Roberto Fabelo Cuba, b. 1951
100 x 71.1 cm
Roberto Fabelo’s "Ensoñación" suspends the viewer in the precise threshold where waking consciousness dissolves into the raw logic of the dream. Rendered in dense, tactile crayon on paper, a monumental hybrid figure hovers in an indeterminate void, its body a porous vessel that refuses separation between human form and animal impulse. Limbs elongate into phantasmagoric extensions, features blur between vulnerability and instinct, and the entire anatomy becomes a site of subconscious eruption—flesh and shadow intertwining without hierarchy or resolution. Through masterful layering of line and saturated tone, Fabelo captures the exact instant when rational identity surrenders, allowing desire, memory, and the grotesque to coexist in unfiltered communion. The work asserts that true reverie is never passive escape but an active, unflinching confrontation with the self: the only space in which the human can fully inhabit its contradictions, free from the ideological and moral constraints of the waking world. In Fabelo’s lexicon, the daydream is both sanctuary and indictment—the place where Cuba’s collective unconscious finally speaks without censorship.
Exhibitions
“ROBERTO FABEL O: The Theater of Life – Twenty Artworks from the 1990’s to Today,” Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, Florida, United States (post-2016 presentation).
“A Surrealist Century / Un Siglo Surrealista,” Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, Florida, United States, September 6, 2024 – January 1, 2025.
Literature
IMPORTANT CUBAN ARTWORKS, Volume Fourteen Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, Florida, 2016 Page 108