Rogelio Puente

ROGELIO PUENTE (Cuba, 1936-1996).
Untitled, 1977.
Ink on paper.
Signed and dated.
Measurements: 43 x 34 cm; 61 x 51,5 cm (frame).
Rogelio Puente Díaz de la Rocha was born in Havana, in the bosom of a well-to-do family of Spanish residents in Cuba. His impeccable academic formation is developed between the Caribbean country, Canada and the United States. At the age of fourteen he moved definitively to Spain with his family, settling in La Coruña, where he continued his studies. He studied law in Santiago de Compostela and later completed his studies in England. He then moved to Madrid and it was there, delighting in the masterpieces discovered by the Prado Museum, when his artistic interests were strengthened and he began to reflect seriously on the plastic solutions required by his pictorial proposals. He travels to Italy and France in search of new artistic references, both classical and contemporary. He studied the first two years of Architecture and later four years of Decorative Arts. In 1976 he began a successful career of exhibitions and artistic prizes that began with his participation in the Biennial of Pontevedra, held that same year. He collaborates in the National Painting Exhibition in Bilbao and in the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid. He exhibits in several galleries in Galicia and in different American countries such as Brazil, Mexico, Dominican Republic or Argentina, as well as in France and New York. Rogelio Puente is an evoker of atmospheres and a magnificent portraitist. With a serene and solid personality, he faithfully and with dignity maintained a realistic line, even though he understood that he was living in the era of the awakening of Galician painting to formal innovations and to a more conceptual and committed art.