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Roger toledo: unpainting
Solo Show IN COLLABORATION WITH THOMAS NICKLE PROJECTS
Design District
21 NE 39th Street, Miami, FL 33137
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Roger Toledo conceptually approaches painting in an attempt to deconstruct the nature of the paintings he examines, all validated by their presence in museums: in an attempt to extract and separate the pigments from the forms that contain them. His pieces reflect and conceptually approach formalist criticism and the valorization of painting as an art object.
For this series, paintings from the Cuban art collection of the National Museum of Fine Arts were chosen to create a history of color in Cuban painting. Toledo says: “I chose to work on Days at the Museum with pieces that perhaps are not the most recognized within the historiography of Cuban art. My criteria were more practical and personal: they are all works of a wide chromatic value, that regardless of whether they are the most representative of their time or not, reflect their authors' spirit.” With the goal of summarizing each of these masterpieces, the artist picks twenty-five colors and reproduces them in hue and technique in an abstract -geometric- composition. Toledo's renditions carry the color ambiance of the originals, in proportion to their presence within the original forms; he explores the narrative capacity of color, and a work's spatial structure.
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Roger Toledo
Tuberculosis, 2023Oil on canvas
47.2 x 47.2 in
120 x 120 cm -
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About the Artist
Roger ToledoRoger Toledo (1986) was born in Camagüey, Cuba. After he graduated from Vicentina de la Torre Art Academy in 2015, he majored in painting at the University for the Arts (ISA) in Havana. From 2011 until 2017, he served as a professor of Painting and Criticism at the Visual Art School of the University for the Arts. He currently lives and works between Havana and Mérida, México.
Despite its versatility, his work retains a strong coherence due to two elements that remain constant in his creations: the use of a Pattern (simple geometrical elements used to segment space) and Color.Toledo’s paintings explore the image and its structure, with recurrent references to the universal and Cuban pictorial tradition.
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Roger ToledoELLIPSE from the Parergon series, 2011-2022Reclaimed Cedar wood, oil and wax finish
21 1/4 x 28 3/8 x 4 in
54 x 72 x 10 cm -
Roger ToledoELLIPSE from the Parergon series, 2011-2022Reclaimed Cedar wood, oil and wax finish
21 1/4 x 28 3/8 x 4 in
54 x 72 x 10 cm -
Roger ToledoELLIPSE from the Parergon series, 2011-2022Reclaimed Cedar wood, oil and wax finish
21 1/4 x 28 3/8 x 4 in
54 x 72 x 10 cm
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Roger Toledo
Retrato de Juan Marinello, 2023Oil on canvas
47.2 x 47.2 in
120 x 120 cm