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 Roberto Fabelo (born 1951 Camagüey, Cuba) is a contemporary Cuban artist. He is both a painter and illustrator.
Born in Guáimaro, Camagüey, Fabelo studied at The National Art School and at the Superior Art Institute of Havana. He was a professor and a jury member for very important national and international visual arts contests. The Cuban state awarded him a medal for National Culture and the Alejo Carpentier medal for his outstanding artistic career.
His work is exhibited at the Museo Nacionalde Bellas Artes in Havana, and in the Cuban embassy in Mexico.
His 2009 sculpture, entitled Survival, a group of human-headed cockroaches, can be found climbing one of the walls of the Havana Fine Arts Museum. He also illustrated a 2007 edition of Gabriel García Márquez's novel Cien años de soledad.
He was described in the Dallas Morning News in 2002 as "one of Cuba's premier artists", with high demand for his paintings in the United States and elsewhere.
Literature:
1. Moore, Robin D. (2006) Music and Revolution: Cultural Change in Socialist Cuba, University of California Press, ISBN 978-0520247116, p. 81
2. Lascom, Caroline & Cameron, Sarah (2002) Havana, Footprint Handbooks, ISBN 978-1903471494, p. 62
3. "Cuban Visual Arts Salon to be Inaugurated in Mexico", cubaheadlines.com, October 27, 2010, retrieved 2010-10-31
4. Almaguer, Osmel (2009) "Fabelo’s Cockroaches", Havana Times, April 25, 2009, retrieved 2010-10-31
5. "Cuban painter Roberto Fabelo illustrates Cien años de soledad", cubaheadlines.com, December 30, 2007, retrieved 2010-10-31
6. Eaton, Tracey (2002) "Cuban art leaps onto world scene: Collectors take notice as artists use work for political mouthpiece", Dallas Morning News, April 28, 2002
Source:
Wikipedia,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Fabelo
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 Born in Camagüey, Cuba, Roberto Fabelo studied at the Escuela Nacional de Arte and at the Instituto Superior de Arte from which he graduated
in 1981. For over a decade he was an instructor of art.
He has illustrated some ten books including some by nobel-prize laureate Gabriel García Márquez. Fabelo has exhibited in Cuba, Denmark, Sweden, Mexico, Greece, Venezuela, and Spain.
His paintings are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern art in New Delhi, Mexico’s Museo de Arte Moderno, Museo
Universitario del Chopo (Mexico), Nordiland Kunstmuseum (Denmark), and the Cleveland Gallery (great Britain).
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