Douglas Perez Castro "Sano Entretenimiento II" Contemporary Surrealist Social Commentary Painting, 2015

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Figurative oil painting by Cuban artist Douglas Perez Castro. This painting depicts "sano entretenimiento," translating to "healthy entertainment." Figures of … Read more Figurative oil painting by Cuban artist Douglas Perez Castro. This painting depicts "sano entretenimiento," translating to "healthy entertainment." Figures of children wearing soccer jerseys are featured at the bottom watching Jesus being roasted over a fire above. Signed, titled, and dated on reverse. Currently framed in a simple, black frame.

Dimensions Without Frame: H: 27.5 x W: 43.13

Artist Biography:
Douglas Perez Castro is a Cuban contemporary artist born in 1972, whose paintings tackle complex matters in local history, society and culture. Castro adapts real-life picture of economic, social and cultural life on the island of his birth with care, irony, and humor. "In doing so, he appropriates the iconography and techniques of the Cuban avant-garde of the mid-19th century but also of the 17th-century Dutch masters. As he himself as expressed it, this means that he transports and establishes himself between his own Cuban history and the history of art."

Works such as Troyano, Picazzo, La República Habanera and La Ciudad de las Oportunidades have a powerful visual load due to their content and their relationship with fiction, just as well as his older and more recent pieces. Castro's work is not only limited to the historical but gives way to the society today with an alienated reality. See less