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Red Dog
(El Perro Rojo)
Author: Roberto Fabelo
Year: 2017
Medium: acrylic on fiberglass, one-of-a-kind
Size: 73 x 25 x 41 inches
Inventory No: C5857
Price: $
AVAILABLE
This artwork was exhibited in XICO, Journey in
Latin America, Museum Park, Miami, FL, in front
of the Pérez Art Museum, April – July, 2017.
Exhibited in A Surrealist Century / Un Siglo Surrealista,
Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, Florida, August – November, 2024,
and illustrated digitally on cernudaarte.com, exhibitions.
To be illustrated in the upcoming catalog
IMPORTANT CUBAN ARTWORKS, Volume Twenty-One,
Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, Florida, December 2024.
Roberto Fabelo’s Red Dog, 2017 was crafted for a
site-specific installation in Miami, Florida, as part of
the international group exhibition XICO, Journey in Latin
America. The exhibition tasked each participating artist
with the reinterpretation of the Xico (or Xoloitzcuintle),
a jet-black, hairless breed widely regarded as the first
domesticated dog of the Americas. The intention behind
XICO, Journey in Latin America was to promote
Pan-American
cultural exchange, inviting dialogue between Latin American
artists and the public through their interpretation of this
ancient western symbol.
For world-renowned multimedia artist Roberto Fabelo,
whose work often includes canine companions, the assignment
was a natural fit. Red Dog, is also a convergence of many of
Fabelo’s other recurring motifs: starkly contrasting reds
and blacks, dramatic female figures, surreal human-
animal hybrids, winged figures, spiraling nautilus
shells, legumes, and the ever-present rhinoceros. In
Fabelo’s hand, these forms come together in startling
ways, creating illusions and details – the crow’s beak
outlining the eye of Xico, the coupled birds touching
beaks to form its heart, the winged female giving
sustenance to the male on the reverse, and so on.
NICO HOUGH
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