José Bedia. Status Quo

Born in Cuba in the 1959 José Bedia is recognized as one of the most important Latin American artists. The issues brought forward in his artistic career are firmly anchored to the culture from which it comes and investigate, with anthropological attention, the possibility of recovery of existential values ​​found in tribal societies of South America. Reread and rewrite this legacy, by means of drawing and painting, means questioning the status quo, reconstitute a state of balance and harmony, in a present need of care, sick of war and loneliness.

Volume published on the occasion of the exhibition "Status Quo" by José Bedia, at Il Torchio Art Gallery – Costantini Arte Contemporanea, Milan (10 April – 10 May 2008).