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THE BURDEN OF WORDS: Gold Leaf Works
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532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel is pleased to present The Burden of Words, the fifth solo exhibition by acclaimed Cuban artist José Vincench, featuring gold leaf paintings on canvas created between 2018 and 2025. For over three decades, Vincench has defined his practice through four interconnected pillars — Context, Religion, Text, and Abstraction —visualizing the complexities, contradictions, and curtailed freedoms of life in Cuba. Abstraction serves as a subversive tool, synthesizing history and engaging ethical dilemmas. As Vincench questions, ‘What am I? A political abstract or an abstract politician?’ His work echoes 1950s Latin American abstract movements, balancing universal dialogue with local critique.
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Plebiscito, 2018, 22 kt on gold leaf, 250 x 250 cm -
Interrogating resistance, Oposición and Confundido 4 transform rhetoric into abstract forms, highlighting the tension between speech and silence in contemporary Cuba.
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Paz, 2023, 22 kt gold leaf on canvas, 60 x 60 cm
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GOLD ABSTRACTION SERIES (2022-25)
This series of five 50 x 50 cm 22 kt gold leaf on canvas paintings explores paradoxes of power, privilege, and societal decay through abstract forms. The shimmering gold surfaces convey opulent fragility, masking critiques of corruption, disorientation, and folly—reflected in Spanish titles like Escoria and Nepotismo. As intimate counterparts to larger works, they invite reflection on ethical ambiguities, best viewed together in a contemplative alcove.
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Pintura de Acción, 2024, 22 kt gold leaf on canvas, 200 x 261 cm
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Plebiscito #1, 2022, 23 kt gold leaf on canvas, 150 x 150 cm
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