Alfredo Sosabravo

By LatAm ARTE

Alfredo Sosabravo was born on October 25, 1930 in Sagua La Grande, Cuba. He studies at the Arts Academy in San Alejandro, but he is mostly a self-taught person. Beginning in 1958, his oil paintings and his drawings are displayed in a theater in La Havana and he participates to a number of important national exhibitions. A couple of years later, he works as engraver, learning a technique that together with ceramics will define his artistic development since 1965. During his career he received many awards, in Cuba and abroad among which, in 1976, a gold medal at the 34th International Competition for Contemporary Artistic Ceramics in Faenza, Italy. Painter, engraver, designer, ceramist, thanks to his great desire to reach perfection and to his work ethics, Sosabravo is today one of the most important artists and universally well known. His work is characterized by three main original themes: nature, the human being and the machine all drawn together in a complex aesthetic unit. Sosabravo was given the most significant awards in his country: Orden Felix Verela and Premio National De Artes Plasticas, which attest his fundamental contribution to the Cuban cultural scene. His glass sculptures are the result of a very important artistic collaboration with ARS MURANO that began in 1998.