The monumental contemporary sculpture stands as a groundbreaking three-dimensional triumph by Cuban-American master Yunior Marino. This freestanding masterwork is meticulously crafted from an innovative combination of structural wood, expanded polystyrene, and hundreds of saturated textile pom-poms. The artwork manifests as a majestic, hybrid zoomorphic creature referencing sacred forest deities, completely blanketed in a kaleidoscopic skin of dense geometric textile patterns. Its sophisticated dialogue between industrial framework, folk iconography, and tactile surface texturing yields immense curatorial weight.
He conceives the creation of his paintings as mantras, in the sense that by repeating the same action, his mind empties completely.The act of painting becomes a form of meditation. Mariño explains that the time and process of creating a work are at the core of what the painting wants to mean, declaring: that is how they were made, they are what they are. Mariño frames the art of creation simply by fixing what we have once destroyed. He actively uses his past and the concept of the passage of time with universality to heal his present and future.
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Contemporary Sculpture - Madame Butterfly, 2020. By Yunior Marino
Madame Butterfly Sculpture, 2020
From Sculptures series
Wood, expanded polystyrene, and pom poms
Dimensions: 150 H x 130 W x 40 D cm.
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Yunior Marino completed his studies at the Instituto Superior de Artes de Cuba before settling in US. He has worked in different countries and has exhibited extensively in Canada, the United States, Mexico, and Cuba. For Yunior, the art of creating has no restrictions on the insular "being", but encompasses the larger universe, his paintings represent what "we are" and not only what we are as a race but "us" as a whole.
