Wilfredo Prieto

Composed of numerous installations, sculptures and interventions which sometimes make us doubt about whether we are employing the right categorizations, which are weak in the borderline along which Wilfredo Prieto moves, Amarrado a la pata de una mesa (Tied to a table’s leg) contacted us in a direct way with a world of universal and diverse concepts, in which semantics play a leading and fundamental role when it comes to interpreting these simple yet enormously rich images proposed to us by the Cuban artist. This first visual impact gradually turned into a reflection which led us to the different meanings of each image. The works exhibited (some of them specially prepared for this particular show), made of simple and everyday materials turned into formally simple yet conceptually accurate elements, resulting from a process through which Prieto proposes to always encounter the perfect image to reflect his thinking. A sometimes imperceptible personal sense of humor, based on contrasts and the absurd, is always present in his artistic production. Hence, minimal interventions and elements which are out of context but which are however, full of critique and meaning, may seem totally arbitrary, which together with the ephemeral quality of some of the works, reflect with a minimal gesture the intricacies of the language, of its play and, ultimately, of the relationship between art and everyday life.