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YOVANI BAUTA
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YOVANI BAUTA
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Yovani Bauta graduated from the National School of Arts in Havana, Cuba, as Professor of Painting and Drawing. He also has a Law Degree from the University of Matanzas, Cuba. His artwork has been exhibited in many countries such as Germany, France, Mexico, Spain, Switzerland and the United States, as well as in Cuba. His work has been reviewed and published in different art magazines and books in Mexico, France, and the United States. Mr. Bauta has lectured at the New School of Social Research, in New York; at Florida International University; and at the University of Michigan, among other academic institutions.
A recent resume of his exhibitions includes: Museum of Art, Geneva, Switzerland; Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA), Long Beach, California; Museo de las Americas, Madrid, Spain; Museo Maria Zambrano, Velez-Malaga, Spain; LOWE Art Museum, U. M., Coral Gables, Florida; Arizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona; University of Colorado Springs, Colorado and Miami Dade College, Miami, Florida.
He founded and performed for 10 years in “Seña del Humor”, a comedy ensemble that allowed him to collaborate as an actor in Liborio Wants To Escape a performance by Leandro Soto in United States and Mexico respectively. His last performance Your Country Needs You was made in Dominican Republic in March; 2006. Another media used by Bauta is installations, such as Male I.D. Artemis PS747, 2000 and University of Miami, 2001.
His essay “Los cuerpos de la nación” was published by Baquiana Editorial in May 2003 and launched at the University of Cadiz, Spain where he participated as a panelist in the conference “Intelectuales Cubanos de la Diaspora. “
In the last few years his work has been shown in more than twenty solo exhibition and many group shows in Europe and America.
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B.F.A from School of Visual Arts May 2006
Honors Graduate
Born 1983 in Leon, Nicaragua, raised in Miami, FL then moved to NYC.
My work concentrates on the examination of cultures through the process of language. The work develops a thin line of ambiguity through abstraction that has allowed me to study in detail, the various complex forms, colors and verbs that can belong to a specific culture. The paintings, drawings, and installations therefore are documentations or notation of this research. The approach can alter from one study to another in order to give each form or verb a particular identity. This is intentional so the viewer can acknowledge the picture as individual studies of iconography within a culture, attaching anthropomorphism to each particular form. Therefore, it is very important to see the work as a classification of individuals that justifies the structure of that study. Giving each form, mark, color, line, dimension of surface, and plastic surface (medium) an identity allows me to dictate a personality to these “character forms” that are created by means of hybrids of cultures. My interest lies in proposing a “language” but not explaining one. This process shaped a narrative quality to the work, almost the feeling of a stage, where I am the puppeteer. My professional goals are aimed at being able to show my “notations” to as many people as possible in an attempt to learn more about myself and society.
Education
B.F.A 2006 Studio Art School of Visual Arts
B.A 2002 Photography Miami Dade College
Grants/ Awards
2002-2006 Silas H Rhodes Merit Based Scholarship
2002-2001 Visual Arts Honors Conservatory Grant
Exhibitions
2008
"Off the Wall" LAX Gallery, Los Angeles, California
"Scene" ArtParty, Miami, Florida
2007
"EnvironMental "ArtFutures Gallery, Miami, Florida
"None Shall Pass" The Zed Gallery, Miami, FL
“Fresh Ingredients” The Zed Gallery, Miami, FL
2006
”Corresponding Collage”, 5 Points Studios, Queens, NY
“Dropping”, Guero, New York, NY, Curator; Alberto Lopez
“Emerging New York Artists II”, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY
2005
“BFA Thesis Exhibition”, School of Visual Arts
“The Drawing Show”, Lacasa, Greenpoint, Brooklyn
”This is not Graffiti”, Lacasa, Greenpoint, Brooklyn
”Emerging New York Artists I”, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY
“Who Am I”, William De Kooning Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands
“Mixed Up”, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY
2004
“Cuando Palabras”, Instituto de Colores, Barcelona, Espana
Walking down a city block causes a visual digestion of imagery found on the sides of decaying buildings, light posts, and humanity itself. A landscape littered with graphic texts, flashing logos, and advertisements overwhelm the senses, causing me to dissociate from the present and focus on events from the past. Life was very consistent growing up in Miami; seasons came and went with very little change. The pattern of life I was subjected to became routine, so I relocated to New York City. The change of location made me focus more on my surroundings and myself; initiating an awareness of what attracts me and how I react to it. Art is a common thread that lines my thoughts with a sense of enlightenment through creation, self-expression, and collaboration. My current artwork is derived from urban landscapes, collage, duality, and language found in everyday life.
The romance with landscapes comes from my sensibility of isolation. My focus is to create a narrative with the presence of history and relevant symbols found in daily life. Brick walls, weathered scenery, ripped posters and the absence of nature are topics I’m interested in. I use enamels, acrylic paints, watercolors, tempera, cleaning chemicals, any medium that leaves a mark. Aluminum signs are the main support for my paintings. The use of these objects enriches my obsessive mark making allowing me to repeatedly scrape layers of paint with little abrasion to the surface. By obstructing the surface text the viewer is lead to the idea of a language barrier. Being a product of two diverse cultures I’ve grown up with an appreciation for language. The dualities found in one language don’t convert easily to another; therefore I create a visual representation of what I sense when reading text.
Recalling personal memories and my own skeletons, I develop a visual world for stumps, enabling them to thrive and keep growing. Human characteristics such as language, clothing, and ingenuity infest the stumps identity. The use of one symbol to portray cultural and moral issues reiterates that humanity changes slowly, symbols create new meaning over time. A thought has a short lifespan but a symbol can’t die. Deterioration crawls under my skin and urges me to recreate this affect in a visual format, where ideas and emotions interact. I am a first generation American-Hispanic artist with roots in different continents. My mind thirsts for a constant deluge of information. Such knowledge can be seen in Cervantes’s hills, John’s Flags, and Bearden’s Jungles. A personal goal is to be acknowledged on the same wall as such individual. The wind brings change, I wish I had some.
EDUCATION
2008-2009 Master in Contemporary Arts, Universidad Europea de Madrid. Spain
2008-2009 AS Degree, Photography. Miami Dade College, Miami, Fl
2007 BFA in Mixed Media, Art, Minor in Art History.
2008-2009 Florida International University, Miami, Fl
2002-2004 Miami Dade College, Miami, Fl Associate in Arts Degree- Art
2000-2002 Coral Gables Senior High School, Coral Gables, Fl
SELECTED SOLO SHOWS
2008
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2008
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2008
2007
2006
INTERVIEWS
2008
2007
Concern with the objectivity of woman. Their Vogue like imagery, contrasted with the perception that beauty had in the past, trying to present women as icons rather than standardized beauty trends. Her current work explores the passing of time and aging, a transition between youth and the elderly, concerned with social issues and how society perceives common individuals complementary with the great deal of importance celebrities play in our common life.
