Catarsis
Subtitle: Rafael San Juan, 1996-2018
By: dirección y edición, Isabel María Pérez Pérez
Edition: 1a edición.
Publisher: ArteCubano Ediciones
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Guadalajara, Jalisco, México
Language: spa
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9789597229377
Other titles: Rafael San Juan, 1996-2018; Catarsis.; Catarsis. English.
Description: Sculptor and scenographic designer Rafael San Juan (Havana Cuba 1973) is a member of the Hermanos Saiz Association since 1999 and was sculpture professor at the San Alejandro Fine Arts Academy from 1996 to 2003 in Havana, Cuba. Founder and artistic director of the San Juan Art Foundation in Mexico, San Juan has specialized in the creation of monumental sculptures that are exhibited in different parts of the world. Using steel, concrete, ceramics, wood, stone and plaster materials he gained popularity in Cuba when in 2015 his giant sculpture "Primavera" (Spring) of a giant woman's face that looks out to sea was placed in the famous Malecon Avenue, in Havana.
Notes: Parallel texts in Spanish and English.
Table of contents: title: Prefacio = Preface / Virginia Alberdi - Anhelos= Longings / Germaine Gómez Haro; title: Numenes= Numens - Primavera = Spring / Eusebio Leal Spengler; title: Otoño = Autumn / Rafael San Juan; title: El sedimento de mi vida : El sonoro silencio objetual = The sedimento of my life: the silent sound of objects / Toni Piñera; title: Fragmentaciones = Fragments; title: Viento del norte = North wind / Rafael San Juan; title: Fragmentos inconclusos. De gozosa anatomía Rafael Miranda San Juan = Unfinished fragments, Of joyful anatomy Rafael Miranda San Juan / Ricardo Duarte; title: Caminantes: Rafael San Juan en la escultura cubana = Of joyful anatomy Rafael Miranda San Juan / David Mateo; title: La muerta de un proyecto: la muerte de un proyecto = Dead of a project: death of a project / Isabel María Pérez Pérez; title: Contención: A corazón abierto = Containment. With anpen-heart / Nelson Herrera Ysla; title: Éxodo: Sístole perpetua = Exodus: Perpetual systole / Yamile Pardo & Edel Bordon; title: Orígenes = Origins / Rafael San Juan; title: Hueco y muscular = Hollow and muscular / Alejandro Alonso; title: Retablos: Rafael San Juan, escultor y escenógrafo = Altarpieces: Rafael San Juan, sculptor and set designer / Manuel López Oliva; title: Pintura = Paint; title: Del arte y de la vida: Rafael San Juan del arte y de la vida = Art and life: Rafael San Juan of art and life / Rogelio Villarreal - Biografía = Biography.