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  • Wells Fargo and Co. - "Club Tropicana Roulette", 21x23", 2015

    Mixed media on porcelain-lacquered metal, from the series “Signs".  - Wells Fargo and Company Express operated in pre-revolutionary Cuba from 1900-1956. The artist alludes to the old banking system as gambling with the country's riches.

    938,960
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  • "Club Tropicana Roulette", verso
    949,960
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  • Wells Fargo and Co. - "Hotel Riviera Gambling", 21x23", 2015

    Mixed media on porcelain-lacquered metal on a vintage shop sign, from the series “Signs". - Wells Fargo and Company Express operated in pre-revolutionary Cuba from 1900-1956. The artist alludes to the old banking system as a way of gambling with the country's riches.

    1065,960
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  • "Hotel Riviera Gambling", verso
    1043,960
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  • Hidden images:Untitled (Palimpsesto),photo transfer on aluminum, 2014

    In his “palimpsesto” series the artist presents hidden images revealing landmarks of Cuban history. This piece makes reference to the 1934 Cuban-U.S. treaty ending the Platt Amendment which had dictated extensive U.S. involvement in Cuban international and domestic affairs after the Spanish American War. Archival news clippings and publication references, along with a black smudge indicating a censored paragraph, are photo-transferred onto aluminum.

    1411,960
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  • Hidden images: Untitled ("Palimpsesto"), mixed media on aluminum, 2011

    The subject of this "hidden image" is Cuba's most revered writer and cultural icon, Alejo Carpentier. Lopez photo-transferred the back of the archival photograph depicting Carpentier onto an aluminum panel and added a hand-drawn portrait of the writer on top. The original image was published by Cuba's Bohemia magazine several times over a period of years.

    754,960
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  • ”El Iris" series (Ida Lupino), mixed media on metal, 8x10.5", 2016

    Before the Cuban revolution, “El Iris”, founded in Havana in 1855 and operating until the mid-1950’s, was Cuba’s largest fire insurance company. Its oval porcelain fire marks became ubiquitous in Havana and other Cuban cities starting in the 19th century. Kadir Lopez frequently incorporates salvaged vintage advertising signs like this one into his work, superimposing nostalgic pre-revolutionary images (in this case glamorous Hollywood stars) onto them with a sense of irony as decades after the revolution both Cubans and foreign visitors are mining the by now romanticized past of the island. 

    1230,960
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  • ”El Iris" series (Jane Russell), mixed media on metal, 8x10.5"
    1315,960
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  • “Y Tome...Materva”, mixed media on metal, 12x15.7", 2016

    “Y Tome...Materva” (Drink Materva!), a popular shop sign in pre-revolutionary Cuba

    During the Cuban Revolution, the Materva bottling plant producing the island’s most popular soft drink was targeted for strikes by revolutionaries, along with Coca Cola and Pepsi bottling plants in the country. Materva was made and sold in Cuba until 1960 when it was nationalized, along with other private industry. It is no longer produced in Cuba. (Wikipedia)

    1428,960
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  • “Y Tome...Materva”, verso
    1430,960
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  • "Teatro Rodi", mixed media (acrylic on canvas with real neon sign)

    Today called Teatro Mella, Cine Teatro Rodi was a legendary movie palace in pre-revolutionary Havana's elegant El Vedado district where U.S. American movies with glamorous film stars were shown. To see the historical photo on which this work is based, click here 

    746,960
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  • "Teatro Rodi", mixed media (acrylic on canvas with real neon sign)
    756,960
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  • ”El Iris" series (Ann Blyth), mixed media on metal, 8x10.5", 2016
    1182,960
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  • ”El Iris" series, (Paulette Goddard), mixed media on metal, 8x10.5"
    1207,960
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Cuba: Kadir Lopez

Kadir Lopez Nieves is an internationally known, Havana based, contemporary artist whose works include paintings, sculpture, prints, light installations and mixed media. Born in 1972 in Las Tunas, Cuba, he graduated from Havana’s prestigious art academy Instituto Superior de Arte in 1995. He has exhibited his work consistently since 1990 in solo and group shows in North and South America, Europe, China, and the Caribbean, and participated international art fairs and exhibitions.

 

In much of Lopez’ work, photos, other images and symbols belonging to his native island are “recovered” and transformed through techniques including collage and photo transfers, thus stripping nostalgic content from historic images and leaving them open to new interpretations. In his series “Signs” he repurposes porcelain-lacquered metal advertising signs from pre-revolutionary Cuba by transferring black-and-white photographs onto them, again providing a more complicated and at times ironic reading of the island's history. His “Palimpsestos” contain hidden images that reference special moments in Cuban history and their underlying significance. 

 

He is the recipient of numerous art prizes. Lopez’ work can be found in major public and numerous private collections worldwide.

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