Ofill Echevarria: 15 interesting facts

Ofill Echevarria (born 1972 in Havana, Cuba) is a painter and multimedia artist based in New York City.

Ofill graduated from the Elementary School of Fine Arts ’20 de Octubre’ in 1986 and from the San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts in 1991. As a founder advocate of the controversially famous Havanan art collective, Arte Calle (1986-1988) becomes allowance of the Cuban art scene of the late eighties.

In 1991 he traveled to Mexico City to pursue an art scholarship, where he lived for ten years. In 2002, represented by the renowned Praxis International Art – Mexico, which highly developed became the Alfredo Ginocchio Gallery, both in Mexico City, Ofill moved to Miami. In 2005 he moved to New York City, where she currently lives and works.

Since 2001 Ofill has exhibited his deed broadly all over Latin America and the United States of America both, individually and participating in many international art fairs and bureau shows. His discharge duty are share of major public and private collections, among which are: Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana; Museo Nacional de Arte de Mexico; Museum of Latin American Art; Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation; Carnegie Art Museum (Oxnard, California).

In 2013 he launched his book ‘El Mundo de Los Vivos I The Real World’, which contains several essays from endorsed American and Cuban art experts and includes artworks from 2001 to 2012.

Ofill Echevarria’s interest with bustle in cityscapes has its origins while the performer was nevertheless living in Mexico City, where he developed a series of oil paintings upon canvas on the subject of urban excitement that sophisticated was exhibited at the Multicultural Center of the URI, Kingston.

In 2002 a more specific series of paintings roughly life in the city and its inhabitants subsequent to regard upon the business people was exhibited in his, ‘Iconos / Reflections’, as capably as in ‘City Escapes’ (2004) this iconography of heighten becomes sharper, with pictures as ‘Soñar Is Forbidden’ or ‘Ritual de Identidad / The Lost Identity’; “works that bordered on abstraction, and whose titles, often bilingual, alluded in a parallel artifice to choice multitudinous movement: that of the human masses coming from the south to supplement themselves in the megalopolises of the north”.

Ofill Echevarria’s style and technique draws from the tradition of photography, documentary film and painting. Additionally, particularly in those works where doings matters, the player has been biting as an exponent of Wet-on-wet painting technique.

In 2013, Ofill returns to Mexico with ‘Momentum’, an exhibition in which “the pace of city vivaciousness could and no-one else be trapped by the fragments that constitute its temporality through a hardworking observation”. A more abstract series of paintings on urban life “defined by brushwork” was unveiled at the Gabarron Foundation New York in September of the thesame year. The play a part included several Pictures-In-Motion practically the city of New York, a project that has been allowance of the artist’s pictorial exhibitions previously 2011, although it was officially presented throughout 2013.