Yoan Capote: Litoral

Ben Brown Fine Arts is pleased to announce Litoral, an exhibition of new works by Cuban artist Yoan Capote at our Palm Beach gallery. This is the artist’s fifth solo exhibition with Ben Brown Fine Arts, and first solo exhibition at the Palm Beach gallery. Litoral brings together a comprehensive selection of iconic seascape paintings, hailing from the artist’s celebrated Requiem, Isla and Purificación series, as well as two unique sculptural pieces.

 

Capote’s preoccupation with the sea stems from his childhood memories of growing up on the politically isolated island of Cuba and his strong yearning to see and experience the outside world. The artist muses, “The sea is an obsession for any island population . . . When I was a child, I looked to the horizon and would imagine the world beyond. The sea represents the seductiveness of these dreams, but at the same time danger and isolation.” This duality is revealed in his seascape paintings – they are at once meditations on the sublime beauty and boundlessness of the wild seas, yet their construction of sharp, menacing fishhooks and barbed wire, many tainted with traces of blood, firmly connotes the dangers and impossibility of migration experienced by many Cubans, and countless others around the world.