Manuel Mendive (Born 1944) Cuba
Charcoal on Paper
Date: 2022
Measure 11 1/2"in H x 16 1/2"in W and 20 3/4"in H x 25 3/4"in W with frame
Known for: Yoruba culture drawing, painting, wood carving and sculpture, mixed media
Name variants: Manuel Medive
Biography: Manuel Mendive is a significant Cuban 21st century artist. A major exponent of contemporary Afro-Cubanismo in the visual arts, he was born in 1944 into a Santera-practicing family. He graduated from the Academia de Artes Plasticas San Alejandro in Havana in 1962 with honors in sculpture and painting. He held his first one-man show at the Center of Art in Havana in 1964. Since then he has exhibited at international venues. The Cuban booth at the XLII International Biennial Exhibition of Modern Art in Venice in 1988 was completely dedicated to his works. Manuel Mendive Hoyo was born on December 15, 1944, in Luyano the same Havana neighborhood where Wifredo Lam went back to live for a few months on his "retours au pays natal" in 1942 and where Lam made his first "rediscoveries" of that visual universe Andre Breton would later describe as an un-trammelled union of real and magical worlds. It is mainly a dock and factory worker neighborhood. During the building of the latter Fermin was blinded in an accident. He was one of those anonymous master-builders who from colonial times spontaneously shaped "the style" of a city "without style" as it was aptly described by Carpentier in a memorable essay on the architecture of Havana; one of those eclectic "naifs" who were bold enough to invent scores of rare orders, with unusual, fancy columns and capitals whose design was hardly ever repeated throughout the kilometers of avenued porchways dating back to the turn of the century.

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