Luis Alberto Saldaña - Zapata Gallery

Saldaña, graduated from the Provincial Academy of Fine Arts "Eduardo Abela" in Havana Province with a specialization in Painting in 2006. He has received several awards in provincial art exhibitions, and his work has been featured in various national and international exhibitions.

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Statment:

"Currently, I have been interested in stepping out of the traditional schemes. I have worked in series, which has allowed me to delve deeper into things that interest me: focusing on color in one, and using a more limited palette in another. The result is an effect-oriented treatment, but closely tied to the composition of the focused element, defined, conceptualized, yet always from a very photorealistic aesthetic.The theme of insularity has been a constant in my pieces, it is what unites the entire aesthetic of my landscape and this series of reflections, fragments of forms in the water. Essentially, the sea and water have always been there, and now I can see a whole world in this series of specters that form, unstable, unrepeatable shapes that I capture and freeze from reality. It is a surface that reflects another reality. In terms of solutions, the gestural aspect of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism will be crucial for the realization of the artistic process."

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ARTWORKS IN PRIVATE COLLECTIONS:

United States (Florida, New York), the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Venezuela, Switzerland, Brazil, Mexico, Canada, United Kingdom, Russia, Cuba, and Australia.

PARTICIPATION IN ART FAIRS AND AUCTIONS:

(2021) Virtual Auction benefiting TELCHAC EDUCATION and Centro LOYOLA, ARTE1010 gallery, Mérida, Yucatán.(2021) Auction in support of the MEXICAN RED CROSS, CONSUMEL delegation, ARTE1010 Gallery, Mérida, Yucatán.(2021) Auction in support of the MÉRIDA FOOD BANK (BAMX) for COVID-19 relief efforts. ARTE1010 Gallery, Mérida City, Yucatán State, Mexico.(2017) International Contemporary Art Fair ART-LIMA, Peru(2016) Contemporary Art Fair "CH.ACO," 8th edition. Santiago, Chile.

Lianet Martínez Pino is a visual artist born in Cienfuegos, Cuba. She graduated in 2012 with a specialization in Painting from the National Academy of Fine Arts “San Alejandro” in Havana. In 2019, she completed her studies at the Higher Institute of Art (ISA), where she received the distinction of Most Creative Graduate. Since 2011, she has taken part in numerous exhibitions both in Cuba and abroad. Shortly after graduating, she was invited by Nuno Sacramento Contemporary Art Gallery to the artist residency “Mi casa es tu casa,” which concluded with the two-person exhibition “Alquimia” in Aveiro, Portugal. In 2012, 2015, 2019, and 2022 she was selected to participate in the Havana Biennial, where she presented large-scale public works. Her work is part of important collections in the United States, Puerto Rico, Portugal, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, and Cuba.In 2024, her work was selected within the curatorial section “Ejes,” together with Galería Servando, for the ZONAMACO International Art Fair at the Citibanamex Center in Mexico. That same year, she was chosen to represent Cuba at the Artomatic art event in Washington, D.C., USA. In 2025, two of her works were selected to participate in the ZONAMACO International Art Fair as part of the Galería Habana booth. She was invited to take part in the two-person exhibition “Alquimia de una Isla” held at the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas (MoCAA) in the United States. In March of the same year, she represented Cuba at the Osaka International Art Fair in Japan. In August, she was selected for the Unlimited Art Residency in New York, supported by the Cuban Artists Fund and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, which culminated in the “Blossom” Open Studio. On October 11, she presented her solo exhibition “Espacio Liminal” at Zapata Gallery in Miami, United States. At the end of October, she was invited by the Metropolitan Academy of Art of Chile to give a lecture on her work titled The Body as Shield: Matter, Identity, and Memory. One of her works (Encuentro) is currently on view at FotoFac Gallery as part of the group exhibition “Puertas al Ingenio” at Fábrica de Arte. Also at the end of October, she will be participating with one of her works in the exhibition “Paisaje bajo Sospecha” at Picci Fine Arts Gallery in Mexico City, Mexico.She is currently represented by Génesis Galerías de Arte, working within this group with Galería Habana in Havana, Cuba, and by Zapata Gallery in Miami, United States.

Lianet’s work is characterized by the use of multiple media, scales, and techniques. It includes paintings, drawings, photographs, collages, and sculptural or installation structures whose processes of reference and meaning transcend the two-dimensional plane. It is through this methodology that she channels her ideas. These stem from personal experiences—her own or others’—in dialogue with everyday contexts and broader experiences that inform and shape her working process.