Francisco “Gordillo” Arredondo Baba Oñi’s artwork straddles two worlds – the contemporary art market and Cuba’s subterranean mysticism. A highly skilled and internationally acclaimed artist and a priest initiated into the Afrocuban religion of Santeria, Gordillo paints a personal vision of his Congo and Yoruba inheritance. His paintings embody a mythology that simultaneously divulges and celebrates the island’s rich African spiritual legacy.
Born in 1964, Gordillo graduated from Havana’s famous San Alejandro Art Academy in 1988. Since then, his work has been included in numerous group and individual exhibitions in Latin America, Europe and Canada. This exhibition -- his first retrospective -- includes over fifty paintings and mixed media works from his twenty-five year career.
Caminos Transitados / Paths Taken: A Retrospective of Francisco Gordillo Arredondo Baba Oñi
January 16 - March 13, 2016
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Foosaner Art Museum Presents Caminos Transitados / Paths Taken
