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Embellished Offerings [from the series “Energy for Love and Kindness”]
(Abalorios [de la serie “Energía para el Amor y la Bondad”])
Author: Manuel Mendive
Year: 2015
Medium: mixed media sculpture in metal frame
Size: 50 x 36 1/2 x 17 1/4 inches
Inventory No: 05562
Price: $
SOLD
Exhibited in Twenty-One Distinguished
Artists of The 21st Century, Cernuda Arte,
Coral Gables, FL, Nov. 2025 – May 2026, and
illustrated digitally on cernudaarte.com,
exhibitions.
Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN ARTWORKS,
Volume Thirteen, Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, FL,
2016, page 122.
This artwork is accompanied by a
Photo Certificate of Authenticity,
signed by the artist.
This artwork is accompanied
by a Photo-Certificate of Authenticity
signed by Dr. Guillermina Ramos Cruz.
Dr. Ramos Cruz is the author of the book
Lam y Mendive, Arte Afrocubano, Linkgua Ediciones,
Barcelona, Spain, 2009.
Acquired by a Private Collector in Miami, Florida.
“Manuel Mendive is one of the most original
Cuban painters. His body of work is integrated by
components taken from traditional popular culture,
giving fundamental weight to elements of African
origins, as they have been transculturized in Cuba,
focusing specially in the rich cultural treasures
of the Yoruba mythology. These inspirations are the
base and not the objective. The vision of Mendive
is natural, from within, contrary to other artists,
victims of the superficial seduction of the magic
conscience of the Negro, which reduces their art
to a simple reflection of lesser pictorial worth.
The importance of the painter [Mendive] resides
in the use of the surviving narratives of the
mythological ancient stories - so alive in the
underdeveloped countries - as a way to achieve his
vision of the world. ...Mendive is a representative
artist of mixed cultural breeding of the Caribbean.
His strong artistic identity, combined with his
attention to human problems of the most general
character (about the history of mankind and current
social issues) elevate his art to a projection
above the mere Caribbean dimension towards a
transcendental state. We are witnessing an
original contribution of the Caribbean to
the patrimony of humanity.”
Gerardo Mosquera
Doce Pintores Cubanos,
Ministry of Culture, Havana, Cuba,
August 1982, page 20.
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