Agustin Fernandez: The Metamorphosis of Experience Special Exhibitions Long-distance trekking

Long-distance trekking

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Agustin Fernandez: The Metamorphosis of Experience Special Exhibitions Long-distance trekkingAgustn Fernndez (b. 1928, Havana; d. 2006, New York) is an indispensable figure among Cuban artists and within international postwar modernism. Although he did not consider himself a Surrealist or a strictly erotic painter, Fernndez developed a distinctive pictorial practice that explored the relationships between eroticism and violence, human anatomy and machinery, and unconscious yearnings and obsessions. After leaving Cuba in 1959, Fernndez lived