Featuring work by: Pedro Coronel, Agustin Fernandez, Edgar Negret, Rene Portocarrero, Fernando De Szyszlo, and Lina Binkele

The Anita Shapolsky Gallery proudly presents the work of six Latin American artists, each strongly identified with the connection between ancient cultures and modernist, artistic language:

Pedro Coronel (México, 1923-1985) belonged to the generation of the Zacatecas, a fundamental part of the modern Mexican art movement.

Agustin Fernandez (Cuba) lived in Paris before settling in New York. Using the machine as reference, his work conjures up subconscious, often erotic images.

Edgar Negret (Colombia) an excellent metal sculptor (artist caucano) presents pieces from his series placed on the wall and floor.

Rene Portocarrero (Cuban from Havana, 1912-1985) began at the conservative San Alejandro Art School, but his temperament dictated that he paint in a style of his own accord. His work makes him one of the most diverse painters of the Cuban avant-garde. Click here to see Portocarrero's series of studies for his famous Las Antillas Bar mural

Fernando De Szyszlo (Peru) absorbs the varied influences of cubism, surrealism, formalism and abstraction, becoming renowned in his country for expressing Peruvian subject matter in a nonrepresentational style.

Lina Binkele (Colombia) has developed a repertoire of sculpture of horses and the human figure that is classically elegant and freshly modern in its fluid expressiveness of form. She concentrates on the muscular structure, isolating and abstracting it so that one can feel the mass and sense its unyielding organic power.

Pedro Coronel Deshabitados #101

Lina Binkele Horse Bronze sculpture