Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
Andrés Lacau has studied painting, sculpture, engraving and drawing at the Academy of Fine Arts "San Alejandro" in Havana. In 1969 I finished high musical studies at the National Conservatoire "Amadeo Roldan" and 1978 I graduated in French philology at the University of Havana.
Established in Spain since 1981, he continues working along the current informalist until 1995. From that year on, his constant search of new expressive capabilities drive him towards bullfighting and its liturgy, beginning a protracted cycle of mythological series (I-IV) inspired on legends Which stem out from those great cultures of the ancient world linked to the bull as a sacrificial animal, the holder of supernatural virtue.
At this moment he is working in a new series In which I envelopes poetry and imagery - aiming to show, in its full strength, the consecration of human Efforts in the face of its existential sudden changes. In the words of the American poet, Louis Bourne "... that these are powerful images, showing the simplicity of a body in the process of disappearing, the memory imprint with unusual models of piety for human life in all its precariousness... "
His works have been displayed in Spain, the United States, Brazil, etc..
