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Elizabet Cervino

= Elizabet Cerviño = Elizabet Cerviño (1986) is a Cuban contemporary artist working in a variety of mediums which include: sculpture, video, photography performance, and painting. The reason Cerviño works in so many mediums is because she thinks that the medium should reflect the artwork and concept, and that means that different mediums are appropriate for different ideas. Her main body of work is inspired by Mark Rothko, she is interested in the void, emptiness, and its ability to cleanse and purify nature, thought, and gesture. In her work she attempts to cling to life, avoiding the idea that life is ephemeral, it changes. Cerviño is fascinated with the inevitable and unstoppable deterioration of human existence.

Background and education
Elizabet was born in Manzanillo where she graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Manzanillo in 2005. She then went on to graduate from the University of Arts in Havana, Cuba earning her Masters in 2009. She has completed three residencies in 2013, 2014, and 2015 and has held several solo and group exhibitions, all of which happened in Havana Cuba until 2010 when she widened her influence to places like Scotia, Portugal, Miami, Colombia, New York, Italy, and even Canada as recently as 2014. In 2010 she won the Award from the Henry Monroe Foundation for her work in the project Tengo Frío, and she sold her first work of art in 2008.

Solo Exhibitions
2014 - Landscape to 360º. Villa Manuela Gallery. Havana, Cuba. 2013 - Breath. Institute for the development of visual arts (CDAV). Havana, Cuba. 2012 - Epitaph. Pabellón Cuba Gallery. Havana, Cuba. 2009 - There is no white in the mist. Luz y Oficios Gallery. Havana, Cuba. 2009 - There is a sky in the earth. River of ink. Villa Manuela Gallery. Havana, Cuba. 2009 - Landscape format (Object-Book). University of Arts (ISA). Havana, Cuba. 2009 - Counting stars. Collateral to 10th Havana Biennal. University of Arts (ISA). Havana, Cuba. 2009 - Story of one drop of water that breaks into the seabed. Collateral to 10th Havana Biennal. University of Arts (ISA). Havana, Cuba. 2009 - Inventory. Ludwig Fundation. Havana, Cuba. 2008 - Myth of the cave. Carmelo Gallery. Havana, Cuba. 2005 - Where things have no name. Carretera Central No. 68, Km 95 (Private house). Manzanillo, Cuba. 2004 - Drawing circles. Julio Girona Gallery. Manzanillo, Cuba. 2003 - Finality without final. Julio Girona Gallery. Manzanillo, Cuba.

Group Exhibitions
2014 - RIAP 2014. 18º Édition, Rencontre Internacionale D´Art- Performance. Quebec, Canada.

2014 - By the other side. 6th  Contemporary Cuban Art Salon. Institute for the Development of  Visual Arts (CDAV), Havana, Cuba.

2014 - Salt Water. Centro Hispano Americano de Cuba. Havana, Cuba.

2013 - The accursed share. Norway Embassy. Havana, Cuba.

2013 - For breaking the walls. National Museum of Fine Arts (MNBA). Havana, Cuba.

2013 - Behind the wall. The 8th Floor, Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation. New York, EEUU.

2012 - Escaping with Landscape. Odeón Foundation. Bogotá, Colombia.

2012 - Behind the wall. 11th Havana Biennal. Malecón de La Habana, Cuba.

2012 -  79 Gallery. Collateral to 11th Havana Biennal. Morro-Cabaña. Havana, Cuba.

2012 - Havana open house. Collateral 11th Havana Biennal. Havana, Cuba.

2012 - Zone. Collateral to 11th Havana Biennal. Justiz Marquis old residence. Havana, Cuba.

2012 - Escaping with Landscape. Collateral to 11th Havana Biennal. Luz y Oficios Gallery. Havana, Cuba.

2012 - Crossing. Collateral to 11th Havana Biennal. Raúl Oliva Gallery. Havana, Cuba.

2012 - Now I know how to read. Art in América. Miami, EEUU.

2012 - Variable Sizes. Institute for the development of visual arts (CDAV). Havana, Cuba.

2012 - ¡CUBA! Saltfineart gallery. Los Angeles, EEUU.

2011 - Heresy Metaphor. Pabellón Cuba Gallery. Havana, Cuba.

2011 - It´s not the absence. Pabellón Cuba Gallery. Havana, Cuba.

2011 - Now I know how to read. Text and image in Latinamerican Art. Wifredo Lam Gallery. Havana, Cuba.

2011 - Whirlwind II. Habana Gallery. Havana, Cuba.

2010 - The end of the bullet: One decade of cuban art. Pabellón Cuba Gallery. Havana, Cuba.

2010 - Art 10 Portugal. Lisboa, Portugal.

2010 - Water parable. WASPS artists”studios. Glasgow,  Scotia.

2010 - Monomania. Habana Gallery. Havana, Cuba.

2010 - Fifth Day. Carmelo Church. Havana. Cuba.

2010 - Spore. Pabellón Cuba Gallery. Havana. Cuba.

2009 -  Western Glamour: Homage to Michel Foucault II. Centre Culturel Fonds Saint-Jacques. Fort de France, Martinica.

2009 - Morro is Strong, Who I am? Espacio Aglutinador Gallery. Havana, Cuba.

2009 - Western Glamour: Homage to Michel Foucault II. Collateral to 10th Havana Biennal. Casa de México. Havana, Cuba.

2009 - Provisory home. Habana Gallery. Havana. Cuba.

2009 - The bitch auction. Collateral to 10th Havana Biennal. Espacio Aglutinador Gallery. Havana, Cuba.

2008 -Territorial references. Havana bay,  Cuba.

2008 - Too. Streets 18 y 17, Vedado (Private residence). Havana, Cuba.

2007 -  The harvest. Institute for the Development of  Visual Arts (CDAV). Havana, Cuba.

2007 - Back door. University of Arts (ISA). Havana, Cuba.

2007 - Builded situation. University of Arts (ISA). Havana, Cuba.

2006 - Neither that or that. La Madriguera Gallery. Havana, Cuba.

2006 - 9ª in the Woodwork. University of Arts (ISA). Havana, Cuba.

2005 - Four hand’s fingers. Centro de Arte Gallery. Holguín, Cuba.

2005 - See who have eyes. Popular Gallery. Manzanillo, Cuba.

2004 - Pawn E4. Casa de la Cultura Gallery. Manzanillo, Cuba.

2004 - Now or Never. Private residence. Manzanillo, Cuba.

2004 - 4 of 3 and 5 of 2. Center of Literary Culture “Navarro

Luna”. Manzanillo, Cuba.

Fellowships and residences
2015 - Finalist of the 1th edition of the internacional cuban art award at the category "Young artist of the year", by Farber Foundation. EEUU-Cuba. 2014 - Nominated to II Edition Maretti Award 2014. Cuba-Italy. 2013 - Workshops with the mexican artist Gabriel Orozco, Jibacoa Beach. Havana, Cuba. 2011 - Juan Francisco Elso creation grant. Asociación Hermanos Saíz (AHS). Havana. Cuba. 2010 - Henry Moore Foundation. Project Tengo frío. Glasgow. Scotia. UK.

Career
Critical examinations of her work discover that Cerviño forces herself though the study of the human existance study to become more than alive, being resigned to her fate she can step out into the world free to express herself unbound by her pessimism, in perfect (or false) serenity. She at once decides to balance the agony of exile into nothingness with the freedom brought by the absence."'(Cerviño's) artistic practice, which includes painting, performance, poetry and installations, explores universal themes, such as the creative act itself and the expression -more than the representation- of nature. The artist also borrows elements from different religions: Oriental, those practiced by pre-Columbian civilizations, but also Catholicism, whose sacred numbers are the ones that organize their series, and Judaism, as can be seen in the names of some of their works.'""'Having attended a university in Havana, the Higher Institute of Art (ISA), in the years in which students were invited to dismiss canvas, brushes and chisel, the artist turned away from traditional painting and sculpture. Often, instead of adding matter to the canvas, she removes it with sandpaper, acids, and scratches while silhouetting horizons and landscapes. Her performative work, sometimes gentle like a stroll, sometimes energic like a spear perforating cement — recalls the performance “Palabra lesionada,” which the artist realized in Milan in Palazzina dei Bagni Misteriosi on the occasion of the opening of the exhibition curated by Laura Salas Redondo and conceived by Marina Nissim.'""'Elizabet Cerviño offers us the instant of cleaning the fire as an art of aesthetics against elements. Diminish, remove, reduce, are the components of a new integration of arts that wishes to heal us through colors. The action of ¨cleaning the canvas¨ is sort of monochromatic purification of the senses, the edification of an image that transforms us when contemplating it. We hope the rest of the series, that include smoke, snow and night, brings us in the near future another time of reencountering with the artistic experience as a space of infinite gratitude and reconciliation.'""'In Cerviño’s “Mónadas,” the process is a ritual and rather a means to combine idea and gesture. Most of the featured works, either paintings, performances, verses or installations, far from mimicking nature, are expressions of skies, snows, smokes, and fires. These works are rich in elements drawn from different religions. There is no doubt that they are oriental ones, and the ones practiced by the pre-Columbian American civilizations, but also Catholicism. These sacred numbers are the numbers assigned to her series, and Judaism, as seen in some of her works’ titles.'"