Butterfly Man
Exhibition from May 13 2017 to June 24 2017
Oscar Oramas is a Cuban artist. Since 1995, he has lived and worked in Mexico City, where he also studied.
After graduating in graphic design, he was awarded a scholarship by the Mexican government to pursue his master's degree in visual arts at the Academia de San Carlos. Oramas' Cuban origins shine through in his vibrant canvases. There's a unique blend of tropical pastels and fresh expressionist brushstrokes.
As Oramas puts it: “My paintings are scenarios that connect the abstract painting of the great masters of the Fifties with the mystical and romantic tradition of landscape painting. They are atmospheres endowed with a strong humanistic character, contrasting the resources of modernity with the physical painting of abstract expressionism.”
His work has been described as particularly “coherent and sincere” for a young artist. Oscar Oramas has exhibited in Mexico, Spain and the United States. “Oscar is metaphysical, mythological, goyesque... Necessary. One senses his disgust with so many things, his desire to disturb by telling the truth, the truth of a universe entirely articulated around a myriad of Freudian faces, both pictorial and psychoanalytical, all caught between the constancy of myth and the surrealism of the everyday. In the middle, precise flesh, vicious Ouroboros, poetic and shivering drawings, including “The Hare, Perfume and Bullets”, which could have been the subtitle of the Manifesto. One also senses an extreme awareness of the symbolic, a perfect management of language and culture, a revision and a ras-le-bol of his narratives (of those that don't allow us to escape to the real, that protect us, wrap us as in a warm cloak in the demands and distractions of secondary narration.”
Roc Laseca, 2013
“En mis pinturas busco la distensión de las posibilidades emocionales del medio. Sincretismo entre abstracción y figuarición, están corruptas desde su génesis. Pintura mestiza que incorpora brochazos pesados, arabesco, capas tejidas que se acaban desdibujando unas a otras hasta convertirse en una maraña con vida propia. Mi pintura está tamizada por el dibujo. Yuxtapone abstracción orgánica con geometría modernista. Expresionismo abstracto con caligrafía y gesto lírico. Acto físico y ejercicio intellectual.”