Ernesto Benítez does not hide his interest in dusting off and re-emerging different symbols already coined and legitimated by Western tradition in order to confront them with the new archetypes and liturgical paraphernalia of post-modernity in an attempt to establish a constant tension of memory…
After a long time away from the national exhibition scene, Cuban painter, draftsman and installation artist Ernesto Benítez returned to the island to inaugurate the exhibition Ab æternō, in his Open Studio, in the context of international visibility offered by the 13th Havana Biennial…
By Claudia Placeres Gómez
The creative pilgrimage, introspection and silence of Ernesto Benítez during the last seven years are translated into the rebirth of his work, which is sustained in the rigorous decantation of the precepts that have rightly defined him and the values that will compel him in the future. A stop along the way to revisit and dialogue with himself, to question his aesthetic discourse and to reinsert himself, taking advantage of the context of the XIII Havana Biennial, in an environment that, although distant at times, will never be alien to him..
By: Artcónica Team
After a long period of time away from the national exhibition scene, Cuban painter, draftsman and installation artist Ernesto Benitez returned to the island to inaugurate the exhibition Ab æternō, in his Open studio, taking advantage of the context of international visibility offered by the XIII Havana Biennial. Numerous friends, artists, art critics and curators, interested in reconnecting with the creator and assessing the trajectory of his visual production in recent years, have attended the space -eventually located in the Vedado…
By Ernesto Benítez
From the project “Seven Days of Silence” (which covers a period of seven years: 2011-2018 and includes numerous series of works) I give continuity, as an existential testimony, to that exploration around the hybridization of the identity principle in the West but with a line of research that places special emphasis no longer on the complementary ambivalences and antinomies, but on the concept of splitting as a Cultural Wound -in the social- and Psychological -in the personal-…
