"My work is personal most of the time, it has to do with moments in my life that mark me, that's why they are serialized and each series is a particular important change, emotional or social," says Alejandro Jurado Morales in an interview with CubaPLUS.
Since childhood, Jurado Morales (Havana, 1986) was interested in painting, participated in contests and at the age of 10 he began studying visual arts in a workshop with professor Jose Perez Olivares. Here he took classes in expressionism, cubism and surrealism, with exercises that combined compositions of Picasso and Roberto Matta, among others, so he developed a different way of seeing and geared his work toward abstraction.
Music plays an important role in his works as a reference, hence we can find hints to song lyrics that, in turn, have to do with his experiences, and he explains: "It is a testament of images and sound, so soundtrack is very important in several of the personal exhibitions I've done; I have also taken a list of songs from the paintings that make it up. If I use the landscape to land that state or moments in an ambiguous place, then the music I put on is to give it a soundtrack. Beware, however, that I don’t always share all the information of the piece, that is, it is not that I display the work with sound ... the sound is mine. The landscape is not the landscape itself, it is the notion of the landscape, its essence, its concept; it is mental, they are not places that exist although it seems so, they are to fix the state I am trying to paint in time and space. It's that everything is related".
The curators are in charge of organizing and developing the production of an exhibition, establishing a criterion for the selection of pieces and objects that will be part of it. Alejandro has also ventured into that field this year, in the exhibition La construcción del silencio, for the Center for the Development of Visual Arts in Havana.
"That curatorship, he said, was based on my research on painting itself or abstraction, in this case, Cuban, and we tried to join common points of several generations in different stages or different ways of doing it and thinking about it. That's why in this exhibition there were classics as well as national awards, and young emerging artists, but in a deep process of what they are doing".
As a creator, he has presented personal exhibitions in several prestigious spaces in Cuba, and pieces in many other collectives, also in Spain and Mexico.
Styles or a certain formula do not suit him: "I really have a problem with style or the construction of a formula, because an emotional or social change can change the series itself and that includes the way of doing it and thinking about it. While I think I have always painted the same things, such as general themes, landscapes, time, memory, emotions, stories, among others, the form and the angle from which the composition is seen varies a lot. For example, I have been focusing for almost two years now on a series called Campo de color (Colorfield), the name of a 1960s art movement in the United States; in my case, I create bands of light from different times of the day, often starting from a horizon to delimit land and sky".
As a young artist, he advises work and commitment: "I believe in commitment to what I am doing and what I want to do, I believe in effort and tenacity in turning a no into a yes. In working hard and pushing yourself to the limit. Work, but from the inside out, with all your senses in what you do".
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