Julio César Rodríguez Aguilar is a Cuban-born surrealist painter, illustrator and drawing teacher known for creating dreamlike, symbolic works.
Since he was young he was inclined to the arts.
He began his studies at the age of 12, in the vocational school of art in Holguin.
He later continued in a professional school in the city.
After graduating in 1995, he dedicated himself entirely to finding his own true line of art.
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He became and art professor of drawing for six years while participating in multiple personal and collective expositions throughout Cuba, Canada, Spain, China, USA, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Italy and the Dominican Republic.
He now resides in Florida where he continues to create his scenarios and fantasies through painting and drawing.
His work is a mix of figuration and expressionism with and air of surrealism where he projects his vision of the world, nature and man poetically and philosophically.
✍ "I describe my work as a mixture of figuration and expressionism with an air of surrealism, where I project my individuality as a creator poetically and philosophically.
I am interested in the connection between man and nature and everything that connects to both. I recreate this in a symbolic way and convert them into a scene with characters in ambiguous situations.
This sample of my most recent work is a philosophical approach to those formal-poetic visions with which I'm reviewing my life".
✍ "Each work becomes an illusion of alternate reality where I have fun with my unconscious and dialogue with my memories and shared memories, in order to build an illusory present.
In my creative process I have fed endless trends and confluent areas that I have accompanied on this trip inside, and I've been immersed in denouncing unique sensibility and peculiar thought those subjective cues to leave a mark on my passage through this world.
I feel like an installer of realities and my works are connected to each stoking my privacy and every space where I live".
✍ "When I'm painting I feel my mind is opened as a theater stage and my staging begins to establish itself with its own lights and shadows, colors and strokes, and then them going to bed trying to sleep with that huge dark hat is the night.
It is in this process where I feel I still perched at that stage... floating in my paintings.
From that I started to find my identity and prominence through artistic creation, the physical and conceptual relationship between humanity and nature and it became the starting point".
✍ "My work is a recreation symbolic of my personal experiences, the reflection of my life at the same time of my joys and sorrows, my loneliness and thoughts... like nature seasons.
Any of my exhibitions is to present my intimate works from silence, there where struggle with my own angels to break free from everyday life and thus recreate my passage through this world.
My works are the ideal medium for channeling my interiority as creator, are windows that open to the world, so becoming the exact connection between the viewer and the artist... and in the end, both witness the magic".
✍ "When I am creating I feel locked up in a cage with clouds, they help me to hold me on the tightrope of real life and is when I feel the exact balance... the doors of my intellect.
My love for painting holds me, makes me play attached to a brush, is the only time where the magicians savor their perfect trick".
Julio César Rodríguez Aguilar è un pittore, illustratore ed insegnante di disegno Cubano nato a Holguín, Cuba.
È ampiamente riconosciuto per le sue opere d'arte di matrice fortemente surrealista, ricche di elementi mistici, poetici ed allegorici.
Rodríguez Aguilar ha manifestato una forte inclinazione per le arti visive fin da giovanissimo.
Ha iniziato il suo percorso formativo a 12 anni presso la Scuola Vocazionale d'Arte "Raúl Gómez García" a Holguín, per poi diplomarsi nel 1995 alla prestigiosa Accademia Professionale di Arti Visive, specializzandosi in pittura, disegno, fotografia e tessitura artistica.
Dopo aver lavorato come professore di disegno a Cuba, ha esposto i suoi lavori in numerose mostre collettive e personali a livello internazionale (tra cui Canada, Spagna, Cina, Italia e Stati Uniti).
Successivamente è emigrato negli Stati Uniti e si è stabilito a Louisville, Kentucky, dove continua ad operare stabilmente all'interno della comunità artistica locale.
La produzione dell'artista si concentra prevalentemente sulla pittura ad olio su tela, sebbene abbia sperimentato con la scultura, l'incisione e la scenografia teatrale.
Le sue opere trasportano lo spettatore in un mondo onirico e simbolico, concepito come un "dialogo interiore con i propri ricordi e pensieri".
