Rafael Soriano - Other Worlds Within: A Sixty Year Retrospective March 1, 2011

Cuban-born painter Rafael Soriano is one of the major Latin American artists of his generation. Soriano broke with regional and folkloric themes which once dominated Cuban art in the mid-twenties. Soriano first mastered geometric abstraction as a style in the 1950s, but by the late 1960s, he had defined his signature approach to painting. His work embodies a style best described as Oneiric Luminism by which Soriano combines a purely abstract form of light, form, space and shadow, with an interest in poetic and metaphysical impulses that drive our unconscious minds.