Yeinier Núñez López (Wajiro) – MICELIO

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Yeinier Núñez López (Camagüey, 1995), better known as Wajiro, is making his way in the contemporary Cuban sculptural panorama with an attractive visuality, rigorous as well as lively. The accurate knowledge of the processes concerning the sculptural practice, acquired during his undergraduate studies at the University of the Arts (ISA) and, later on, perfected in his daily work, has been decisive in the configuration of his particular creative methodology.

Wajiro, somehow in tune with povera art, looks for the raw material in the everyday landscape for the conception of his models: forms that he then goes on to mold in plaster. Perishable elements, independent or arranged in capricious -and also ephemeral- assemblages, constitute the positive to be copied and then petrified with the resin foundry. In this operation of immortalizing by means of tracing and reproducing these anodyne fragments of reality – fortuitous or constructed by himself – lies perhaps his greatest success. With these traces taken from the sensitive universe, and returned to art in unsuspected ways, he places us before an aesthetic of simulation. His volumes rarefy the tangible referent, proposing a visual game that moves from the figurative to the abstract.