Yoan Linares

Yoan Linares is a contemporary and conceptual artist with a solid background in art history. His work includes painting, photography, video, and art installations. Several of the recurring themes in his artwork are substantially philosophical.

His creations flirt with the strangeness between the mystery of the art piece and the observer. By cutting fragments of ephemeral pieces of reality, the intimate poetry, sketches in solitude or even that drawing in the imagination, the artist approaches to what he names the rare instant: a fleeting moment that allows to emancipate the artist to capture a direct dialogue between the mystery of the work and the viewer.

Linares was born in 1976 in Villa Clara, Cuba. He attended the University of Arts of Cuba (ISA) faculty of plastics arts / painting profile, right after graduating from Plastic Arts at Academy "Leopoldo Romañach" in his homecity. During his forming years in his home country he actively participated of various art worshop with relevant cuban and international artists