Alejandro Campins’“Sucedáneos” – Repeating Islands

New shows for 2024 at Galleria Continua/Paris include French Moroccan artist Leila Alaoui’s “Made in India;” Marta Spagnoli (Italy), with “Scavengers;” and Alejandro Campins (Cuba), with “Sucedáneos.” The exhibition opening takes place on January 19, 2024, at Galleria Continua/Paris, located at 87 rue du Temple, Paris 3e, France.

Alejandro Campins Fleita (Manzanillo, Cuba 1981) lives and works between Havana and Madrid. He studied at “El Alba” Professional Academy of Fine Arts in Holguin (2000) and the Higher Institute of Arts (ISA) in Havana (2009). Campins’ paintings, drawings and photographs explore the genre of landscape and places with a strong emotional charge that challenge our perception of space and time. 

In 2019 he was part of the Cuban Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale and of the XIII Havana Biennial. Among his solo exhibitions [are]: Memoria oculta, Fondation  Brownstone, Paris, France (2023), Distancia interna, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy (2022) Perpetuate-dislocate-perpetuate, Fondazione Giuliani, Italy (2021); Miedo a la muerte es miedo a la verdad, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam, Havana, Cuba (2019); Public Declaration, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy (2017); City of Queen Anne´s Lace (Duo Show), Wasserman Projects, Detroit, Michigan (2017); Los ojos de la percepción, Fototeca de Cuba, Havana, Cuba (2016) and Lapse, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York (2016). [. . .]

For more information, see https://www.galleriacontinua.com/artists/alejandro-campins-13/special-projects and https://www.galleriacontinua.com/

[Shown above: “Viento de Ralung,” detail from the series Tíbet, 2022, oil on canvas, 162 x 130 cm. Photo: Ela Bialkowska.]