Manuel Mendive in Mexico
Manuel Mendive opened his first exhibition for 2014 last January 17th. The show comes in an important year in the artist's life: Mendive will turn 70 in 2014 and will also celebrate the 50th anniversary of his first solo exhibition, held at Centro de Arte in Havana.
The show, titled El sonido del agua me recuerda… is at the Museo de Arte Moderno (MACAY) in Mérida, Yucatán, and can be visited through March 29th.
"I am searching beyond the meaning of water for a specific culture, such as the Yoruba culture; I want to go to the universal and search there for humankind and its personal stories," Mendive explains.
The show features some 30 works in painting, sculpture, and installation, all created between 2009 and 2013.
"His work is a celebration of Cuban life and culture. Mendive is a masterful draftsman, not only a painter or sculpture; he was a forward-looking figure in Cuban art in the early 1980s with his incursion in performance. He enchants the most diverse audiences, seducing the experts and the common observers and making them participants in his creation. This is one of his greatest rewards, to perceive the emotion that his work arouses in those who encounter it," notes Isabel Hernández Martínez.
El sonido del agua me recuerda... comes on the heels of Cosas que no pueden ser vistas de otra manera: el arte de Manuel Mendive, which opened last November at the Frost Art Museum.
