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Roberto Fabelo
Cuba, b. 1951

Roberto Fabelo Cuba, b. 1951

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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Roberto Fabelo, La Persistencia del Animal, 2012
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Roberto Fabelo Cuba, b. 1951

La Persistencia del Animal, 2012
Oil on canvas
92 x 79 inches
233.7 x 200.7 cm
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Further images

  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1 ) Roberto Fabelo, Delicatesen, 2003
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 2 ) Roberto Fabelo, Delicatesen, 2003

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This large-scale painting exemplifies Roberto Fabelo's exploration of the grotesque convergence between human and animal natures, a central theme in his 2012 exhibition No somos animales. Drawing from the artist's...
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This large-scale painting exemplifies Roberto Fabelo's exploration of the grotesque convergence between human and animal natures, a central theme in his 2012 exhibition No somos animales. Drawing from the artist's obsessive pursuit of zoomorphic alterations, the work depicts a hybrid figure that embodies the degradation of human essence into primal instincts, evoking the servility, abjection, and brutality observed in contemporary Cuban society. As articulated in critical reflections on Fabelo's oeuvre, such forms serve as a synthetic and connotative warning, illustrating the loss of values and the exaltation of frenzy where moral and intellectual genes undergo mutation. The composition confronts viewers with a cry of repulsion and alarm, urging a ethical revision of the social body through its hallucinatory expression built between daydream and wakefulness.

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Exhibitions

“Roberto Fabelo: No Somos Animales (We Are Not Animals),” Galería Habana, Vedado, Havana, Cuba, November 21 – December 21, 2012 (Premiere solo exhibition; La Persistencia del Animal, 2012, was a central work in the show, with studio views, installation views, and details documented in the accompanying catalog.)


“EXPO CHICAGO,” Cernuda Arte, Festival Hall, Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois, United States, April 11–14, 2024.


“A Surrealist Century / Un Siglo Surrealista,” Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, Florida, United States, September 6, 2024 – January 1, 2025.

Literature

“Roberto Fabelo: No somos animales,” exhibition catalogue, Galería Habana (with texts by Leonardo Padura and Caridad Blanco), Havana, Cuba, 2012 : pp. 8, 24, 25–27 (Studio view with the artist illustrated on the front overlap; installation view p. 8; full illustration p. 25; details illustrated pp. 26–27.)


“Our daily jungle (La selva nuestra de cada día),” essay by Leonardo Padura, Roberto Fabelo Studio (Reasoned Catalog / Reviews), Havana, Cuba, November 2012.


Roberto Fabelo, edited by Isabel María Pérez Pérez, Seville, 2016 : pp. 70, 71.


“IMPORTANT CUBAN ARTWORKS, Volume Twenty,” Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, Florida, 2023 : page 94.


“Persistencia del animal (Persistence of the animal),” online auction catalogue entry (Lot 60, New Now), Phillips, New York, New York, United States, 2023.

Provenance

Roberto Fabelo Studio > Galería Acacia > Private Collection Portugal 
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