Rafael Soriano at the Long Beach Museum of Art

The important news that we bring to you today was published on September 15 by Asia Morris, Cultural Editor of the Long Beach Post, and refers to the late Cuban painter Rafael Soriano, who died in Cuba, and the open exhibition to the public at the Long Beach Museum of Art, with about 100 drawings and paintings of his authorship.

Born in the town of Cidra in Matanzas, a Cuban province on the Bay of Matanzas, Soriano was one of the most acclaimed abstractionists of concrete art in Cuba (introduced in Havana in 1949) and Latin America and was a part of the group Diez Pintores Concretos (Ten Concrete Painters), its members known for painting geometric, hard-edged, abstractions between 1959 and 1961, as well as bringing the geometric abstraction movement of Europe and the Americas to Cuba…

one of the most acclaimed abstractionists of concrete art in Cuba (introduced in Havana in 1949) and Latin America.Long Beach Post

Originally curated by Elizabeth Thompson Goizueta for the McMullen Museum of Art Boston College for its January 2017 exhibition of Soriano’s work in collaboration with the Rafael Soriano Foundation, the retrospective Rafael Soriano: The Artist as Mystic at LBMA shows works from his early, more geometric abstractions painted in Cuba to his later, more biomorphic shapes created in Florida following his exile..

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