Artworks

Gustavo Pérez Mónzon

Rio Verde (Textile)

Wool

180 x 135 cm

2021

Gustavo Pérez Mónzon

Mañana (Embroidery)

Yarn on linen fabric

74 x 150 cm

2019

Gustavo Pérez Mónzon

Rio Negro (Textile)

Wool

182 x 140 cm

2021

Gustavo Pérez Mónzon

Agosto

Pencil, paper, trovicel

120 x 90 cm

2021

Gustavo Pérez Mónzon

Rio Verde 1

Mixed media on cardboard

95 x 70 cm

2021

Gustavo Pérez Mónzon

Untitled 2

Mixed media on cardboard

95 x 70 cm

2021

Gustavo Pérez Mónzon

Untitled 3

Pencil, dry pigment on cardboard

70 x 95 cm

2021

Gustavo Pérez Mónzon

Junio

Pencil with paper on trovicel

120 x 90 cm

2021

Gustavo Pérez Mónzon

Noviembre 2

Self-adhesive vinyl on wall

266 x 412 cm

2021

Gustavo Pérez Mónzon

Río Lleno 1

Pencil, dry pigment on cardboard

95 x 70 cm

2021

Gustavo Pérez Mónzon

Río Verde 2

Mixed media on cardboard

95 x 70 cm

2021

Gustavo Pérez Mónzon

Rio Lleno (Textile)

Wool

180 x 135 cm

2022

Rio Verde (Textile)
Mañana (Embroidery)
Rio Negro (Textile)
Agosto
Rio Verde 1
Untitled 2
Untitled 3
Junio
Noviembre 2
Río Lleno 1
Río Verde 2
Rio Lleno (Textile)

Artist

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Gustavo Pérez Mónzon

Gustavo Pérez Monzón is from a generation of artists that conceptually and formally transformed visual arts in Cuba, during the last decades of the 20th century. His participation in the collective exhibition Volume I in 1981, at the International Art Center in Havana, was a breakthrough within the art production done until then on the island, and a declaration of his interest in geometric abstraction.

Gustavo works on fragile, subtle, and honest mediums, with most of his work done on paper and cardboard. He's also made installations of suspended threads that connect, in an almost scientific arrangement, with the hidden mysteries of numbers, as well as tapestries where the representation of philosophical and esoteric concepts meet, thanks to the repetitive and sophisticated act of weaving.

Monzón expresses in quite a cryptic manner the way a certain set of forces and relationships rule human connections; his work reflects upon a sort of metaphysics of line and space. The use of symbols as language and synthesis of complex thought; the use of mathematics and geometry as manifestations of an attempt to order natural chaos; and the tarot, like a mystical alphabet that establishes links between destiny and intuition. Consequently, his work opens the world to an important consideration of the limits and directions of abstraction in art.

"I see myself as always: trying to integrate what is happening and hoping to find its meaning."