Julio Ramon Serrano
Bio
Julio Ramon Serrano is a visual artist born in Holguin, Cuba, in 1967. The artist studied at the Higher Institute of Fine Art in 1995 and became a professor in 1998. In 2004 was appointed Dean of the Visual Art Faculty of the Higher Institute of Fine Art in Havana, Cuba, until 2007. The Artist Has received several awards and fellowships; in 2001, Serrano was appointed Artist in Residence at the University of Castilla la Mancha. In 2006, he was appointed as the Artist to reside at the Royal University of Stockholm in Sweden. He moved to Toronto, Canada, where he lives and works. The artist uses several sources as inspirational departures, such as photography, art history, psychology, politics, history, and poetry, weaved in a way that provokes ambiguity and ambivalence, in a blurred concept that leads to analysis and interpretation. Serrano has long exhibited his work internationally, in Germany, the USA, Spain, Canada, Mexico, Venezuela among others.
Statement
His art reflects a transitional state of semi-forgetfulness, of an ambiguous journey through the experience of a transplanted consciousness, in which the artist’s life story acquires both a conceptual density and a liberating lightness
Additional information
This painting is part of a series named The Golden Rule, where a text is camouflaged in a background of decorative patrons, the text itself refers to political issues and social and cultural taboos, while the use of formal resources in painting is used as a structural part of the narrative.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
