Curriculum - 08 - Ulises Bretaņa

 

 

 

Carlos Ulises Bretaña Hevia, born in 1957, in Pinar del Río, is a self tought painter. He had his first exposition in 1985, and his works got meanwhile 15 times awarded and do enjoy a growing popularity amongst art collectors from all over the world.

"Ulises doubts the sub aeternitas species and perceives how environmental depauperation leads irreversible to degeneration. He illuminates decadent societies with such a precision and from a close, domestic and lovable perspective that overcomes the triviality of ironic parody. His work is also a concretion of an art of resistance. An aesthetic proposition introduced as "an alternative to the fashioned, arbitrary, onanistic or destuctive behaviours". In order to articulate his message he has constructed a poetics armed with surrealistic and futuristic motives that endow his work with a favoured kinetics; environments where the protagonists are expressive, subtly possessed beings of counterfeited phisiomorphology, a bestiary of fiends, little men that constitute a wide neofigurative repertoire".

Joaquín Badajoz