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Miguel Padura was born in Havana in 1957.
"I was four years old when my family moved to Rodas, in the province of Las Villas. My father was an engineer, and I wanted to be one. He would do a lot of drawings related to his profession, and I was always with him. That's how I started, although it was not until I was seventeen or eighteen that I seriously considered dedicating myself to painting. I took my first classes with Roberto Martínez. He taught me how to see and perceive through my own eyes, not through his, like so many teachers tend to do. He helped me develop what I had inside, my way of looking at things.
Although I have integrated the abstract into my work, I consider myself a figurative painter. I have always been fascinated by still-life, and although I may modify it in some way or other, it will always have a place in my work. For me, art means being able to bring to the surface one's deepest feelings, one's way of knowing and seeing the world the way one wants it to be seen. I am a bit selfish; I paint for myself, to please myself. Perhaps my Cubanness comes out subconsciously in my work. I remember Cuba as a tranquil place; there was solitude and silence. In this sense, Cuba influences my painting because tranquillity and seclusion at home are what I want to paint."
My work has always been committed to the realistic representation of the natural world, still lifes, the landscape, and human figures. However, my realism is not just straightforward imagery replicating a particular object, place, or person. Instead, it is imbued with a mysterious content from my fascination with things not wholly explained, like deep shadows with no direct reference and isolated personalities. There are allusions to Giorgio de Chirico and the Surrealists; both freed the eye to see the pure, inexplicable existence of things. There are also references to the American Realists of the twentieth century and the Spanish still life masters of the seventeenth century. Among their ordinary surroundings and friends and family, and in the shapes and textures of the banalest of objects, these artists perceived an extraordinary aesthetic context. As a modern painter, I pay tribute to all of them as a part of my artistic heritage while I continue to explore the art of painting and all it is capable of representing.
- Creator:Miguel Padura (1957, Cuban)
- Dimensions:Height: 30 in (76.2 cm)Width: 40 in (101.6 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Miami, FL
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU154129974662
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