Mural

Mural, Bambu, Mixed Media, 600 cm x 300 cm x 25 cm.

Paintings on paper and canvas

Homenaje a Maestros de la Historia del Arte

Homenaje a Pablo Picasso, Mixed media.

Homenaje a Paul Cezanne, Mixed media.

Pintura Rupestre, Detail, Mixed media on canvas.

International Symposium of Sculpture, Montenegro, 1989

For Tanya, the sweetest and beautiful Montenegrina.

"On our earth, before writing was invented, before the printing press was invented, poetry flourished. That is why we know that poetry is like bread; it should be shared by all, by scholars and by peasants, by all our vast, incredible, extraordinary family of humanity."
Pablo Neruda.

The Art Colony of Danilovgrad, Montenegro

The Art Colony of Danilovgrad is an initiator for cherishing, modelling and exhibiting of sculptures in the open. This fact makes it a unique place and very important landmark for further cultural development in this region. It has more than 100 pieces of sculptures of both gallery size and open-air size. Every year the art colony organises a symposium of sculptors where many international artists work on sculptures in the famous white stone from Danilovgrad, Montenegro.


"Indoamérica," Sculpture in Marble, Art Colony of Danilovgrad, 1989.

Article by Tony Piñera, Periódico Granma, Havana, 1989.

Interview with C. P. Vidal by Carlos Tellez Espino, Revista Cultural " El Quehacer", Las Tunas, 1989.

La Danza de los Garabatos

"En el signo queda siempre el conjuro del gesto"

José Lezama Lima.

Felix’s Place: la alquimia de un hechicero

Pocos lugares exhalan su magia y comprometen a un presuroso regreso. Cada retorno deviene experiencia única, alimento al cuerpo y al espíritu. Felix’s Place no es solo el recinto íntimo donde encontramos sabores perdidos, degustamos exquisitos platos, o descubrimos una gran familia, es también sitio del arte.

“La danza de los garabatos”, un performance realizado por el artista Carlos Pérez Vidal y Silvia Medina el pasado 13 de febrero, 2010, nos condujo a minutos de intensa conmoción espiritual. Desde los rítmicos movimientos afrocubanos hasta los peculiares signos cifrados en la piel, pudimos develar fragmentos del acervo ñáñigo que enriquece la identidad latinoamericana y caribeña, ese mestizaje insolente que mucho nos ayuda a comprender el mundo en que vivimos.

Pero este es solo el preámbulo. Felix’s Place seguirá marcando la diferencia. ¿Su alquimia? Arte de crear un espacio “feliz”, memorables encuentros, insospechados antojos… es su elocuente apetencia de creer en el arte.

Chaliang Merino

Chaliang Merino: Critico de Arte. BA en Historia del Arte (Universidad de La Habana); MA in Art Management (St. Thomas University, Miami)

La Campana: hecho antes que dicho

Carlos, Eduardo, Manuel, Marlon y Oscar.

http://www.lazaroet.blogspot.com/

Article by Lázaro Estrada Tamayo, February 1, 2010.

Time as Metaphor at Eight Modern

Margo Thoma, Eight Modern Co-Director and Carlos Pérez Vidal at the Opening Reception of Time as Metaphor.

Carlos Pérez Vidal, current artwork addressing the issues of personal identity, cultural memory, and art-historical stereotyping, communicates his sociopolitical observations in a visual language that surreally compounds parody, visual poetry, and uncanny elements. The artist is known for creating confrontational dialogues between diverse iconographies and the specific framework of the Spanish Colonial altar. Drawing upon the cultural diversity of the Americas, Time as Metaphor reveals unexpected connections between seemingly disparate religious, political, and art-historical icons.

New Mexico Artist, Carlos and New Mexico Friend.

Carlos Pérez Vidal, during the Live Video Performance and Installation.

Time is Over, Video Performance and Installation.

Pérez Vidal has been a central figure in the recent Cuban art movement that is known as the Cuban Renaissance. In the mid-1980s, he was founder member of the art group La Campana, which was committed to the creation of art that reflected the sensibilities of his generation – voicing its artistic and ethical challenges to Cuba’s socio-cultural landscape. The art group met with the Island censorship. Currently living and working in Florida, the artist has participated in more than ninety exhibitions internationally.

Twenty-seven Chosen and One Errant, Mixed Media, Installation.

Dialéctica de la Fidelidad, Mixed Media, Installation.







Carl Thoma, Eight Modern Insvestor, and Art Collector.

Live Video Performance and Installation, Eight Modern, Santa Fe, N.M.

Carlos during the "Smoking the History" (To the outstanding Generation of 1980), Live Video Performance at Eight Modern.

Time as Metaphor signifies Eight Modern’s continued commitment to premiering works by internationally acclaimed artists who have never before been represented in Santa Fe.

Carlos Pérez Vidal: Time as Metaphor.

July 20 - August 26, 2007.

Eight Modern

231 Delgado Street,

Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501.

eightmodern.net

Arte Cubano

“No conozco mejor definición de la palabra arte que esta: El arte es el hombre agregado a la naturaleza, la realidad, la verdad, pero con un significado, con una concepción, con un carácter, que el artista hace resaltar, y a los cuales da expresión, que redime, que desenreda, libera, ilumina”.

Vincent Van Gogh.


Un aspecto importante es la presencia de lo religioso. Tiene que ver con las fuentes, pero también con esa mística bastante común en el nuevo arte cubano. Más allá de los temas religiosos, en esta plástica encontramos una acción de la religiosidad – categoría que Mircea Eliade consideraba inherente a la conciencia – a nivel de poética. Su inspiración sobre el movimiento ha sido sobre todo precolombina o afroamericana, como en Elso, Bedia, Luis Gómez, Ana Mendieta, Ricardo Rodríguez Brey y Santiago Rodríguez Olazabal, pero entre los jóvenes que despuntan en la palestra internacional, son frecuentes los temas místicos y cristianos ( Oscar Aguirre Comendador, Esterio Segura y Carlos Pérez Vidal ), sus propuestas interactúan y reflexionan sobre aspectos cruciales de la sociedad contemporánea.

Gerardo Mosquera.

Oscar Aguirre Comendador, Escudo Evangelizado, Madera, Metal y Ceramica, 65 x 50 cm.

Esterio Segura, Santo de Paseo por el Trópico, Vaciado en Yeso, Policromado y Metal, Tamaño Natural.


Carlos Pérez Vidal, El Milagro del San Jorge Apache, Acrilico, Madera y Metal, 130 x 100 x 50 cm.





Arte Cubano Actual, Text in the Catalogue by Gerardo Mosquera, Centro Cultural de Arte Contemporáneo, A. C., México, D.F., Fundación Cultural Televisa, A.C., Campos Eliseos y Jorge Eliot, Polanco, México D.F.

Gerardo Mosquera is an Art Historian, Curator and Art Critic, Founder member of La Bienal de La Habana and Centro Wifredo Lam.

Currently he is a Curator at The New Museum of Comtemporary Art, in New York, NY.