Contemporary Art > Latin American / Cuban Paintings > Cuban Artist > Alexis Lago

“I dream with a shore, birds at sunset flying
in pursuit over the water and disappearing
from sight with each folding of their wings.

Just like our loves and prayers”.

Excerpt from Landscape Painted with Tea.

“Man, a mobile entity, is a traveller par excellence. Subject to the paradox of polarity, he lives, dreams and exalts in the decision, or the indecision between this or that road, this route or another. And the means for the journey are determined by preferences or by chance.

The Art of Alexis Lago asserts his choice in an archetypal object, a vessel, symbol of voyages, and traces his way through an infinite sea. Lago’s preference connotes an inherent insularity and an aesthetic sense expressed in paintings of values where contrasts are diluted in an atmosphere of interior spaces.

His boats are fragile pretences transporting all sorts of richly symbolic anthropomorphic beings; human or others that cherish precious trusts: eggs, fish, birds. But these “Navigations” are obviously difficult, not free of traps and falls. This makes necessary the scheme of threads that sometimes helps to maintain a precarious balance but can also become nets that impede and mislead the voyager.

The fruitful junctions of rider-mount, voyager-vessel, and other associations assume a lewd sense underlining the necessary symbiosis towards a successful voyage. A painter of subtleties, of an ontological yearning, Alexis Lago orchestrates tonalities that range from ferruginous warmth to the greyish blues of a hopeful dawn. His conceptual expressions, with symbolic overtones, reveals a thread of fine perception leading to man’s most deeply rooted journey and destination: Love”.

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