REYNIER LEYVA NOVO REFLECTS ABOUT THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
The Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston presented the first solo museum exhibition at the United States of Cuban conceptual artist Reynier Leyva Novo.
Former Present Today presents a newly realized installation and painting series to simultaneously reveal and conceal monuments, structures, and figureheads which manifest revolution and tyranny. The works are created through research on icons and memorialization and how the prestige of nation established through revolution utilizes both facts and myths as a means of propaganda.
The exhibition reflects upon monuments and public sculpture in nationalist ideology and the failed journey to social utopia. The first iteration of this project was realized at the 2019 Aichi Triennale in Japan where Novo created two sculptures of 1:1 replicas of monuments in Russia and presented them with paintings of slogans and images cut out from propaganda posters made by avant-garde artists in Soviet-era Russia.
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Reynier Leyva Novo. Blind Paintings, Mnemosyne’s Whisper (Christopher Columbus Statue, Minnesota State Capitol, June 10, 2020), 2023. Image courtesy of the artist and Stephen Hanley, Imaging and Conservation Specialist, MFAH Sarah Campbell Blaffer Conservation Lab, Acrylic paint and graphite on canvas, infrared photograph printed on EPSON Cold Press acid free paper, 340 gsm.
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Reynier Leyva Novo. Blind Paintings, Mnemosyne's Whisper detail (2023), courtesy of the artist and Stephen Hanley, Imaging and Conservation Specialist, MFAH Sarah Campbell Blaffer Conservation Lab
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Reynier Leyva Novo. What It Is, What It Has Been (George Washington), 2023. Courtesy of the artist.
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Reynier Leyva Novo. Blind Paintings, Mnemosyne’s Whisper (Christopher Columbus Statue, Minnesota State Capitol, June 10, 2020), 2023. Image courtesy of the artist and Stephen Hanley, Imaging and Conservation Specialist, MFAH Sarah Campbell Blaffer Conservation Lab, Acrylic paint and graphite on canvas, infrared photograph printed on EPSON Cold Press acid free paper, 340 gsm.
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Reynier Leyva Novo. Blank Check About how to empty the mind (2020). Performance series Ed. # 1, Havana. Photos by Arien Chang. Black and white 35 mm. Negative Silver gelatin print and texts.
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Reynier Leyva Novo. The Flowers of my Exile, Carnegiea gigantea - Saguaro Sunday, May 22, 2022 Carefree, Arizona, United States Day 324
Novo’s work challenges ideology and symbols of power, questioning notions of an individual’s ability to affect change. His works form an interventionist response to the seemingly recognizable in the spaces of public memory, known histories, and axis’ of power around us. The artist is renowned for political responses to the politics of Cuba through creating a new space among Cuban artists who, over the past several decades, have worked across media to address issues of censorship, freedom, and utopia. Novo takes on the same challenges with a heightened sense of formal accomplishment through conceptual works. Novo’s commitment to deconstructing myths while highlighting the fragments of reality and lived experiences that generate them has led him to political activism through art.
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