“Goya and Velázquez’s guardian angels accompany me”

Cuban painter’s drawings Roberto fairy tale They arrive at the exhibition ‘A story. Grafomanía ‘ at the Cervantes Institute in Madrid. “The guardian angels of Cervantes, Goya and Velázquez “are accompanied, Fabelo said at the inauguration this Wednesday.

The exhibition collects half a hundred works and much of them have references to the literary world of writers such as Gabriel García Márquez or Miguel de Cervantes, as well as other artists such as Goya or Bosco.

Thus, it covers about 10 years of production of the Cuban, from drawings on printed paper to drawings on metal, acrylics on silk or acrylic on resin. Visitors can see it at the headquarters of Cervantes until May 11.

“Fabelo’s drawings are full of literature and their outbursts point to meditation, the deepest of the human already dreamlike as a form of knowledge“explained the director of the Institute, Luis García Montero.

For García Montero, that idea of ​​recovering the dreamlike and the imaginary establishes connection with the work of Cervantes, who through “a good madman like Quijote helped recognize himself as human beings.” “This exhibition forces us to imagine, but does not make us lose the papers, but to meet again with ourselves“He added.

In addition to the aforementioned drawings, the sample welcomes from bones to the meat-for tattoos-, through coffee makers, tickets of a bar, plane bags or metal parts. “Everything serves so that the impulse to draw never ends,” Fabelo has pointed out.

Gabriel García Márquez, present in the exhibition

Throughout his professional career, Fabelo established a great relationship with García Márquez, who was admiring his work. In fact, he received the order for more than 15 years of illustrating the novel ‘Hundred Years of Solitude’ in a special edition.

“Sometimes my works are evocations of characters from literature, but others end out pieces with protagonists that I couldn’t identify myself“The author has revealed.

Precisely, in the drawing ‘Macondianos’ Fabelo winks the García Márquez universe present in ‘Graphomania’. This piece is an evocation of the novel by the Colombian writer in which his “fantastic imagination“It is reflected through anthropomorphic animals or cut heads. In the drawing, an inscription stands out from the rest: ‘Macondo-Guámiro’, the latter being the Cuban city in which Fabelo was born.

Likewise, the exhibition is completed with the work ‘Metamorphosis’, in reference to the Kafkiana work, a sculpture of a rhino as almost two meters high that is illustrated and presides over the entrance to the Exhibition Hall of Cervantes.

“The rhino is a passionate object of many artists and I make the catharsis to use it as canvas“Fabelo explained, which brings this animal to Spain again.