yampier baez, painter
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Catalogue of paintings by Cuban artist Yampier BaezTRANSCRIPT
Yampier Baez
Painter
If they are not yours as much as mine they are nothing, or next to nothing, If they are not the riddle and the untying of the riddle they are nothing,
If they are not just as close as they are distant they are nothing.
Whitman
Zunzun Oil on canvas
2009
Front Susundamba Mixed on canvas
51,2 x 66,1 in 2010
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Mixed on canvas 1997
As if death
had been a dream
The Executioner
Mixed on canvas 1997
Narciso death by my hands
Mixed on canvas 1997
Transgenics
Transgenics X
Graphite on canvas 2000
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Transgenics V
Graphite on canvas 2000
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Transgenics IV
Graphite on canvas 2000
Transgenics I
Graphite on canvas 2000 Next page
Transgenics XII
Graphite on canvas 2000
Buterfly
Oil on canvas 2009 Next page
Shadow
Oil on canvas 2009
Liquid
dreams
Tiger Oil on canvas 2009
Robin and I Oil on canvas 2009
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Caterpillar Oil on canvas 2009
Trilogy
Oil on canvas 2009
Within
the limits
The Last Day of the Creation Mixed on canvas
2002
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Nigth with Day Including Mixed on canvas
2002
Restricted Zone # 1 Mixed on canvas
2002
At center
Blue Sky Mixed on canvas
2002
Of the Floating Islands series Mixed on canvas 2002
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Opposites Realities Mixed on canvas 2002
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Latest News II Mixed on canvas 2002
Of the Floating Islands series Mixed on canvas,/ 41 x 56 in
2002
Infinite Island Mixed on canvas,/ 41 x 56 in 2002
Palo
monte
Endumba Mixed on canvas
51,2 x 67,7 in 2010
Vititi Mixed on canvas
27,5 x 43,3 in 2010
Engo Mixed on canvas 27,5 x 43,3 in/ 2010
About the Palo Monte
The Palo Monte or Palo Mayombe is a religious cult of Bantu origin introduced in Cuba by African slaves brought by the Spanish to work in sugar plantations and other crops. Padre Nganga means man and Madre Nganga or Yaya means woman who know the rules and oral traditions and officiate as priests in charge of a house also known as Munanso.
From the sixteenth to the seventeenth century thousands of slaves worked and settled in the central region of the island, mostly in the area of Matanzas. There in 1765 the town of Cimarrones was founded, and became famous for its population of black slaves who practiced miracle cures and all sorts of witch craft. Ña Filomena and Ña Secundina were brought from their native Congo to work as slaves at the Santa Amalia Mill, of Cimarrones, in 1853. They were two most famous Madres Ngangas.
Munanso Mixed on canvas 27,5 x 43,3 in 2010
But Nganga or Prenda is also the consecrated recipient or iron pot containing bones, grass and soil.
Vititi and his partner Luasambu were huntsmen of slave origin. After Luasambo death, Vititi took the head and placed it in the pot naming it Vititi Congo. Thus was born one of the most famous of all time Ngangas. The oracle or divinations through bones is known as Vititi Kanguame.
Ndumba (Endumba) means all or a multitude in kimbundo, language of the kingdom of Benguela and Angola as spoken by the slaves of those places. It also means women in Cuban Santeria. It is estimated that there still exist in the region many followers and practitioners of Palo Monte.
The artist's paintings relates these roots and Afro-Cuban traditions to the landscape and nature of the island through the primary colors that express the strength and power of magic, bringing to canvas ceremonial objects and fragmented views through windows leading us to a world of cosmology and symbols.
R.T.L.
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Entoto Mixed on canvas 27,5 x 43,3 in 2010
Mama Nganga Mixed on canvas
51,2 x 66,1 in / 2010
Omalembe Mixed on canvas 27,5 x 43,3 in 2010
Yampier Baez Matos Matanzas, Cuba, 1974
He graduated from the Vocational School of Arts of Matanzas and member of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC). Currently he teaches at the School of Arts Matanzas. He has illustrated
books for several Cuban publishers.
Some personal exhibitions:
1997: As the leaves, Art Gallery, Cardenas, Cuba 1998: As if death had been a dream, Castillo de los Tres Reyes del Morro, Havana
1999: The last day of last year, Museum of the Revolution, Havana 1999: Breaking the Silence, Hotel Melia Varadero and Havana Biennial VII
2000: You, the other people, Casa Simon Bolivar, La Habana 2001: Floating Islands, Headquarters of the UNEAC, Matanzas
2002: Within Limits, Center for Visual Arts, Matanzas 2003: Where the streets have no name, Technical Gallery, Asuncion, Paraguay
2004: Danger Zone, headquarters of the UNEAC, Matanzas 2005: Transgenics, Museo Palacio de Junco, Matanzas
2006: Transgenics II, Habana Art Gallery, London, England 2007: Liquid Dreams, Diario La Nacion, Santiago de Chile
He has won several awards, among them: Hall of the Arts Academy in 1986 and 1987, First Prize in the XI Hall of Landscape (2006) and Landscape Room XII (2007), in Havana. His works have been acquired
by private collectors in Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, England, Belgium, Germany, Italy, France, Holland, Spain and other countries.
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