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Enrique Gay García (1928)Born in Santiago de Cuba, 15 Jan 1928. Cuban sculptor, painter, printmaker and tapestry maker. He graduated from the Academia de S Alejandro in Havana in 1955 and went to Mexico, where he studied with David Alfaro Siqueiros in Mexico City. In 1962 he traveled to Italy on a Unesco scholarship. As a political exile from Cuba he lived for several years in Europe, the USA and Puerto Rico before settling in Miami in 1978. He worked in bronze and steel, realized murals, drawings, lithographs and tapestries. His tapestries echo the concern with free brushwork and grainy texture evident in his drawings and lithographs. His painting and sculpture were initially influenced by Abstract Expressionism, but as a sculptor working in bronze and steel, his affinities were with Arnaldo Pomodoro. García’s originality lay in the tensions he created between
smooth and coarse textures, and between geometric and asymmetrical forms
as a means of suggesting metaphors within an essentially abstract formal
language. For example, in Icarus he transposed the frailty attributed
to Icarus’s wings on to the torso and his strength on to the wings.
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