Rodolfo Llópiz

RODOLFO LLÓPIZ CISNEROS (Havana, Cuba, 1966).
"Juntos pero no revueltos S/T I + Juntos pero no revueltos S/T III", 2005.
Photograph, issue 98/99.
Signed and numbered on the back.
Measurements: 70 x 50 cm.
In Rodolfo Llópiz's work, pictorial and photographic research is transformed into a passionate montage of familiar icons and signs. His works are a mixture of images in which he combines concepts considered contrary or different: the informal with the formal, the text with the image and the color with the black.
Rodolfo Llópiz studied at the San Alejandro Art Academy, the oldest art school in Latin America, and later trained in painting and engraving. In 1989 he began working in René Portocarrero's silkscreen workshop, which became the cultural center of Cuba in the 1990s and through which important artists such as Martín Chirino passed. There he made a folder of serigraphs as a tribute to Tino Casal. In January 1996, the Arci Nova Cultural Association invited him to Italy, along with five other Cuban painters, for the traveling exhibition Ver para creer (Seeing is Believing). Some time later he obtained a scholarship to make an engraving portfolio in Weimar (Germany). At that time he collaborated with the RAM gallery in Zurich and the Canvas gallery in Amsterdam. Later he traveled to Spain, where he lives today.