Until next 11 May, the Instituto Cervantes de Madrid (calle Alcalá, 49) shows in its exhibition room Fabelo. Grafomania, a selection of works by Roberto Fabelo, a Cuban artist who works with various languages such as painting, sculpture and illustration. Free admission until capacity is full.
144 drawings made on various surfaces, 6 paintings and 1 sculpture that constitute a journey through works of different formats, selected by the commissioner, Mario José Hernández, between strange and dreamlike images that combine elements of reality and fantasy with meticulous attention to detail in a symbolic interpretation. Using vibrant colors and intricate compositions in his paintings, drawings and sculptures, he often depicts fantastic creatures, anthropomorphic animals and human figures, which due to their rich symbolism and allegorical narration is compared with Goya.
Painter, draughtsman, engraver, illustrator and sculptor, Roberto Fabelo was born in Guáimaro, Cuba on January 28, 1950. His childhood was spent in his hometown, where he constantly drew on different papers found everywhere. The passion for drawing -or “graphomania”, as he calls it- originated at that time, and what began as a playful action gradually became a vice when he understood that any support was good to make his imagination flow, conceiving strokes with pencil, charcoal, ink or any other medium. As the researcher, curator and art critic Llilian Llanes once said: “it seems that he came into the world with a pencil in his hand”.
