Miami/The Cernuda Arte gallery presents Gina Pellón: Centennial (1926-2026)an exhibition dedicated to the centenary of the birth of one of the most unique figures of Cuban exile painting. The exhibition brings together more than twenty paintings, collages and works on paper made between 1970 and 2014, which allow us to explore several decades of the artist’s career, marked by expressionism, gestural freedom and extraordinary chromatic intensity.
Born on December 26, 1926 in the former province of Las Villas, Gina Pellón studied for six years at the San Alejandro Academy and worked as a drawing teacher in Havana. In 1959 he traveled to France to continue his training and decided to remain in that country after Fidel Castro came to power. Paris became the center of her life and an artistic career that led her to exhibit in numerous cities in Europe and America.
In the French capital he interacted with figures of surrealism such as André Breton, Roberto Matta and Wifredo Lam, as well as with artists linked to the CoBrA movement, including Asger Jorn, Karel Appel and Guillaume Corneille. From these encounters, aesthetic affinities emerged that Pellón incorporated into a deeply personal language, where female faces, human figures, and scenes of encounter emerge among spots of vibrant colors and shapes close to abstraction.
Throughout his career he participated in more than fifty individual exhibitions and a hundred group exhibitions. In 1978 she received a scholarship from the Cintas Foundation and was distinguished as a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters of France. She died in Paris in 2014, leaving behind a work that occupies a prominent place in the history of Cuban art produced outside the Island.
The exhibition includes pieces such as Mantilla for silence (2008), three young people (1991), Pedal dream window (1975) and The lady in the blue dress (1989). Cernuda Arte, which preserves and manages the painter’s archive, proposes with this selection an approach to her creative universe and a work in which uprooting never dulled the vitality of the colors.
Visiting hours: Monday to Friday, from 10:30 am to 6:00 pm; Saturdays, from 12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Sundays closed. Free admission.
