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Al futuro según Ars Magnesium: Relato de la ida por la vuelta [To the Future According to Ars Magnesium: Story of the Journey Through Its Return],
200121st century
26 cm x 17.5 cm (10 1/4 in. x 6 7/8 in.)
Tonel (aka Antonio Eligio Fernández) (Havana, Cuba, 1958 - ) Primary
Object Type:
drawing
Artist Nationality:
Latin America, Cuban
Medium and Support:
Ink, watercolor and collage on paper
Credit Line:
Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Gift of Fran Magee and Gallery 106, 2003
Accession Number:
2003.86.7/7
Tonel’s work fuses comic-book imagery with subtle political and social references. In this work, he tells a fantastic story that jumps from a 17th-century alchemical text to the year 2058. Lenin, Gramsci, and Mayakovski all make appearances, as does the Cuban son band N.G. La Banda. Tonel uses specific Cuban idioms and expressions throughout the text, as though telling the history of the Russian revolution through Cuban popular culture. The narrative also weaves in and out of writing, collage, stamps, banknotes, and other appropriated elements.
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