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Rogelio López Marín (Gory)
Rogelio Lopez Marin (known as Gory, and now an expatriate and a painter
who lives in Miami) mingles image and text. Gory's work from the 1980s
uses layered
negatives to fabricate magical stories--an abandoned swimming pool filled
by a
breaking ocean wave, or featuring an automobile standing Christ-like on
the surface
of the water. The photographs are coupled with poetry.
Gory's 1986 photo-text piece is also the show's first work in color, and
it turns
out to be one of the few. The overall emphasis on black-and-white pictures
throughout the last 40 years of "Shifting Tides" offers silent
testimony to material
privations, with which these artists must cope.
Gory, superimposes images of a swimming pool, the open sea, vegetation,
a battered car, and accompanies all of them with the words of a despairing
poem, as if to evoke the surreal dream-state that Cuba has become
In Buñuel's Viridiana, a hand crawls into the protagonist's chamber.
It's not a dream. For the Cuban artist known as Gory (Rogelio López
Marín), truth can accommodate magic, and his photographic images
are impossible and bewildering. This art has craft and a sense of poetry.
His works may include horses running wildly in New York's streets, locomotives
carrying weird mannequins on the sea, a priceless Picasso resting next
to a fence in an abandoned parking lot, and doves witnessing our civilization.
Gory employs a bit of pittura metafisica style, blended with technological
gusto.
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