Short biography

Birth Date:  January the 1st 1971 in Habana, Cuba.

Age:  29

Parents:  Humble working class

Education:

• Primary and Junnior High
• Art vocational school "Paulita Concepción", Havana, Cuba
• "San Alejandro" art high school, Havana, Cuba

Expositions:

• 1989: Karl Marx Cultural Center, Havana Cuba. A collective work.
• 1994: Cultural Center and Art Gallery "Guayasamin"
• 1996: Exposition hall of "Gran Teatro de la Habana"
• 1998: Boston's International Art Fair-Presented by Anne Barton &
• Art Cubana.

More about him..

Born in 1971 in Havana, Cuba, Carlos Ariel showed talent for  painting since his childhood. He took part in several events, always getting first places. When he was 10 years old, he begins to study fine arts in a culture house located in his neighbourhood. This precedent helps him to enter in the vocational art school "Paulita Consepción", where he finished among the four best ones. This way, he gets a place in "San Alejandro" Fine Art Academy, the most remarkable & prestigious fine arts institution in Cuba.He also received his Art teaching certificate as well!!

During these years, he participated in 3 collective exhibitions and a personal one. After he graduating in 1990, he begins an almost invisible run toward the artistic adulthood, making another collective and personal exhibitions already mentioned in the biographical summary.

Nowadays, an important part of his work, belongs to private collections in Japan, Saudi Arabia,Switzerland, France, Spain, Canada, England, Italy, Belgium and United States.

The paintings of " Carlito " passes through a wide range of topics intertwined, forming an entire world full of personal and peculiar visions of the reality, somewhat different for him. Not by chance, the apocalyptic thing is present in almost all his work. For obligation, if we could say that. All his live is plenty of revelations and guided by a different God.


Determined to show the world "The dark side of the moon", he gives himself over the creative work , until he feels a heart beat growing up on it. Nothing stays out of the critical and contemplative eye of this creator and there is not mysterious line for his hand that moves combustibly on the canvas, making twirls that finish in alive portraits of what surrounds him. He likes to remember this sentence: "Genius isn't that one who paints something never seen, it's that one who paints something never seen as if it was old"


These words try to summarize the essence of Carlos Ariel fine art proposal,  showing that... the novel thing walks with humble suit, but not for this reason, it stops to be from and for the people.