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Michel Pérez Pollo

Michel Pérez Pollo’s abstract-figurative works give him a unique position in his generation, and among artists in Cuba as a whole. The paintings may seem childlike and naive, but his concern is to avoid faithful accuracy in favor of a universal expression. His models are figures and shapes made of modelling clay, which he greatly enlarges and exaggerates when painting them.

His particular style of painting is bold, often lavish in his application of the fluid paint, and therefore reminiscent of revolutionary murals, depictions imbued with messages. He focuses on the superordinate, the human-personal, so that his paintings seem like expressions of a new humanism, especially wherever there is talk of a “tropical depression” – an actual meteorological term for a weather situation in the Caribbean that is dismal, grave, densely cloudy and dark. Pérez Pollo reinterprets it expressionistically, in strong paintings. Where once debilitating melancholia loomed, he reports with a positive attitude, with personal gravity and self-assertion.

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  • Michel Pérez Pollo, Un Otoño, XXIX, 2024

    oil on linen
    39.37 x 39.37 in (100 x 100 cm)

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  • Michel Pérez Pollo, Un Otoño V, 2023

    oil on linen
    31.5 x 31.5 in (80 x 80 cm)

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  • Michel Pérez Pollo, Un Otoño XI, 2023

    oil on canvas
    78.74 x 157.48 in (200 x 400 cm)

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  • Michel Pérez Pollo, Un Otoño XIII, 2023

    oil on canvas
    78.74 x 157.48 in (200 x 400 cm)

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  • Michel Pérez Pollo, Un Otoño XXII, 2023

    Oil on linen
    27.56 x 27.56 in (70 x 70 cm)

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  • Michel Pérez Pollo, Perspectiva Roja, 2022

    oil on linen
    31.5 x 31.5 in (80 x 80 cm)

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  • Michel Pérez Pollo, Perspectiva Verde, 2022

    oil on linen
    27.56 x 27.56 in (70 x 70 cm)

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  • Michel Pérez Pollo, Perspectiva Amarilla, 2022

    oil on linen
    76.77 x 76.77 in (195 x 195 cm)

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  • Michel Pérez Pollo, Maguella, 2021

    oil on canvas
    78.74 x 78.74 in (200 x 200 cm)

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  • Michel Pérez Pollo, Prangana, 2021

    oil on canvas
    78.74 x 78.74 in (200 x 200 cm)

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  • Michel Pérez Pollo, Untitled, 2021

    oil on canvas
    11.81 x 11.81 in (30 x 30 cm)

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  • Michel Pérez Pollo, Piña, 2020

    oil on canvas
    74.8 x 74.8 in (190 x 190 cm)

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