Conrado R P Maleta'

Contemporary Cuban Art From Artist Conrado Maleta'

"An extraordinary master is at work in these images and we are grateful for the chance to collect him. The parables, the allegories, the references are so enriching -- it gives these images traction and staying power -- they are mesmerizing pieces to which our gaze returns again and again, as we try to suss out just what we feel about the underlying story. It is an adventure to live with these works". Brian Malik

BIO:
Since I was a kid in Cuba, I dreamed with a kind of way of life more less "nomadic". In some way doing arts was a spiritual and emotional answer to my wishes. I had the opportunity for putting my brain "out", flying to another galaxy, landing in many planets created by the imagination.
One day I was able to do a real, material movement for leave out my country and suddenly one morning I woke up in Madrid, Europe. I never came back to my country perhaps because once I started to "walk" the world I never felt able to do a single step back.
After years in Europe I moved to the telluric Middle East. That was a particular chapter in my personal voyage and it was rich in creativity, dense in emotions and hard in therms of daily, common urban living. One day I jus...

SOLO SHOWS AND INDIVIDUAL PROJECT EXHIBITIONS:
2012, December- "Neo-Byzantinisms and other nonsense". Galeria 904, Merida, Mexico.
2011, July- "Archaeology of the Future. Le Voyage Hebraique". Levendel & Bloch Gallery, Ein Hod, Israel.
2010, February- "Scenarios of life", Solo Show. Centro Cultural La Despernada, Villanueva de la Cañada, Madrid. Spain.
2007, August/2 to October/3- "Draw". Galerie Wünsch, VolksfeststraBe 36/1. Stock. Linz, Austria.
2005, April- “The history of 1 (one)” (collage and drawings in big format). Galería 1927, Ateneo Cultural Lic. Antonio Bravo Correoso. Santiago de Cuba. Cuba
2005, March- "Portraits of a Soul" (Paintings). Alliance Francaise, Santiago de Cuba, Espace culturele Vista Alegre. Cuba.
2004, August- "Bestiarium" (Drawings). Casa del Joven Creador (AHS). Santiago de Cuba. Cuba.
2003, December- "Memories of the Island-Man" (Drawings). Diego Velásquez Museum. Santiago de Cuba. Cuba.

COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS:
2013, December- Holiday Salon Show Extravaganza. Greenpoint Art Gallery, Brooklyn, New York. USA
2012, September- "Haobim Omanut 2012". Tel Aviv City Hall Cultural Area. Tel Aviv, Israel.
2012, August- "Excess 300- Surplus 3000" Nahriyaa, 25120 Kabri, Israel
2012, April- "Favorite...