ERNESTO JORGE FERRIOL PEREZ

1971 HOLGUIN CITY. CUBA.

 

EDUCATION

-VOCATIONAL  SCHOOL  OF  ART “ RAUL  GOMEZ  GARCIA”,  HOLGUIN CITY 1985

-PROFESSIONAL  SCHOOL  OF  ART “ EL  ALBA”, HOLGUIN CITY. 1989.

-MAYOR  IN  PAINTING  AT  FINE  ARTS  INSTITUTE “ I.S.A.”  HAVANA  CITY 1995

-MEMBER  OF  THE  UNION OF WRITERS AND ARTISTS OF CUBA.    U.N.E.A.C.  HOLGUIN CITY

-CURRENTLY  LIVING  AND  WORKING  IN OSAKA CITY, JAPAN SINCE  2003

 

THE INTELECTUAL EXPERIENCE ABOUT TRANSLATING MY OWN SPIRITUAL BACKGROUND ROOTED IN CUBAN CULTURE WITH ELEMENTS TAKEN FROM CONTEMPORARY LANGUAGES OF VISUAL COMMUNICATION TODAY, SUCH AS ANIMATION AND ILLUSTRATION, CREATING A NEW METAPHORICAL IMAGERY IN THIS STEADY CONFRONTATION, IS THE RESULT OF MY WORK.  

     

PLEASURES, PRAYERS AND LIES IS A SERIES OF WATERCOLOURS IN WHICH I EXPLORE PART OF THE NEW CUBAN REALITY ,ESPECIALLY AFTER THE COLLAPSE OF THE COMMUNIST BLOCK. THE GREAT UTOPIA  ALWAYS LONGING FOR THE PERFECT SOCIETY AND THE NEW MAN, SEEM TO BE GONE. AS CONSEQUENCE OF IT, NEW AND UNKNOWN FORMS OF BEHAVIOR AND ATTITUDES HAVE EMERGED AMONG A SECTOR OF CUBAN PEOPLE.  IN THESE SCENES, SOME OF THEM SEEN, OTHERS IMAGINED, I WANT TO CAPTURE THE DISTURBING IMPACT GENERATED ON ASPECTS RELATED TO SOCIALIST MORALITY SUCH AS PRIDE, INTEGRITY,SELF-ESTEEM AND DIGNITY AS WELL AS A KIND OF TRANSGRESSION THAT OPERATES ON SEXUAL BAHAVIORS. I WANT TO DISCLOSE THIS CONTRADICTION THROUGH HUMOR, FANTASY AND PSYCHOLOGICAL GAZE.

I LEAVE THE AUDIENCE THE CHANCE TO FIND [AS A VOYEUR] THE PLEASURES, TO HEAR THE PRAYERS AND RECOGNIZE  THE LIES.