Gustavo Acosta

Gustavo Acosta (Havana, 1958) is one of the strongest exponents of Latin American pictorial neofiguration since the end of the last century. His first works emerged within what’s known in Cuba as the Eighties Generation. It was that generation whose artistic intelligence flourished in a “honeymoon” with the utopian project of the Revolution, followed by profound disillusionment. After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the hardships of the so-called Special Period, many artists left the country, becoming part of the socio-cultural phenomenon of “diaspora” boldly described by Iván de la Nuez.