The inaugural exhibition of Pedro Vizcaíno, Pablo Gonzalez -Trejo and Florencio Gelabert, three artists of Cuban origin who live in Miami, presents the development of plasticity in painting, graphics and installation, each completely distinctive, confronting an ominous present. These artists link their work to the social and political condition of humanity in the face of all kinds of violence, real and virtual, near and far, brutal and ironic.

Pedro Vizcaíno animates artificial objects: men’s guns. His series “Gangueros” bestow a personalized soul to pistols, or common firearms used for attack or defense. His freeform outlines, the strokes of his brush, the dramatic explosions of color, the grotesque deformation of parts come together in the irony of violent death. Vizcaíno does away with representational space, the urban context, in order to let the guns float in the nothingness of their own force, destruction and death. Departing from the imagery of children’s cartoons, his work is marked by energetic drawing and the physical absence of the human. Thus the “will” of the weapons expound something that fall between the bizarre and pathetic, where they act out with a sardonic self-consciousness.

Human vanities increase every day. The flesh and body, the breath, all is scrupulously analyzed, scrutinized, practically regulated by supposed human civilization. The expressive character of the paintings of Pablo González-Trejo turns on the juicy liquid effusion of flesh, speaks about the ephemeral existence of physical substance that comprises the body in constant metamorphosis. Pablo captures the flesh or the body in a way similar to cannibalism, exposes in an act without pretexts the sale and consumption of organs or the body of animals. The treatment of color in his work denotes a high contrast with pathological ends, where he emphasizes putrefaction, the flow of blood spilling out in order to be consumed again later.

The sculptures and installations of Florencio Gelabert emerge from the constant metamorphosis of the planet and its organisms facing the unparalleled and apocalyptic devastation of nature by man. Artificial materials adhere to living organisms like fungus or larvae that invade and constantly decompose. Natural and artificial materials combine in a sinuosity organic in voluminous substance, which draws the spectator into a mild mood, when in reality these forms and substances reveal the open cracks of the planet facing evident catastrophic change.

- Ana Quiroz