Gustavo Díaz Sosa and Sheila Díaz Garcé at the Iturria Gallery

Cuban artists Gustavo Díaz Sosa and Sheila Díaz Garcé inaugurated the July exhibition season at the Iturria Gallery in Cadaqués on July 9 at 7 pm. On the one hand, Gustavo Díaz Sosa (Sauga la Grande, Cuba 1983) presented the exhibition Pasos Perdidos, which he considers a “very personal and poetic perception of the current state in which today's society finds itself”. According to Díaz Sosa, I consider that humanity lives unconsciously surrendered to the fallacy that it imposes on us as “truth” since we were born. My characters flee lost without knowing where and look for exits between the walls that raise the power that reigns ”. In front of the crowd, the artist asks questions of existential types such as: who am I? where do i come from Why do I exist? where am i going ?.

Although he believes that these questions would make us free, he points out "that unfortunately the way we have been programmed takes us away from them and the fact that we can solve them". In his works you can see from the great walls of churches, temples, skyscrapers, etc ... that show the art of man to master the divine laws of nature while being minimized by the majesty of who govern it.

Díaz Sosa's paintings would represent an allegory of who we are before the universe and before the great laws imposed since our birth. Díaz Sosa wants to encourage us to reflect using dramatic environments and compositions of a scenic nature that remind us of the characters in the novels of Kafka, Dostoevsky, etc ...

The second work shown in the gallery is that of Sheila Díaz Garcés (Havana, Cuba, 1987). Sheila’s work is an exploration of her state of consciousness, that is, of the process of inquiry and self-recognition. Her work is shaped by elements of her daily life that she collects with fragments of her memory. They would become time capsules, a kind of containers of moments and sensations that try to perpetuate the perishable. The Cuban painter recreates in her compositions what she describes as "an inner map that changes and recomposes, a mystery that needs to be revealed over and over again."

The artist also investigates the existential issues of being and non-being from the clash of elements she uses. According to Sheila, "nothing is eternal, everything is ephemeral, and all that remains is spirit and consciousness." Through his collages he encourages the discouraged and inert things and encourages what he does not have. This exhibition can be visited until July 28 from Monday to Sunday from 11 am to 2 pm and from 6 pm to 10 pm.