Tomas Sanchez (Cuban B. 1948)
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Tomas Sanchez (Cuban B. 1948)

Sendero

Details
Tomas Sanchez (Cuban B. 1948)
Sendero
signed and dated 'Tomas Sanchez 1999' (lower right)
acrylic on canvas
59 5/8 x 47 7/8 in. (152.1 x 121.6 cm.)
Painted in 1999.
Provenance
Jorge Sori Fine Arts, Coral Gables.
Literature
G. García Márquez & E. Sullivan, Tomas Sanchez, Skira, Milano, 2003, p. 188, n. 158 (illustrated in color)

Lot Essay

For over thirty years Tomás Sánchez has been engaged in a constant re-investigation of the significance of landscape as a major form of artistic expression. This genre may have been exhausted and drained of all meaning beyond stereotypical kitsch. Sánchez reinvests it with a new set of signifiers which, once decoded by the viewer, reveal a depth of implication and a vocabulary of symbols that may be understood as nothing less than subversive within the parameters of contemporary art. Sánchez's manipulation of the meanings of landscape is by no means a simple artistic retread. It represents a re-insertion into the language of the avant-garde of a visual morphology long considered antithetical to contemporaneity. In his work landscape takes on an entirely new significance, becoming a bridge between the representational and the conceptual. His paintings occupy a place within the interstices of visual expression. They summon up almost-forgotten places within our imaginations and give concrete form to a set of philosophical dilemmas and enigmas that would otherwise continue to reside in the realm of the abstract.

We are grateful to Prof. Edward Sullivan for his permission to excerpt the above paragraph from Tomas Sanchez, Skira, Milano, 2003, p. 11.

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