Antuán’s current expressive itinerary is clearly consistent with his interpretation of human thought and the assimilation of contexts of both local and global realities. In his work he offers the combined energy of notions such as myth, metaphor and archetype, opening multiple perspectives to the viewer, a sort of geography intermediate between conceiving ideas and reality’s compelling meaning of reality. Antuán is situated within post-contemporary art movements that redefine what it means to be an artist, incorporating initiatives in ways of innovating and communicating. A multidisciplinary artist capable of transforming his work into the experiences of interactive participation, causing excitement and synergies of association among audiences confronted with his proposals (whether large scale urban works or more intimate objects).
Jorge Luis GutierezArt Critic
Antuan Rodríguez’s body of work across a range of media includes painting, drawing, photography, sculpture and public art. In his use of the readymade, which he often combines with handmade elements, he conflates the object and the human form and strives to involve the viewer in the subsequent dialogue. Among his recurring visual symbols are instruments of communication and sports, and common domestic articles including plumbing equipment, utensils for eating and food itself, and clothing including footwear. Shoes figure often among Antuan’s recurring visual subjects. The shoe is an indispensable item of apparel that connects us to the ground and protects us from its dangers, and its wide array of designs and styles make everyday and extraordinary activities possible. As a potent, often fetishized carrier of meaning in our culture, the shoe serves Antuan well in his art.
Noel Smithart critic
With the object and the human figure as his point of departure, ANTUAN has progressively been interested in art installations. Sculpture has been present since his early stages, the incorporation of sculpture to his artistic endeavor being a natural step in a process which has allowed him to incorporate the public as subject as well as active participant in many of his proposals. In this same way, ANTUAN, as the talented Cuban artist he is, is doted with an extraordinary sense for drawing and painting with watercolors. For ANTUAN the answer is unambiguously clear: as with all good artists, since Goya, Beckmann to Leon Golub, he also understands that the artist has to engage with the social, political and economic reality in which he happens to live and propose projects capable of transforming the world or, at least, of figuring out what a better world would look like.
Paco Barragánart critic
The works of Antuan encourage a Critical reflection oriented not only towards those figures paradigms of regimes that maintain a firm grip on the yearnings of liberty of their respective nations, but also towards occidental democracies, more and more exposed, amid the dictatorship of a post-capitalist market, to the dangerous lack of democratic control over the governments and their institutions, that is, also exposed to the totalitarian actions of their governing class The parody as discursive strategy and, also as expressive resource to represent the political and ideological content that articulate these pieces, have been a characteristic element in Antuan’s work. It is a work where the critical comment about politics, is metaphorically inscribed in the spectacular logic of a popular sport.
Dennis MatosArt Critic
I have to recognize that his social and participative work, basically in his role of activist-agent is a fundamental aspect review and highlight within his global artistic project. His international project “Base Paint” (2010-2012), produced from Miami, had a great social and community impact. A project where a very important group of artists from the United States, Latin America and Europe is activated by the artist and builds an authentic camp of tents, with aluminum frames canvas, which in their final stage will be used in Haiti as spaces for small schools, sanitary assistance centers or as places to live. The artists who have collaborated in this project, created and directed by Antuan, have a renowned career, and they donated their work and fantastic designs for these tents, first as small maquettes, then to be painted in a real scale to be finally installed in Haiti.
Orlando Britto Jinorioart critic
Art must show social function, Art must show the world as changeable and help change it – Ernst Fisher
TIME ON OUR SIDE – ART BASEL EXPO 2016
THE OTHER DIMENSION 2015
VENICE TO EXPO 2015
MATUCANA 100 – 2015
RESIDENCY IBB CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS 2014
FUSION OF ART AND INDUSTRY 2014
ESPACIO DE CREACIÓN CONTEMPORÁNEA CADIZ 2014
GLOBAL CARIBBEAN 5 EXIBITION 2014
STEALING BASE 8TH FLOOR 2013
BIENAL DEL SUR PANAMA 2013
TRANSITIONAL BODIES EXIBITION 2012
COBRA MUSEUM EXHIBITION 2011
LA TERCERA BIENAL DEL FIN DEL MUNDO 2011
MOCCA MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART 2011
BASE PAINT THE AUCTION 2011
BASE PAINT PROJECT 2010
TRIENAL INTERNACIONAL MUSEO DE ARTE MODERNO 2010
Collaborations
- Expo Venecia
- Mocca Canada
- Cobra Museum
- Musei Vaticani
- FIU Frost Museum
- Bienal Del Mundo
- Contemporary Art Museum
- Primera Trienal
- ECCO
- Tea Museum
- Molaa
- Museo de Arte Moderno
- MDC Museum of Art & Design
- Matucana 100
- Bienal del sur en Panama
- Universidad de Valencia
- USF
- University of Miami
- Bancaja
- Sculpture Key West
- Ministerio de Cultura
- Eventstar
- Studio Vald
- Galeria Nacional de Bellas Artes
- Cartier
- ideobox
- Iron Side
- Fundacion manos del sur
- Asu