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Ernesto Fernandez NoguerasFidel C. (Fidel Castro Cutting Canes)1968
1968
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This artwork titled "Fidel C. (Fidel Castro cutting cane) 1968 (printed later) is a gelatin silver print by noted Cuban artist Ernesto Fernandez Nogueras, b.1939. It is signed, titled and dated at the lower margin. The photograph size is 11.75 x 10.25 inches, framed size is 17.85 x 15.85 inches. Custom framed in a black frame, with white matting. It is in excellent condition.
About the artist:
Ernesto Fernandez trained under the tutelage of several established photographers during the 1950s in Havana. He is one of the four great photographers of the Revolutionary period of Cuba.
As a young man he witnessed both the excesses of Havana as a “playground” of the USA, and the poverty that produced the hotbed of revolutionary thought and action. He was in the Cuban capital as the revolution reached its climax, and his pictures document a time of great hope. They are celebrations of youth’s ability to bring about change and to reinvent a new world.
Alongside Korda, Salas and Corrales, Fernandez documented the heady days of the Triumph of the Revolution and continued to photograph Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and other leading lights of the new system, including some wonderfully intimate studies of Alicia Alonso, Cuba’s greatest ballerina.
After Fidel Castro’s regime was installed in 1959 he worked for the newspaper Revolucion and during his time as a journalist covered conflicts including the Bay of Pigs invasion and wars in Angola and Nicaragua. He was also a founding member of Cuba’s Union of Artists and Writers in 1961 (UNEAC). Ernesto Fernandez continues to photograph Cuba and to teach a new generation of artists.
He is only the second photographer ever to be awarded Cuba’s National Prize for the Visual Arts (2011).
Studies
He began his photography studies from 1952 to 1958 with photographers Carlos Fernández, Generoso Funcasta, Raúl Vales, and José Agraz. He also studied journalism at the University of Havana from 1975 to 1979.
He is honored to be a member of the International Journalism Organization (IJO) and the Latin American Federation of Journalists (FELAP).
Professional activity
He began his career in the art world as an assistant draftsman for Carteles Magazine from 1952 to 1956. He also worked as:
• 1955-1958: Lighting Engineer and Set Designer. Prometeo Theater, Havana.
• 1956-1958: Designer, Illustrator, and Photographer. Carteles Magazine, Havana.
• 1958-1964: Photographer. Revolución Newspaper, Havana.
• 1959: War correspondent in Venezuela , Castro León invasion. Revolución newspaper, Havana.
• 1961: Founding Member. Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC).
• 1961-1962: War correspondent at Playa Girón and the October Crisis, Revolucion newspaper, Havana.
• 1961-1965: Photographer. Mella Magazine, Havana.
• 1962: Member. Union of Cuban Journalists (UPEC).
• 1963: War correspondent, Fight Against Bandits, Mella Magazine, Havana. 1964 : Photographer, Cuba Magazine, Havana.
• 1965: War correspondent, Fight against pirates, Cuba Magazine. Havana.
• 1966-1968: Photographer. House of the Americas , Havana.
• 1975-1981: Head of the Information Department. Cuba Internacional Magazine, Havana.
• 1981-1983: War correspondent in Angola .
• 1983: Advertising consultant. Telcor, Nicaragua .
• 1984: War correspondent in Nicaragua.
• 1988: Chief Photographer, Cuba Internacional Magazine, Havana. Contributor, Prisma Magazine, Havana.
• 1994: Independent creator.
Critic's opinions
His epic images have had a great impact, most of them captured during missions as a war correspondent in Venezuela (1959), Playa Girón (1961), Angola (1981-83) and Nicaragua (1983).
Critics have praised his work as a visual repertoire that breaks down the boundaries between photojournalism and photo essay.
For his high-quality photographic work, which combines aesthetic experience with transcendent testimonial values, photographer Ernesto Fernández was proclaimed the 2011 National Prize for the Plastic Arts.
Solo exhibitions
1. 1962: Playa Girón. 1st Anniversary. Provincial Directorate of the Union of Young Communists , Prado and Virtudes, Havana.
2. 1965: Fight against bandits. Ministry of Construction, Havana.
3. 1971: Fighting Bandits, Girón, and the Centennial Youth Column. 3 Essays. (Central Library), Leipzig, GDR/Tokyo; Osaka, Japan; Leningrad , USSR
4. 1972: Playa Girón. International Art Center, Havana.
5. 1973: Two moments of the microbrigades. Ministry of Construction, Havana. Playa Girón. La Antigua Cubana Factory, Havana.
6. 1974: The new communities. DESA Provincial Directorate, Havana.
7. Girón. War Report from a Photographer. Centro Habana Regional, Havana.
8. 1979: Ernesto Fernández Photographic Exhibition, April. Small Hall, National Museum of Fine Arts , Havana.
9. 1985: We were born to conquer, not to be defeated. May. Galería Habana, Havana.
10. We were born to win, not to be defeated. Union of Cuban Journalists (UPEC), Havana.
11. 1987: Revolution [July 15]. Servando Cabrera Moreno Gallery, Havana.
12. Angola. Union of Cuban Journalists (UPEC), Havana.
13. 1992: Ernesto Fernández Photograph in Kuba. Landratsamt, Waiblingen, Germany .
14. 1997: Ernesto Fernández Anthological Exhibition. Sassari, Nuoro and Macomer, Sardinia, Italy .
15. 2004: Ensemble of Works, Photo Library of Cuba , Havana.
16. With the magic of your art. Villa Manuela Gallery. UNEAC, Havana.
17. 2006. A sound for Nicolás, Villa Manuela Gallery, Havana.
18. Reunions, Convent of San Francisco de Asís, Havana.
19. 2007. Photography and Memory, Society of Friends of the Country, Malaga, Spain.
20. 2012. Memoirs. Ernesto Fernández, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana.
21. 2022. Ernesto Fernández: Beyond the Epic. Cuban Photo Library. Exhibition part of the final project of the Department of Art History, University of Havana, by Lic. María Alejandra Rojas.
Collective exhibitions
Throughout his career, he has participated in a large number of exhibitions alongside other artists, including:
1. 1962: 10 Years of Revolution. USSR, Algeria , France , China , Hungary , North Korea , Czechoslovakia , Romania , Poland , Belgium , Finland , Japan , Bulgaria , Norway , GDR , Holland and Denmark .
2. 10 Years of Revolution. National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana.
3. 1965: First Cuban Cultural Exhibition. Cuba Pavilion, Havana.
4. 1967: Expo'67. Cuban Pavilion, Montreal , Canada .
5. 1968: Cuban Culture Exhibition. Grenoble, France
6. 1970: The House on the 11th Anniversary of the Revolution. Latin American Gallery, Casa de las Américas, Havana.
7. Hall 70. National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana.
8. 1978: Made in Latin America I. First Exhibition of Contemporary Latin American Photography. Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City, Mexico
9. UNEAC Plastic Arts Salon 1978. National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana.
10. 1979: History of Cuban Photography, Carrillo Gil Art Museum, Mexico City, Mexico.
11. Made in Latin America. Photography: Venezia '79. Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy
12. Soirée Latinoamericaine. Rencontres Internationales de Photographie. Arles, France.
13. 1983: Cuban Photography. Retrospective Exhibition. National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana.
14. 1984: Third Latin American Photography Colloquium. Casa de las Américas, Havana.
15. Made in Latin America. National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana.
16. 1985: Cuba: a view from inside. 40 Years of Cuba life in the work and words of 20 photographers. Ledel Gallery, New York.
17. 1986: Cuba: a view from inside. Photographic Resource Center, Boston University, Boston.
18. 1991: Cuba (1841-1991): Time and its image, Fototeca de Cuba, Havana, Cuba.
19. 1993: The Unfaithful Image, Photo Library of Cuba, Havana.
20. 1994: 45 years of Cuban photography (traveling through several countries, including Brazil and Cuba.
21. 1995: The 50th anniversary of Cuban photography (1st part), France.
22. 2001: Epic Photography of the Cuban Revolution, New York.
23. Dialogue with Photography, Haydeé Santamaría Gallery, Casa de las Américas.
24. 2002: Framing Cuba. Photographs by Ernesto J. Fernández. La Recoleta Cultural Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
25. 2003: The History of Photography in Cuba, National Museum of Antiquities, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
26. 2004: Cuban Art at the New Arch of La Défense, Paris, France. Looking Back at the 60s, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba. The History of Photography. Museum Negara, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
27. 2005: A Year in Review. Villa Manuela Gallery, UNEAC, Havana, Cuba.
28. 2006: A Son for Nicolás. Villa Manuela Gallery, UNEAC, Havana, Cuba. The Revolutionary Epic in Cuba, SENAC, Sao Paolo, Brazil. Reunions. San Francisco de Asís Convent, Havana, Cuba.
Awards
This is the second time that this award, the most important recognition in this field conferred by the Ministry of Culture and the National Council of Plastic Arts, has been awarded to a master of photography, having been bestowed upon Raúl Corrales Fornos in 1996 .
• 1988: Distinction for 25 Years of Journalistic Work. Union of Cuban Journalists (UPEC), Havana, Cuba. Distinction for National Culture, Council of State, Republic of Cuba.
• 2000: Ibero-American Photography Award. Harvard University, Massachusetts, Boston, United States of America.
• 2005: Ibero-American OLORUM Award. Ibero-American Photography Fund, 3rd Congress on Culture and Development, Havana, Cuba.
• 2011. National Prize for Plastic Arts awarded by the National Council of Plastic Arts, Havana.
- Creator:Ernesto Fernandez Nogueras (1939, Cuban)
- Creation Year:1968
- Dimensions:Height: 17.85 in (45.34 cm)Width: 15.85 in (40.26 cm)Depth: 0.85 in (2.16 cm)
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- Gallery Location:San Francisco, CA
- Reference Number:Seller: fer/cas/011stDibs: LU666316674202
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