Reynier Ferrer
Bio
Reynier Ferrer Pérez was born in Havana in 1979. He pursued his early studies at the School of Fine Arts at San Alejandro in his native city. Reynier had several solo exhibitions in Cuba. Among his most significant were: “Vestigios” in 2006, “Mater Natura” in 2008, and “The Roads of Memory” in 2011, with the latter in collaboration with the writer, Edmundo Desnoes. Reynier traveled to the US alongside “The Roads of Memory” exhibiting in various galleries and museums, such as the Lincoln Center in New York, the Warwick Museum in Rhode Island and the Watson Insti-tute for International Studies at Brown University, Rhode Island. In 2011, he was chosen to be an artist-in-residence at 220 Gallery in Rhode Is-land. Later, his work was selected for the Homage to One Hundred Years of Abstraction Exhibition at The National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana, Cuba. To date, his work has been exhibited individually and collectively in more than 30 countries.
Statement
My work is a reaction to the world that surrounds me. Every aspect of my interaction with day-today reality works as a stimulus for my creation. The mix of colors, textures, sounds, movements, people that I encounter in my everyday activity acts like punches or caresses in my mind, and I constantly feel the need to translate them into paintings or drawings. I usually work on several paintings simultaneously, alternating them between being on the floor or against the wall.
For me, the creative process is vital, straightforward, and at the same time, complex because everything changes, every layer of paint over others takes me to the risk that everything gets covered. Still, I must take those risks to get where I want, or as far as the painting itself asks me to stop. This adrenaline is the part of the process that I enjoy the most, the dialogue and energy created.
I paint while driving my car while walking the streets; always, my stimuli are real things and the everyday experience; also, my moods are still present.
I do not need a sketch to start; I prefer not to be conditioned by anything that limits my creative experience. Sometimes, when I have phrases, forms, or experiences before beginning to paint, they completely change when they manifest themselves during the creative process.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
