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The artist talks about his new series of large-scale paintings, Requiem, and how his work is influenced by timeless themes such as migration.
Yoan Capote's practice is the result of a constant attempt to translate internal psychological conflicts into physical experiences.!
Yoan Capote
Cuban sculptor
Yoan Capote is a Cuban sculptor who was born in 1977 in Pinar del Río.
He received the UNESCO prize during the 7th Havana Biennial with the artists' collective DUPP (Desde Una Pragmática Pedagógica).
Biography
Yoan Capote lives and works in Havana where he studied arts at the Superior Institute of Art from 1991 to 1995.
Even if he first specialized in painting, he finally decided to improve his sculpture skills, considering the latter as a way of developing three-dimensional and multi-sensory possibilities.
Yoan Capote @yoancapote, a #Cuban performance sculpture and installation artist, painter, photographer, comes with a message.He is already recognized in the Cuban art circles - as a promising artist. His work, known to be “solid”, “irreverent”, “provocative”, and “non-conformist” – according to some art critics – deals principally with interactions between individuals and his psychological experiences.
Several of his pieces often merges human organs with inanimate objects, rearranges the human body and reinvents the purpose of everyday life objects: the sculpture N