By Darys J. Vázquez Aguiar
Ernesto Benítez is focused on a constant and deliberate quest to understand the human condition through his art. His main obsession has become a serious ontological exploration, of the mind and the body. Thus, in his most recent project, One and a Thousand Eyes, Benítez seeks to decipher existential and cosmological secrets through an interior monologue. The daily exercise of self-reflection transforms the artist into a monk of his own practice, and his creative method into a ritual.
By: Ivonnett Arcia Zamora
An aspect of Cuban plastic arts production developed in the eighties, taking advantage of the interdisciplinarity established by post-modernity and, consequently, the expansion of art into fields considered by tradition as “extra-artistic”, based its reflections on man in anthropology. Thus, introspective research was supported by the epistemic, methodological and practical principles of this knowledge. The artistic proposals became disturbing inquiries into the nature of man, the complexity of his processes of signification and the structures of social and cultural interaction…
