José Fuster

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José Fuster

José Antonio Rodríguez Fuster (born August 6, 1946 in Caibarién , Cuba ) is a Cuban artist , a representative of the naive art direction . He lives and works in Havana .

Early life

Fuster grew up in the coastal town of Caibarién as the son of a working class family who lived from fishing. In 1961 he took part in the Cuban literacy campaign . In 1963 he began studying art in Havana.

Artistic life

Fuster has been working as a freelance artist since 1966. His work is inspired, among others, by the architect Antoni Gaudí and the painters Pablo Picasso and Jean Dubuffet . He toured Europe, where he saw works by Gaudí in Barcelona and Constantin Brâncuși in Romania.

Around 1980 he went to the Jaimanitas district in northwest Havana. There he first lived in a wooden house. He changed this as well as more than 80 other house facades - in cooperation with the house owners. In 1984 he took part in the 4th International Ceramic Symposium in Römhild.

Fuster designs colorful house walls, roofs, house entrances, benches, sculptures and mosaics. In his symbolic language he uses mermaid , fish, palm, rooster and Santería saint figures, which have references to the literature of Alejo Carpentier , Onelio Jorge Cardoso and Ernest Hemingway . Fuster financed the art objects designed in Jaimanitas from the sales income from his exhibitions. He organized more than 100 solo exhibitions of his paintings and ceramics worldwide. His son Alex is his manager.

gallery

  • House facade of a family doctor in Jaimanitas

  • Entrance to the theater in Jaimanitas

  • Fuster worked on the Arca de la Libertad ( Revolution Museum)

  • Chess Park in Jaimanitas

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c José Fuster. Painter - Sculptor . In: havana-cultura.com . Accessed September 7, 2012.
  2. ↑ Marta Rojas: Fuster in search of a dream ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Granma , August 24, 2005. Retrieved September 7, 2012. (Eng.) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.granma.cu

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personal data
SURNAME Fuster, José
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rodríguez Fuster, José Antonio (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cuban artist
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Caibarién