Danco in D.F.
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The young Cuban artist living and working in Mexico is expanding, literally. While his entire body of work deals with memory, normally in the form of miniature momentos frozen in time and place, he has begun to paint larger works on the same theme. Below are two pieces, Sonido, below at 10 x 7 in, framed in an antique frame and Sobre la Cama, directly below, 23 x 34.75 in.
Duportai Garcia is a graduate of the esteemed La Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes, San Alejandro in Havana. His work has been shown in Havana, Miami, Paris and Los Angeles, as well as in the PAN Museum of Contemporary Art, Naples, Italy.
Danco Duportai Garcia
b. 1997
Holguin, Cuba
Duportai Garcia studied at the Provincial Academy of Fine Arts, Eduardo Abela, in San Antonio de Los Baños then went on to graduate from The National Academy of Fine Art, San Alejandro, in Havana. The artist began painting “consciously” at the age of ten leading to what he likens to a compulsion. “I paint every day, and if I’m not painting, I’m thinking about painting. It’s a vice, a ritual...” More...
The Miniature Portrait Project
“Tokens of Memory : The Miniature Portrait Project” is a work in process. The exhibition will feature a massive collection of diminutive portraits by the young Cuban artist Danco Duportai Garcia. His interest in painting in miniature arises from the desire of making each of these works more intimate, he focuses on the smallest detail.
The portrait is the main language of Duportai Garcia’s work and with that he seeks to achieve two main goals. One is to capture the personality of the subject in just a few centimeters, and the second is to rescue the miniature portrait from its steady decline since the 19th century.
“The size of the portraits is actually a great equalizer, at once reflecting and removing them from their past…”, said curator Stacy Conde, “…their size and medium have democratized the tradition of giving a portrait as a memento, and removed the act from the exclusivity of the cultural elite.”
Each gold framed, oil on canvas portrait included in “Tokens of Memory : The Miniature Portrait Project” series is 8 x 10 cm or 3.15 x 3.9 inches in size and priced at $700, shipping is included. If you would like to participate in the project and commission a portrait, please contact us by clicking the button below.