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MANUEL MENDIVE
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Manuel Mendive Oyos (Havana, 1944)

Manuel Mendive is the leading Afro-Cuban artist, and quite possibly the leading Cuban artist working today.
Born to a family which practiced Santeria, he received a conventional art education at the Academy of San Alejandro.
But in his mature work Mendive returned to his Afro-Cuban roots. As Veerle Poupeye writes, he "turned to popular culture as his formal and conceptual source."
An initiate in Santeria and Palo Monte, he "practises what the Cuban critic Gerardo Mosquera has termed 'living mythological thought' and uses Afro-Cuban imagery to examine the questions of contemporary life." In describing his more recent work, Poupeye continues, "his travels to Africa in the early eighties gave new energy and depth to his work and he adopted a more informal idiom that expresses an animist, sexually suggestive vision of nature acted out by hybrid, amorphous figures..."


Mendive has exhibited at major museums around the world and is included in the leading collections of Cuban art.
 

​EDUCATION
  • 1963   San Alejandro National Academy of Fine Arts, Havana
 
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2005
  • Alimentar el espíritu, la luz, los ancestros. Oludumare, lo más hermoso, Gary Nader Art Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida
  • Madre África, Culture House of Angola, Havana
2004
  • Arte cubano moderno, Athens
  • La naturaleza y el cuerpo, Art Center, Holguín, Cuba
2003
  • Los ancestros, orishas, la naturaleza y el pensamiento, American Museum, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • Social, intelectual y chic, Biarritz
  • Evento Internacional de Sexología, National Theatre, Havana
  • Proyecto La California, 8th Havana Biennial, Havana
2002
  • Las aguas, lo cotidiano y el pensamiento, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana
  • Shangó y la vida, La Recova Hall, Tenerife, Spain
2001
  • Shangó y la vida, Cultural Center Sa Nostra, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
  • Santa Bárbara-Shangó en nuestras vidas, Universal Art Gallery, Havana
2000
  • Las aves y los peces, Galería Latinoamericana, Casa de las Américas, Havana
  • Exposición de Esculturas, Havana Club Fundation, Havana
1987
  • Para el ojo que mira, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana
  • Contemporary Art Museum, Panama City
1986
  • Conversando con los peces, Latin American Gallery, París
1984
  • Galería Plaza Vieja, Fondo Cubano de Bienes Culturales (FCBC), Havana
1982
  • Galería ORTH, Nuremberg
  • Iwalewa, Bayreuth University, Germany
1980
  • Mendive: un pintor de lo real maravilloso, L Gallery, Havana
1975
  • Tanzania National Museum, Tanzania
1964
  • Art Center, Catedral Square, Havana
 
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2001
  • Shangó y la vida, Tapaste, Cuba
  • Santa Bárbara-Shangó en nuestras vidas, Universal Art Gallery, Guines, Havana
  • Shangó y la vida (Body pinting), Cultural Center, Sa Nostra, Spain
2000
  • Las aguas, lo cotidiano y el pensamiento, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana
  • Social, intelectual y chic, Havana Club Fundation, Havana
1999
  • La odisea africana, Jonh F. Kennedy Center, Washington D.C.
  • FIAC, Paris
1997
  • ARCO´97, Joan Guaita Art Gallery, Madrid
  • Se parece a la felicidad,  6th Havana Biennial, Wifredo Lam Contemporary Art Center; Colonial Art Museum, Havana
1996
  • Festival del Caribe, Champeret Space, Paris
1994
  • Aguas profundas, Alhándiga Museum, Guanajuato, Mexico
  •  5th Havana Biennial, Wifredo Lam Contemporary Art Center, Havana
1993
  • Primer Festival de Arte y Cultura Vodum Ouidah´93, Benin
1992
  • El Mundo del Arte, El Mundo Gallery, Paris
  • Sacar lo malo, Neslé Theatre, Paris
1991
  • Shangó, Sao Paulo
1990
  • XII Festival Internacional de Ballet de La Habana, Havana
  • Yemayá y Oshún, Cívica Gallery, Cavour Square, Padua, Italy
1989
  • Art Contemprary Institute (ICA), London
1988
  • Iroko, The October Gallery, London
  • El pavo real, XLIII Venice Biennial, Venice
1987
  • Se parece a la felicidad, 6th Havana Biennial, Wifredo Lam Contemporary Art Center, Havana
  • Cartagena de Indias Modern Art Museum, San Pedro Claver Square, Colombia
 
AWARDS
2004
  • José María Heredia Medal, National Council of Plastic Arts (CNAP), Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
  • Hacha de Holguín, Holguín, Cuba
2001
  • Visual Arts National Award 2001, Havana
1995
  • Medal of Villa de Fort-de-France, Martinica
1991
  • Medal of Comuna de Saint Guiliano Terme, Italy
  • Medalla of Havana City, Havana
1989
  • Junior Olympics Medal, Japan
1988
  • Alejo Carpentier Medal, Havana
1985
  • Galería Espacio Cultural Latinoamericano Award, Paris
1970
  • First Award, II International Festival of Paint, Cannes-sur-Mer, France
1968
  • Adam Montparnasse Award, XXIV May Salon, Paris
1965
  • First Award, Drawing Salon, Havana
 
COLLECTIONS
  • National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana
  • Emilio Bacardí Museum, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
  • Museum of Modern Art, Panama City
  • Museum of Modern Art, Colombia
  • Museum of Modern Art, Paris
  • Sa Nostra Fundation, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
  • France Liberté Fundation, Paris
  • Joan Guaita Art Gallery, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
  • The Jonh F. Kennedy Center, Washington D. C.
  • Gary Nader Art Gallery, Miami
  • Seibu Group, Tokyo
  • Cultural Center of Manila, Filipinas
 

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