Enrique Silvestre

Luis Enrique “Silvestre” Guerra is a contemporary Cuban artist, born in 1966 in Havana but raised in Hershey (a Cuban model town founded by the chocolate tycoon around a sugar plant in 1916). At the age of 16, he moved back to Havana to continue his studies. He had brief passages at the Escuela Provincial de Artes Plásticas San Alejandro (San Alejandro Provincial Arts School) and the ISDI Istituto Superior de Diseño (Superior Institute of Design) before he landed a job as Graphic Designer at the Bohemia Magazine - first news and culture magazine in Latin America, published in Cuba since 1908.
His work and experiences with Havana cultural environment led to his first artworks, a series of gouache over carton drawings that earned him a Mention at the 1988 Salón de la Ciudad de Havana, and an invitation to join the prestigious ISA (Superior Institute of Arts), where he was mentored by artists such as Flavio Garciandía, Eduardo Ponjuán, and Osvaldo Sanchez, exponents of the 80’s Generation movement. Silvestre decided to leave Cuba and move to Brasil in 1999, after a decade of severe effects of the “Periodo Especial” (an economic crisis sparked by the fall of the Soviet Republics). He now lives and works in the creative Vila Madalena n...

ISA Superior Institute of Art, Havana, Cuba - Graduation in Fine Arts, 1988-1993.
ISDI Superior Institute of Industrial Design, Havana, Cuba - Graduation in Graphic Design, 1984-1986.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
- 2005 X.Y.Z – Alceu Amoroso Lima Public Library Auditoriun, São Paulo, Brazil
- 2002 Cultural Center Laurinda Santos Lobo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- 2001 Toda Erva é Carne (Every Herb is Flesh), National Museum of Fine Arts, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- 1993 Silvestre entre Silvestre, Un Estudio Sobre la Pintura Naif (Silvestre on Silvestre, A Study on Naif) Teodoro Ramos Blanco Gallery, Havana, Cuba.
- 1993 Indios, Cisnes y Otras Cosas (Indians, Swans and Other Things). Two-Artists exhibition in Sala Talia, Havana, Cuba.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- 2015 Latin American Art Pavillion. Red Dot Fair 2015. Miami, USA
- 2015 British Cultural Center, Sao Paulo, Brazil ǀ Centro Cultural Británico, São Paulo, Brasil.
- 2015 20th Salon of Visual Arts of Vinhedo, São Paulo, Brazil.
- 2001 The Meeting, Cultural Space through Park, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ǀ La Reunión, el Espacio Cultural a través del Parque, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
- 1999 Pintura e Individuaçao ǀ Painting and Individuality, Art Festival Porto Alegre, Brazil.
- 1996 Biennial of Cuenca, Ecuador.
- 1996 Río Almendares: ni fresa ni chocolate (River Almendares: neither strawberry nor chocolate), Centro Nacional de Conservación, Restauración y...