Juan T. Vazquez Martin

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Juan T. Vazquez Martin (b. December 23, 1941) is a Cuban painter born in 1941 in Caibarien who lives and works in Havana, Cuba.

1 Biography
2 See also
3 External links

[edit] Biography

Vazquez Martin was elected President and Vice-President of the Painting section of the National Union of Cuban Writers and Artists (UNEAC) several times, in recognition of ‘his valour in defending contemporary painting in Cuba’, an office he held from 1989 to 1998. This painter is consider among the Cuban abstract painters masters. His work is held in a number of prestigious collections of national and international institutions including UNESCO International Association of Art (AIAP) in Paris, the Spanish Office of the European Economic Community, New York and the National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana, Cuba.

The Cuban painter and critic Manuel Lopez Oliva writes: 'Whoever looks at the modern paintings by Juan Vazquez Martin, can recognise in his way of painting the renaissance concept of "the window", the dissolution of forms discovered by Kandinsky and the sense of textural beauty opened up within contemporary painting by the ‘matiere’ artists. His style mixes skilfully the organic with geometry, order and dissonance, precise vision with suggestion. It is a language by itself, syncretic, and carrying a strong, delightful current that is felt when dealing with the implicit possibilities of working with the materials, instruments and procedures of the craft. It is, precisely, the key to his paintings.'

[edit] Charges and Formation

1963-1977 Founder, director and professor in different schools of Fine Arts.
1989-1998 Several times Painting section President or Vice-President in the Visual Arts Association of Writers and Artists Union of Cuba (UNEAC).
In 1957 he was granted a scholarship to study Visual Arts. In 1962, he was invited to participate in the São Paulo, VI Biennial, Brazil. In 1963 he graduated as a teacher of Drawing and Painting, and in 1990 as a specialist in Silk Screen.

[edit] Personal exhibitions

2005 Returning home, Caibarien gallery, Cuba
2005 ‘Abstractions in Havana Centre’, homage exhibition to Vazquez Martin by Culture Havana Centre, Chine Tradition House, Havana City, Cuba
2004 Exhibition in Mazorca, México City, México
2004- Three ways of Abstraction, Art Plastic provincial counsil Gallery, Santa Clara, Cuba
2000 “Show in Blue”, Nelson Museum, Monmouth, Wales, Great Britain.

[edit] Collective exhibitions

2006 Un son para Nicolas, Villa Manuela gallery, Havana, Cuba
2004- Exhibition of Cuban and Mexican artists, Cuban embassy, México.
2004- Abstraction Masters in Cuba, La Acacia Gallery, Ciudad Habana, Cuba
2003- Alive abstraction, VIII Bienal de la Habana, Galería en el CENCREM, Habana Vieja, Cuba
2003 “Cuban Painters”, Cuban Festival, London Hilton on Park Lane.
2003 and 2002 “Cuban Contemporary Painting”, La Acacia gallery, Havana City, Cuba.
2002 'Cuban Paintings', Hilton Hotel of Park Lane, London.
2002 'Cuban Paintings', Southampton University.
2002 Collective exhibition in Trail Artists Colony, Tampa, Florida, USA.
2001 "Cuban Painting", Cuba 513 Gallery, Madrid, Spain.
2001 "Cuban Painting", several galleries, Italy.
2000 England Exhibitions at: Taurus Craft, Lydney, , Parkfield Gallery, Pontshill, Gloucester Cathedral, Gloucester, Artists Corner, Chepstow, Gloucestershire.
1999 “Cuban Painting Today”, Museum Josefina Gallery, Managua, Nicaragua.
1999 “Alive Abstraction”, Wifredo Lam Centre, Havana, Cuba.
1997 Silence Paintings, VI Biennial of Havana, La Acacia Gallery, Havana, Cuba
1995 “Cuban Painters”, Social Development Summit and Head of States Meeting, Copenhague, Denmark.
1995 “Cuban Art”, Barcelona and Madrid, and in Sun Door Fair, Madrid, Spain.
1994 “A vision of Cuban Painting today”, Santiago de Chile, Chile.
1993 “Madrid House Fair”, Barcelona, Spain.
1992 Cuban stand of the World’s Fair, in Seville, Spain.
1990 “Cuban Painting Today”, Duris de Samos Gallery, Madrid, Spain.
1989 Contemporary Cuban Art, Westbeth Gallery, New York, USA.
1988 “Cuban Painting Exhibition”, travelling exhibition for different cities of Spain.
1987 I Biennial of Painting “Jaume Guash Foundation”, Barcelona, Spain.
1986 VI Triennial of India, (New Delhi,).
1985 He participated in International Prize for Drawing Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain.
1984, 1986 VII and VIII Biennial, Kosice, Czechoslovakia.
1976 Modern Cuban Painting, La Tertulia Museum, Cali, Colombia.
1972 “Chile-Cuba”, Culture Institute. Santiago de Chile.
1970, 1971 “The IX International Prize for Drawing Joan Miró”, Barcelona, Spain.
1970, ‘70 Salon’, Fine Art National Museum, Havana City, Cuba.