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Star of July – Antonio Gonzalez Nuñez
Antonio Gonzalez-Nuñez was born in Havana, Cuba. As a child he was fascinated with drawing and painting. During his early years he remembers spending hours with his grandfather drawing with any material and media he could find. Antonio graduated from the National School of Design in Havana in 1978. Two years later he came to the United States with the Mariel exodus.
In 1995 Antonio met Baruj Salinas, and developed a completely new approach to his art. Antonio’s work has been recognized by important collectors in the United States and Europe. He has participated in several solo and collective art shows. In addition he has done illustrations for different publications and completed a large project for an upscale hotel in Washington DC. Antonio actually lives in Miami, Florida and Paris, France .
Statement of his work
For Antonio, painting is an escape from daily reality, an approach to a magic and imaginary world where memories of his infancy are brought to light through his personages. Symbols of innocence lost and scenes of his childhood reappear in his art. The work of Antonio Nunez is seen from a reference point based on primitive cultures but within a cosmological vision dealing with today’s human, social and spiritual context. Antonio’s art could be perceived as a magical amulet that confronts hostile forces, erotic or shameless impulses, and serves as protection. In his long artistic career, his work has developed a cryptogram that offer the opportunity to create a language that does not exist, and express feelings that cannot be described.
In his creative process Antonio Nunez show us personages with a quasi-primitive purity: some are like monoliths; others like elements belonging to a fantasy world; others like figures that bring us to a time of fire and iron and others like imaginary birds, vessels and plants traveling in a world of light and shadows where magic and mystery live in perfect harmony.
Edited by Ilona Kaszanyi
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Star of July – Antonio Gonzalez Nunez « Blue LineJul 2, 2012 at 3:54 am
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Carlos ColladoAug 8, 2012 at 12:44 am
Es increible lo que un artista puede hacer y a veces no nos damos cuenta de todo lo maravilloso de su obra.
A veces estamos tan “sordos” a lo que “grita” un artista a travez de su trayectoria y sus manos, que cuando nos damos cuenta ya es tarde, se nos fué de nuestro alcance y pasa a ser un referente. Si, ya sé… siempre nos preguntamos como fué que sucedió?. La explicación es muy simple como dijo Nuestro Señor Jesucristo: “Nadie es Profeta ni en su pueblo ni en su familia”.
Querido Tony, te deseo que Dios te bendiga por tu obra y que sigas adelante con ese caráter y toque cubano que a todos nos deja asombrados y esperando mas de tu conocer. Nosotros estaremos con los ojos bien abiertos, para no perdernos nada de tu trayectoria y de bien hacer.
Atentamente.
Carlos Collado.