Artist

After many journeys, Jorge Jorge returned to Cuba in 2012, where he began to compose his images inspired by Cuban posters, new realists and art brut. It was then that he opened a gallery-workshop where he did not hesitate to criticize, through his art, a system oppressed by a policy of censorship. He then transmitted a subversive message through pop images made up of political propaganda, often loaded with a too dark and too re-revolutionary humour for the Cuban government. After a few years censorship turned against him, and his work and his right to artistic expression were, in turn, censored. In 2018, he managed to leave his country and landed in Nice, then, in Vence he opened a temporary gallery-workshop in 2019. Where he continues his creative journey by exploring a new territory and a new culture. It is in our world, where the image becomes more and more virtual that Jorge Jorge appropriates the object-image. He collects, classifies and assembles scraps of poster which he takes off in the city, thus appropriating frames of the public space to transfigure them into intimate compositions. His approach explores the various procedures of the art of collage and décollage, experimenting with supports and techniques in graphic works where the viewer-consumer recognizes himself, using a language and universal codes transmitted by advertising, culture and Politics. It diverts the ephemeral character of these posters, to offer us a personal, poetic and lasting critical vision. His purpose is to reveal the dominant culture and to give their place in art to all of their everyday images. His colorful abstract compositions are a summary of collective realities that invite the viewer to rediscover the beauty of the visual environment of the urban space. This modern-day poster artist invites us through his "tearings" to discover his universe, endowed with a disturbing sensitivity, where details coexist in flocks.