Michel V. Meulenert
Born: 1979
Hometown: La Habana
Based in: La Habana
The artist Michel V. Meulenert (Havana 1979), graduated from the University of the Arts (ISA), Faculty of Visual Arts. Member of the Plastic Arts Section of the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC). His artistic practices include media such as painting, sculpture, drawing, illustration, installations, and interventions in public spaces. The human figure, social issues, the spiritual, the everyday, play a preponderant role within the work, being the most general themes on which he speaks. In his works, he arranges a gestural and deconstruction scenario to play with forms, creating suggestive and dissolved environments that caress the border between the figurative and abstraction. The work of this artist is born from his most genuine creativity and imagination, spontaneity and constant experimentation are inherent features of Meulenert's creative process, based on experiences that are used as artistic material and each work is assumed as a record of that. He has to his credit more than 60 personal and collective, national and international exhibitions, winner of various awards and scholarships; His work is part of different private collections in countries such as the United States, England, Australia, France, Spain, Italy, Latvia.
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What inspires you?
The lifestyle of our contemporary society, as well as social relationships, are my main motivations.
Describe your creative process.
I have a gestural and deconstruction scenario to play with forms creating suggestive and dissolved environments that caress the border between the figurative and abstraction. Spontaneity, constant experimentation, are inherent traits in my work, concerned with capturing feelings, emotional states, everyday situations that, by faithfully representing external reality.
What are 3 words that best describe your work?
Experimentation, spontaneity, communication.
Who are some artists that have influenced your work?
Beginning with German expressionism, from the historical avant-garde. Munch and Ensor, pioneers of the grotesque and the strange, as well as other German expressionist painters such as Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Franz Marc, Marc, Otto Dix. Likewise, I have been interested in the abstract expressionism that developed in the United States, Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, David Smith or Clyfford Still, other artists such as Jasper Johns as one of the first pop artists in the United States, likewise, the work of Robert Rauschenberg.
What is the most important tool when creating your work?
Imagination
What is the best piece of advice you have been given?
Create good art
Where do you go for inspiration?
From my surroundings, of everything that surrounds me, of the daily