art Center. Miami FL USA Winter Show. Christoffer Egelund Gallery Copenhagen. Denmark 2016 An Island Apart: Cuban Artists In Exile Otterbein University, Ohio. USA Gestures of Faith in the Contemporary Cuban Art. The Rubin Museum New York USA Read my lips. Castrum Peregrini. Amsterdam. Holland Bedazzled. Lehman College Art Gallery. NY USA Sweet Dreams. The Watermill Center. NY USA 2014 Post Picasso: Contemporary Reactions. Museu Picasso Barcelona. Spain Without Mask. The von Christierson Collection / Watch Hill Foundation. Museum of Anthropology of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Shifting Alterity. Otherness in our Social Landscape .Skyline Gallery New York USA Giant Among Us. Corey Helford Gallery. Los Angeles. USA X’mas 14 The Annual Group Show. Galerie Christoffer Egelund. Copenhagen. Denmark. Lenguaje de papel. Galeria Fernando Pradilla. Madrid Spain. 2013 Fifteen. Recent Acquisitions from the Deutsche Bank Collection. USA Revolutionary Island:Tales of Cuban History and Culture. Sonoma Valley Museum of Art. California. USA Citizens of the World. Cuba in Queens. The Queen Museum. New York . USA Summer Exhibition. Galerie Christoffer Egelund . Copenhagen. Denmark Lenguaje de papel. Fernando Pradilla Gallery. Madrid Spain 2012 “Building Identities. Contemporary Cuban Art from the Shelly and Donald Rubin Private Collection”. Cleveland Clinic’s Art Program Arts & Medicine Institute, Ohio, USA. “Skyline Adrift. Cuban Art and Architecture”. Art Omi Sculpture Field Park, New York, USA 2011 “Sinergias. Latin-American Art in Spain”. Macuf Contemporary Art Museum Union Fenosa, Coruna, Spain. Open Studios ISCP, Brooklyn New York, USA. “Keloids. Race and Racism in the Cuban Contemporary Art”. The 8th Floor. Shelly and Donald Rubin Foundation, New York, USA. “Buy what you love 2011”. The Rema Hort Mann Foundation, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York. “The Museo’s Biennal (S) Files”. Museo del Barrio, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, USA 2010 “Without Mask. Contemporary Afro-Cuban Art”. Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa. “Cuban Avant-garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection”. Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Florida, USA. “Keloids”. Centro Wifredo Lam, Havana, Cuba. “Keloids”. Mattress Factory, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, USA. “Sinergias. Latin-American Art in Spain”. MEIAC, Badajoz, Spain. “Cuban Avant-garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection”. Katonah Art Museum, New York, USA. Open Studios ISCP, Brooklyn New York, USA.
2009 “Peregrinatio”. Arte en las Ermitas de Sagunt, Sagunt, Valencia, Spain. “Cuban Avant-garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection”. The Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada. 2008 “Deconstruct”. Hof & Huyser Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. “Cuban Avant-garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection”. Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, California, USA. “Visiones Publicas. Pasiones Privadas”. Contemporary Art Museum of Vigo, Vigo, Spain. “Something and Something Else”. Exhibition Oce Art Foundation in Museum Van Bommel van Dam, Venlo, The Netherlands. 2007 “Cuban Avant-garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection”. Harn Museum of Art, Florida, USA. “Cuban Avant-garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection”. Ringling Museum, Tampa, Florida, USA. “Restos. Estudio Arteologico. Muestra tematica de la coleccion permanente”. Contemporary Art Museum of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico. 2006 New Acquisitions, CBK Amsterdam, The Netherlands. “Looking Back, Looking Black African American, African, and Latino Images from the Robert E. Holmes Collection”. The Kansas African American Museum, Kansas, USA. “More than Meet the Eyes. Perspectives from The Robert E Holmes Collection”. California Africa-American Museum, Los Angeles, California, USA. 2005 “Contemporary Paintings of Latin-America”. The DeVos Museum, Northern Michigan University, USA. “Mi Cuerpo, Mi Pais. Cuban Art Today”. U.V.A Art Museum, University of Virginia, Virginia, USA. Open Ateliers. Rijskakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. “Berezdivin Collection”. Espacio 1414, Opening Exhibition, San Juan, Puerto Rico “Winter Show”. Hof & Huyser Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. “Young Painters”. Grusenmeyer Art Galerie, Deurle, Belgium. “New Paintings. Group show”. Hof & Huyser Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. New adquisitions. The Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. 2004 “Inside/outside. Contemporary Cuban Art”. Charlotte and Phillp Hanes Art Galllery, Wake Forest University, Florida, USA. “Collective”. Galeria METTA, Madrid, Spain. Open Ateliers. Rijskakademie van Beeldende Kunsten. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. “Affirming a Legacy. Art from Robert E. Holmes Collection H.C.”. Taylor Gallery of the Dudley Building, North Carolina, USA. 2003 “Centimetro a centimetro”. Fernado Pradilla Gallery, Madrid, Spain. “Catastrofe Minime”. Museo de Nuoro, Cerdana, Italy. “La Colección”. Espacio Camargo, Cantabria, Spain. “VIII Bienal de la Habana”. La Cabaña, Havana, Cuba. 2002 “Atravezados”. Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, Spain. “Show y Basura”. Foro Sur, Caceres, Extremadura, Spain.
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