Álvaro De Benito (Arte al Día) reviews “Submersus,” the ongoing exhibition by Dagoberto Rodríguez at Galería Casado Santapau, in Madrid, Spain. He writes, “The Cuban artist approaches the Caribbean maritime imaginary as a space of transformation, memory, and instability in Submersus, his first solo exhibition at Casado Santapau. Bringing together paintings, sculptures, and installations, the exhibition invites reflection on the fragility of forms and on the shifting boundaries between the visible and the submerged.” [Also see our previous post Exhibition: Dagoberto Rodríguez “Submersus”.]
Submersus marks Dagoberto Rodríguez’s (Caibarién, Cuba, 1969) first solo exhibition at Madrid’s Casado Santapau gallery. Through a selection of paintings, sculptures, and installations, the artist proposes an immersion into the maritime imaginary of the Caribbean. From this perspective, the sea emerges as a space of transformation, memory, and displacement, in a reinterpretation that moves beyond the merely picturesque. Water becomes an active medium that distorts and reconfigures forms and narratives, reshaping the conditions through which they are perceived.
The exhibition invites viewers to engage with the tension between stability and instability, conceptual oppositions that have come to define much of Rodríguez’s recent practice. Forms emerge only to disappear again; surfaces metaphorically expand toward uncertainty; and structures function less as fixed configurations than as transitional states. What unfolds is a visual language grounded in processes of appearance, dissolution, and perpetual transformation. [. . .]
It is precisely here that the exhibition finds its central proposition: the construction of an imaginary shaped within an environment that challenges fixity and permanence, prompting reflection on what endures, what transforms, and what remains latent. [. . .]
For full article, see https://www.artealdia.com/Galleries/DAGOBERTO-RODRIGUEZ-AND-THE-CARIBBEAN-AS-A-TERRITORY-OF-INSTABILITY
Álvaro De Benito (Arte al Día) reviews “Submersus,” the ongoing exhibition by Dagoberto Rodríguez at Galería Casado Santapau, in Madrid, Spain. He writes, “The Cuban artist approaches the Caribbean maritime imaginary as a space of transformation, memory, and instability in Submersus, his first solo exhibition at Casado Santapau. Bringing together paintings, sculptures, and installations, the exhibition