Lilies on Aubergene Print

Born into a princely family, that fled from revoltion, Agustus was separated at a young age from them, and found himself growing up in an orpahaage outside of Baton Rouge, Louisana. As a small child, inspired by a Cuban legend about a small man who lived in the dark waters of the village of Batey on the rivers, in reality what could bring that story to the popular imagination is that the marginalized people were not extinct in its entirety the knowledge they had of how to fish and marry. Years later, skeletons of very short people were found. They were not registered as normal inhabitants, but as an indigenous settlement in the Batey area. I remember that as a child, playing in the streams near the orphanage, when the rising of the estuary that fed, what we called, the hope river in touched the highest parts of the banks, we discovered a clay pot that we played with until they broke, they also told us about the owner of the water who lived in a deep and dark pool as soon as the sun shone the jucaro trees’ leaves did not let the light penetrate through to the waters. Our elders told us when we were back at the orphanage not to go fishing or hunting near the streams. They said they shouldn't let us fish there or the pool owner of the water will come out and catch them, one day we forgot what they always repeated to us. Imagine what we were given was such a scare that we lost everything we had in our hands. As time passed we were given a house in the countryside. My cousins ​​told me that the owner of the water was two Amazon pink dolphins, and we later see how it changes all the perspectives of something that does not clearly bring fear into your life. I construct lines and color combinations on a flat surface, in order to express general beauty of inner pain and suffering, juxtaposed with hope, with the utmost awareness. Nature, figurative forms (or, that which I see) inspire me, puts me, as with any painter, in an emotional state so that an urge comes about to make something. But, I start with the truth, or as close as possible to the truth and abstract everything from that, until I reach the foundation. Then through form and color, constructed with awareness, but not with calculation, led by high intuition, and brought to harmony and rhythm, these basic forms of beauty, by lines and curves, can become a work of art, as strong as it is true. Education * Anciennes études en dessin figuratif, Universite Paris * Artist Residency, Jamaica, NY * Estudies tècnics anteriors Ecole Muset, Catalan “This references the work of so many artists yet it still seems original. Let's see more work from this talented artist.”Sinclair Webster, UK Artist.