Jan Valdes Tellez

JAN VALDES TÉLLEZ (Cuba, 1979).
"The monkey, the forest and the man", 2019.
Oil on canvas.
Attached certificate of authenticity issued by the artist.
Signed and dated in the lower right area.
Measurements: 100 x 118 cm.
"The Monkey, the Forest and the New Man", is a piece intertextually related to the title of the short story "The Wolf, the Forest and the New Man" by the writer Senel Paz. In it, I face a dialogue with the anthropocentric hypocrisy of "human evolution". For this, I use pictorial art and its wisdom, through small modifications of cultural icons, I propose a reflection on the past, present and future of the species, where technology, while being liberation, has become an instrument of creation of a superlative ego: Jean Louis-David's Marat turned junkie, Klimt's muses worshipping a sex-toy, Jan Saudek's girl with a revolver, the sacred pixelated heart... all walking along the path of the yellow slabs, heading for the Land of Oz accompanied by the extractor of the stone of madness that Bosch gave us.
Jan Valdes Téllez is an artist of Cuban origin who currently resides in Madrid. He began his academic training at the National Academy of Fine Arts of San Alejandro in Havana, where he graduated in 2004. His works have been exhibited internationally, notably at the Toronto Art Fair, Canada, the Ludwin Foundation and the Fivars Galleries, Spain, among others.