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Jorge Luis Ballart is a Cuban- born artist, graduated from The National Institute of the Arts (ENA) in Havana, Cuba. He currently lives in Ontario, Canada. Ballart has participated in various group and solo exhibitions within Cuba and abroad and a number of his paintings are held in museums, galleries and private collections in Cuba, USA, Canada, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Mexico and Panama.
In 2007, the artist started working on an artistic project based on a meticulous iconographic compilation of everyday objects, in order to refer to reality by means of metaphors and to create a work that is sober and seeks to go beyond the retinal aspects of art, a personal vision seeking to establish a dialogue with the viewer and to polemicize by taking the conceptual meaning of the image as a starting point towards a new vision or dimension of said meaning.
It is a game of art within art and artistic appropriation, used on occasion as a reference for the support of the idea, the primordial part of all works of art, and to create that imprecise sensation of “what has already been seen”, appealing to the cultural memory of each viewer.
It is a work that combines various plastic resources, ranging from figurative depictions, gestures, precise drawing, drip painting, symbolic representation, to conceptual art, and is not created or conceived as traditional or two-dimensional painting but in a sculptural manner, as some of the pieces are watercolors of future sculptures, although the canvas is the predominant medium used.
The main subject is human beings and their social context, their environment, problems, dreams, longings or dissatisfaction's. Faith, nostalgia, the economy, immigration, violence or freedom may be some of the topics that are most frequently addressed. They may be addressed in the same work or in the form of series.
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