Artist of the day, February 20, 2020: Irene Sierra Carreño, a Cuban artist (#922)

Irene Sierra Carreño (1965) is a Cuban artist. She has been considered, by critics, as a creator of worlds or parallel worlds. Her images produce an impression as if they were "doors" that invite them to be transferred. She is the creator of a varied and extensive work where the composition structure of the painting is manipulated, showing successive planes and multiple points of view in which countless elements and intercultural reference signs coexist; screened by a personal filter that results in a unique way of seeing and representing. A prolific artist featured in the area of ​​painting, sculpture, drawing, and ceramics.

She was born in Havana in a family of artistic tradition. Her maternal home was frequented by figures from Havana's intellectual environment, among which the writer José Lezama Lima stands out, with whom the family had a great affinity. That relationship of familiarity with the poet and his creative environment could be considered an early influence on the iconography of the creator, in which characteristics of what researchers have called the expression of the American Baroque are appreciated. In that sense, she paid tribute to her in a painting titled "Spring Hat" where she makes a metaphorical portrait of Rialta, a central female character of the novel " Paradiso" which was described and characterized by the author, sympathetically, as someone who changes of hat according to the season of the year. The painting, in turn, is an autobiographical portrait of his family life.

At an early age, she showed her vocation and artistic talent, being awarded in several competitions of children's painting. From 1976 to 1980 she studied at the Elementary School of Plastic Arts in Havana, a special school for children where future applicants for the prestigious "San Alejandro National Academy of Fine Arts" were captured, which he subsequently entered from 1980 to 1984. She also studied at the Cuban Institute of Art and Film Industry, ICAIC.

She worked at the Cuban Institute of Art and Film Industry, ICAIC, where she collaborated in more than forty films including short, medium, feature films and television notes as a colorist, line and color artist, designer and producer of credits and masks. Her name appears in the credits of a varied number of the film material made in that institution in the period between 1984 and 1988.

In 1991 she made the design of the current legal three-peso currency of Cuba.

In 1994 in Lima, Peru, she collaborated with nine other Cuban artists, with the “Children of Our Land” foundation, dedicated to the preservation of the aboriginal culture of the Amazon, where she made designs for sponsoring agencies and companies and participated in several collective art exhibitions, which supported and promoted the project. She currently lives and works in the Dominican Republic.

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Ms. Irene Sierra Carreño

1997, Composition with Tortoise and Palm Leaves

2000,  Maja en el trópico

2000, Kikiriké

2001, Pajaro, Cantor

2001, Viaje en la Corteza

2002, Sobremesa

2003, Sombrero de Primavera

2004, Traveséa III

2005, Alacena

2006, Esperando a Amalia

2006, Paisaje jugoso con caballo I

2009, Guitarra floral

2014, Tarde de Mar, Tarde de Cielo

2017, El Caballete

2017, El Patio Trasero

2017, La Medusa Cantarina

2017, La Venus Ecológica

2018, Dan - sones

2018, Tarde de azulejos

2018, Tarde de café

2019, Caballo de Compañía

2019, Desayuno en el bonsái

2019, Isla Circo

2019, La alfombra mágica

2019, La Guitarrera de Vermeer

2019, La Ruta de la Infancia

2019, Lección de canto

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