Fernando Toledo

Fernando Toledo

"In my work, I seek the vital force of color, pure and illuminated like the windows in the old colonial churches that surrounded my childhood in the streets of Habana Vieja, (Cuba). At the same time I touch upon present-day subjects such as nostalgia, solitude, or individual freedom. I attempt to find hope, light ... digging into human and divine areas, from before and after, it is my life experience, my natural instinct, everything manifested in the woman as a starting point, as a source of all creation, undoubtedly a personal fascination of mine... As a path, I am interested in spontaneity, passionate and free execution, figurative art, the uninhibited strokes of the paintbrush, choosing the lines and the color almost emulating stained-glass windows to consecrate the ordinary daily life represented, to make sacred those moments where we are truly ourselves, without social pressures or forming a self image, as simple as life itself".

Studies:

Art Studio of Zenaida Díaz, Habana, Cuba
Escuela de Artes Plásticas, Habana, Cuba
Academia de Artes San Alejandro, Habana, Cuba
Master’s in Humanities, Major in Art History, Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile
(Currently professor of Drawing, Design school, Universidad del Desarrollo / Art Professor, “talents” project at the Universidad de Concepción, Chile.)