From the very beginning, the Cuban artist Tony Rodríguez understood that pictorial imagination can create forms—bearers, revitalizers, and generators of space—and images that, although mysterious and unprecedented, are no less real or concrete. Thus, the material of his painting determines the effect it produces on the surface, becoming the source of those defined forms and…
Harmony and Integration of a Dreamed World
By Ángel Alonso, Art Critic and Artist The work of Juan Antonio (Tony) Rodríguez Olivares is sustained by an inclusive, open, and non-sectarian artistic attitude. From his own statement, the artist reveals this integrative vision: “My paintings are inspired by the ancient philosophies of the world, poems, nature, and modern society. By combining ancient motifs…
Critique of the Cuban artist Tony Rodríguez
By: José Veigas Zamora I believe it is essential to begin with the work of Antonio Rodríguez Olivares (Santiago de Cuba, 1980), an artist with whom I have been in contact for more than a decade, and whose paintings I came to know almost at the youthful dawn of his artistic production. This restless painter…
The pictorial nodules
By Pablo de Cuba Soria Tony Rodriguez (Juan Antonio Rodríguez Olivares) paints from a recurring compositional paradox: the proliferation of oases inhabited by perishable matter (a pair of shoes, a dilapidated car, an umbrella, a coffeepot, a train…) that rest in/float over spaces tending toward infinitude, toward a desolate vastness. The transitory and the persistent…
The Skin of the Objects…
By Toni Piñera Inspiration is the vital weapon of the creator, and when it is intermingled with an unlimited imagination that crosses borders of reality/unreality, everything multiplies. The result is an integral, comprehensive, subjugating work… that catches all eyes and, above all, the souls. Because there are ingredients of the internal side that come to…
Dream World…
By Babacar Mbow Congratulations Tony Rodríguez, excelent work. The thematic of the artist Tony Rodríguez finds pan-Caribbean linkages as in the work of Antonio Eligio Fernández (Tonel), Mundo Soñado at the Museo de Bellas Artes of Havana. In it, we see a world map composed as a puzzle of pieces of wood that have the shape of Cuba….
Somber Painting
By Antonio Correa Iglesias “… the things that die should not be touched” Jardín, Dulce María Loynaz “…I suffered very much during my life watching the pitiful state of decay of our house in its last years, but I could do nothing to save it, and therefore I only hope and wish that it finally…
The Voices of Water
By Andrés Isaac Santana When the full moon arrives I will go to Santiago de Cuba. I will go to Santiago in a coach of black water. I will go to Santiago. Palm-thatched roofs will sing. I will go to Santiago. When the palm wants to become a stork. I will go to Santiago. And…
The truth is on your canvases…
By Píter Ortega Núñez PORTICO The pictorial production of the young Cuban artist Tony Rodríguez (Juan Antonio Rodríguez Olivares, Santiago de Cuba, 1980) rises around a fundamental thematic nucleus: the universe of the journey. The characters in the artist’s work are eternal passersby, tireless travelers. They experience perpetual nomadism, a constant displacement (both physical and…