José Ángel Vincench
Bio
Jose Angel Vincench (Cuba, 1973) graduated in 1997 from the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) in Havana. He is a conceptual artist who has always preferred to intentionally infuse his artistic material with sociological, religious and political contents.
He has exhibited around the world, including at 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel (New York), Galeria Virginia Miller (Miami), and Havana Gallery (Zurich) as well as the 13th Havana Biennial (Havana, Cuba, 2019).
His work can be found in collections such as Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, Ohio; Jorge Perez, Miami, FL; CIFO, Miami, FL; Frost Museum, Florida International University, Miami, FL; Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum, Lafayette, Louisiana; Rubin Foundation, New York. USA; UBS Collection, Switzerland; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba.
Statement
Jose Angel Vincench (Cuba, 1973) is guided by relevant themes of Cuban social life and by his religious affiliation and political vision. The artist uses elements characteristic of Afro-Cuban religious rituals and decomposes them with graphic simplicity in an exercise of abstraction. His pieces explore the motifs of the context and its issues and the political in art, in a social context in which no one wants to be involved. Intentionally using gold as a medium in his compositions, he transforms each of the chosen words into mere plastic forms, empty abstractions, "pure forms", new icons that grab the public's attention and force a transfigured approach from which we reconstruct not only the original morphology of the word but its etymological meaning and, consequently, the fair, unprejudiced definition of it.
