José Bedia
José Bedia, Dueña de las Terrenas, 2017, Acrylic on canvas, 72h x 90w in
José Bedia, Viajero Multiuso, 1998, Acrylic on canvas, 70h x 117.50w in
José Bedia, Lignum Scientia (Árbol del conocimiento), 2019 Acrylic, crayon on canvas 70h x 86w in
José Bedia, Todos por el país hembra, rebelde y caprichoso, 2017, Mixed media on canvas, 114h x 71w in
José Bedia, El Almirante Tocado a Babor, 2011, Acrylic on Canvas, 72h x 103w in.
José Bedia, De Regreso, 2005, Acrylic on canvas, 70h x 115w in
José Bedia, Vínculo en Azul, 2014 Mixed media on Amate paper 48h x 94w in
José Bedia, Having fun on instagram, 2014 Mixed media on amate paper 48h x 94w in
José Bedia Yombe Nkisi Nkonde En Guerre , 2015 Mixed media on canvas 54h x 112w in
José Bedia, Otra gente de la sierra, Mixed media on canvas, 71h x 122w in, 180.34h x 309.88w cm.
José Bedia, Yombe Nkisi Nkonde En Guerre, 2015, Mixed media on canvas, 54h x 112w in, 137.16h x 284.48w cm
Jose Bedia, Figura Gris Recuperando Su Fe, 2012, Mixed media on canvas, 71h x 122w in (Private Collection, Mexico.)
José Bedia, La Tiburona, 2016 Acrylic on canvas, 80 x 70.5 in
José Bedia Rencontre de mon ami Eladio avec de cachalot haïtien , 2017 Mixed media on arches paper 48h x 94w in
José Bedia De tarde en Samaná, 2017 Mixed media on arches paper 48h x 94w in
José Bedia, Naufragios, 2010, Etching on Arches paper, 35h x 45w in, 88.90h x 114.30w cm
José Bedia, Animal Armado, 2019 Xilography, 43.5 h x 67w in
José Bedia, Madre de Guerra, 2019 Xilography 43.5 h x 67w in
About
José Bedia was born on January 13, 1959, in La Havana, Cuba, the city where he grew up and studied in the capital district of Luyanó in the municipality 10 de Octubre. He was a pioneer of the radical transformation of Cuban Art that inaugurated the Exhibition Volumen 1, which Bedia was integral part of. His passion for the primal Amerindians complemented his anthropological studies on Afro-Transatlantic cultures, studying in depth the faith, believes and religion of the “La Regla Kongo” (in which he was initiated in 1983), the “ Regla de Ocha”, and the Leopard Society of Abakuas, among many others.
From an early age he excelled in drawing, comics and illustration, and as a teenager he joined the famous San Alejandro Academy. As a talented student, he developed the formal skills that he has been using during the course of his long and prolific career. A very well known drawing performed in these early years, somehow defined him: A perfectionist academic portrait, with an elongated style, portraying an Amerindian of the primitive tribes of the United States of America. In the portrait, the protagonist, an Indian figure riding a horse while shooting a gun is aiming backwards, as if turning his back towards the viewer (us).