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.