Danco Duportai García in Mexico City
Memory, Miniature Portraits & Contemporary Cuban Art | Conde Contemporary
The young artist living and working in Mexico is expanding, literally. While his entire body of work deals with memory, normally in the form of miniature mementos frozen in time and place, he has begun to paint larger works on the same theme.
Duportai is a graduate of the esteemed La Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes, San Alejandro in Havana. His work has been shown in Havana, Miami, Paris and Los Angeles, as well as in the PAN Museum of Contemporary Art, Naples, Italy.
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The Miniature Portrait Project
“Tokens of Memory : The Miniature Portrait Project” is a work in process. The exhibition will feature a massive collection of diminutive portraits by the young Cuban artist Danco Duportai. His interest in painting in miniature arises from the desire of making each of these works more intimate, he focuses on the smallest detail.
The portrait is the main language of Duportai’s work and with that he seeks to achieve two main goals. One is to capture the personality of the subject in just a few centimeters, and the second is to rescue the miniature portrait from its steady decline since the 19th century.
“The size of the portraits is actually a great equalizer, at once reflecting and removing them from their past…”, said gallerist Stacy Conde, “…their size and medium have democratized the tradition of giving a portrait as a memento, and removed the act from the exclusivity of the cultural elite.”
Each gold framed, oil on canvas portrait included in “Tokens of Memory : The Miniature Portrait Project” series is 8 x 10 cm or 3.15 x 3.9 inches in size and priced at $700, shipping is included. If you would like to participate in the project and commission a portrait, please contact us by clicking the button below.