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Luis Cruz Azaceta
Azaceta looks at exile as a sequence: the initial phase of wanting to leave the country and then the longing to go back. Both processes are extremely painful, difficult, and traumatic: leaving is complicated, and not being able to return is equally throbbing for many.
Gustavo Acosta
There is always an emotional intensity behind Acosta’s artwork, partially reflected in the artist’s brushstrokes and partially in what the viewer ‘reads’ according to his own experiences. Acosta’s pieces have the power of inciting all kinds of thoughts perhaps because of their emptiness: the negative space works out as a positive one, and what is implicit becomes the most important part of the piece.