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Art and History
at the Banco popular dominicano visual arts collection
opens the mural «Petrified Culture» (Paris, 1992) and in Freddy Javier. (Hato Mayor del Seibo, 1946). Graduated
1997 was awarded the Order of Merit of Duarte, Sán-
chez and Mella, by the Dominican Government. Other from ENBA, is a member of the group «Reflejo.» He held
national and international awards establish his stature as seven solo exhibitions between 1975-1996. Among his
an active painter and exhibitor maestro: «Evolutionary youth awards, he obtained the first award of National Stu-
Persistence of Form in Matter» (1998), «Footprint of the dent Drawing Contest sponsored by the University Madre
Future» (2000), among others, «Oviedo last decade 1994- y Maestra (1969), and among his professional awards the
2003 «at the Cultural Center of Spain, Santo Domingo. pictorial of the Ministry of Agriculture (1983) and drawing
on the 1994 National Biennial. He is a teacher at the Na-
«Tight-rope Walker Over Antonio Toribio’s Sculpture,» tional School and participates in countless group exhibi-
mix/canvas, 52x61 cm., no date v «Simulacra 4,» oil/canvas tions. The painter had rehearsed many discursive searches
114x122 cm., no date v «Celebration at the Batey,» mix/can- until finding the theme of mass transportation, urban or
vas, 60x76 cm., no date v «Tomasito no quiere ir a la ciudad,» popular with which creates and enforces identification
mix/canvas, 110x75 cm., no date v «Somewhere,» mix/canvas, based on visual research and being a protagonist. If at first
75x101 cm., no date v «Trapped By His Own Invention,» mix/ he focused presentations inside the overcrowded buses and
canvas, 76x60 cm., no date v «Daybreak,» mix/canvas, 75x100 their passengers, some of them holding to avoid falling, his
cm., no date v «Aquatic Dance,» mix/canvas, 76x100 cm., no agenda widened in a variety of approaches and chromatic
date v «Twilight Over Plutón,» mix/canvas 71x101 cm., no composition. About this matter Marianne de Tolentino
date v «En el carrito de Don Juan nos vamos,» mix/canvas, writes: He enriched the figurer’s behavior and gestures, applying
76x101 cm., no date. his knowledge both from academia and contemporary currents
and fusing and alternating –Cubism, Futurism, Expressionism–.
Antonio–Cuquito-Peña. (Santiago1946/Santo Domin- He got out of the bus. He walked down the street and got on pub-
lic cars. He even rode a Motoconcho, of course, metaphorically…
go, 2013). Draftsman, painter and restorer of paintings and through the experiences summarized in his reinvention of the sur-
murals, was formed at the Painting Academy of Fine Arts rounding reality. (M.D.T. Listín Diario, March 1, 1989).
in his hometown, where he held his first solo on Victorian
architectural motifs. With studies in Madrid, Spain and a «Motoconcho en 4. Transport Series,» acrylic/canvas,
teaching position at the Autonomous University of Santo
Domingo, he held a number of solo exhibitions, rang- 74x100 cm., 1989 v «Waiting For The Transport,» mix/can-
ing from water-colour techniques, drawing and acrylic,
as well as in costumbrista and landscape subjects and lan- vas, 50x61 cm., 1989 v «Chaos. Transport Series,» mix/canvas,
guages. Heir of master Don Jacinto Domínguez Tropical
Cubism, he creates his own personal touch accentuating 75x100 cm., 1989 v «¿Y esto qué…?,» mix/canvas, 40x50 cm.,
the schematic contours, leading to a private geometric ex-
pressionism, the most visual identifier of its discourse. 1989 v «Motoconcho. Transport Series,» mix/canvas, 60x75
«Composition,» oil/canvas, 105x71 cm., 1970 v «Carriage,» cm., 1989 v «Si las guaguas volaran,» mix/canvas, 39x50 cm.,
serigraph/paper, 76x50 cm., 1986 v «Fierce,» serigraph/paper,
69x49 cm., no date v «Composition,» acrylic/paper, 60x90 cm., 1987 v «Invalidar el motoconcho. Transport Series,» mix/can-
no date v «Palm Trees,» watercolor/paper, 88x60 cm., no date
v «Merchant Woman,» watercolor/paper, 60x88 cm., no date vas, 50x60 cm., 1989 v «Collector. Transport Series,» mix/
v «Untitled,» acrylic/canvas, 100x72 cm., no date.
canvas, 100x126 cm., 1990 v «Suban todos. Transport Series,»
mix/canvas, 59x74 cm., 1989 v «Danger. Transport Series,»
mix/canvas, 50x60 cm., 1989 v «Two Days of June. Transport
Series,» acrylic/canvas, 76x101 cm., 1989 v «Heralds,» mix/
canvas, 76x101 cm., no date v «No Transport,» mix/canvas,
90x114 cm., 1988. «Motoconcho v Transport Series,» mix/can-
vas, 126x100 cm., 1989.
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