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Maria [from the series “Free Men”]
(Maria [de la serie “Hombres Libres”])
Author: Juan Roberto Diago
Year: 2026
Medium: brass, iron and wood sculpture
Size: 41 x 30 1/4 x 20 inches
Inventory No: 07568
Price: $
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Provenance:
Acquired directly from the artist.
To be illustrated in the upcoming catalog
IMPORTANT CUBAN ARTWORKS, Volume Twenty-Two,
Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, Florida, December 2026.
Leading Contemporary Cuban artist Juan Roberto Diago
has unveiled at the 2026 Venice Biennale his most recent
sculpture series Hombres Libres, where the artist again
examines issues of racial identity, the scars of a slave
legacy, and the unfavorable social realities of today’s
“people of color.” As South African art critic Adilson De
Oliveira has stated, the abstract idea of freedom as a
legal construct does not engulf the basic elements of
life, such as the access to decent maintenance as well
as survival in the context of trauma, violence, racial
discrimination and systemic economic, cultural and
social pressures.
Juan Roberto Diago’s artworks have been present at
Cernuda Arte since the inaugural exhibit at the gallery
in the year 2000. Later, he presented his one-artist show
My History is Your History at Cernuda Arte in July 2001.
His production is now well-known in the United States,
where he is rightly recognized as a leading figure in
the Contemporary art world.
RAMÓN CERNUDA
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