Yoel Santana

My paintings are tangible expressions of my love for life, nature, music, and a remarkable existentialism.
  Art is my passion, my heavenly gift and punishment. I visualize it as an organic and active process that seeks new solutions and proposals, once I start to paint I never stop until workpiece is finished. Space and Time are caught in the act itself.
I like to experiment with alternative methods and pigments, I challenge myself to assume risks, cause accidents, provoke Art; but always return to my spatulas my oil on canvas and its infinite possibilities.
Every time I paint, my world of consciousness disregards my will, it escapes from my inner reality, it is when my spirit embraces the unknown masterpiece and I come back to life, start breathing again, the surreal image turns into palpable strokes, then I am just a brush, another element in the great painting we live in, life.

1993: Bachelor of Education specializing in Fine Arts at Higher Pedagogical Institute "Félix Varela" Villa Clara, Cuba.

Collective Exhibits
2012: Ta Project Gallery: “La Patrona del Sol” Exhibition.
2003: Exhibition "Homage to Compay Segundo" Bodeguita del Medio, Distrito Federal, Mexico,
2003: International "South Cultural Project", Havana,
2001: International "VISUARTE 2001", Cienfuegos, October,
2000: "The Island, the flag, symbols of nationhood in Cuban art." Centre for Development of Cuban Art, New York, February,
2000: Provincial Exhibition of Plastic Arts "September 5", Cienfuegos,
1996: XII Hall of the Fine Arts and Design, Villa Clara,
1996: Samuel Gallery, Central University of Las Villas, Villa Clara,
1996: Chamber Artists XII Provincial Festival of the FEU fans, Villa Clara,
1995: XI Hall of the Fine Arts and Design, Villa Clara, 
1995: Hall of Visual Arts, Cumanayagua, 
1995: Gallery "Fidelio Ponce de León", Villa Clara,
1995: Hall Festival of Amateur Artists FEU, Faculty of Humanities, Pedagogical Institute "Félix Varela", Villa Clara,
1994: Provincial Folk Art Fair, Cienfuegos,
1994: X Hall of the Fine Arts and Design, Villa Clara,
1994: Visual Arts Room, House of Culture, Cumanayagua
1994: Chamber Artists XII Provincial Festival of the FEU fans, Villa Clara, 
1994: Hall of National Artists Festival XII fans of FEU, ...