Gina Pellón (December 26, 1926 – March 27, 2014) was a
Cuba
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n painter who lived in
France
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. She was known for her abstract expressive paintings in strong colours, usually depicting women.
She also wrote collections of poems.
Life
Born in
Cumanayagua,
Las Villas
Las Villas is a natural region and ''comarca'' in Andalusia, southern Spain. It is located in the mountainous area at the eastern end of Jaén Province. The main town is Villacarrillo.
Together with the Sierra de Cazorla and Sierra de Segura ...
she graduated from the
Academy of San Alejandro in 1954, and taught at the Velado Polytechnic Institute, until 1957.
In 1959, she studied in France, and overstayed her visa,
fleeing from the Cuban dictatorship
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of Fidel Castro, and in 1960 she made her first solo exhibition in Luzern, Switzerland. Throughout her career, she received several awards such as, the Medal of the City of Cholet (France, 1961), Order of Arts and Letters (France, 1978), and the Cintas Foundation
Oscar Benjamin Cintas y Rodriguez, (31 Mar 1887 in Sagua la Grande, Cuba – 11 May 1957 in New York City, N.Y.) was a prominent sugar and railroad magnate who served as Cuba's ambassador to the United States from 1932 until 1934.
Career
He ...
Fellowship (New York, 1978), among others. Her work has been exhibited in several solo and group exhibitions at galleries and museums in Venice, Miami, Silkeborg (Denmark), Paris, Copenhagen, Nantes, Amsterdam, Toulouse, Trodheim (Norway), Caracas, and Lausanne (Switzerland), among other cities. Gina Pellón work can be found in many private collections around the world, and institutions such as the Kendall Art Center / The Rodriguez Collection, Miami, Florida.
She lived in Paris
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Literature
*Gina Pellon: Peintures 1965-1999, Edizioni Ae dell'aurora, Verona, Italia, 1999 / M. Wheatley, Marie Claire Anthonioz.
*Gina Pellon, Galerie Moderne, 2001, Silkeborg, Denmark.
*Gina Pellon, Galerie Moderne, 2006, Silkeborg, Denmark.
*Navarrete, William: Visión Crítica de Gina Pellón, Aduana Vieja, Valencia, 2007.
*Navarrete, William. (Ed.) “Insulas al pairo : poesía cubana contemporánea en París”, Gina Pellón, Aduana Vieja, Cádiz, 2004.
*Navarrete, William. (Ed.) “Vendedor de olvidos”, Gina Pellón., Editorial Aduana Vieja, Cádiz, 2005.
*Pellón, Gina. “Rétrospective”, Musées de la ville de Niort, Niort, 1999.
*Pellón, Gina. “Cuando los pájaros duermen” Editorial Cernuda, Miami, Fla., 1985.
*Ballate, Henry. "Dressed of Waters: The monumental proportions of a little piece", Rodriguez Collection, Miami, Florida, 2020.
References
External links
images of Gina Pellón's paintings
on Cernuda Arte
images of Gina Pellón's paintings
on ARTnet
Gina Pellón in The Rodríguez Collection
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1926 births
2014 deaths
People from Cumanayagua
Cuban contemporary artists
Abstract painters
Cuban women painters
Cuban women poets
Exiles of the Cuban Revolution in France
20th-century Cuban painters
21st-century Cuban painters
20th-century Cuban women artists
21st-century Cuban women artists
20th-century Cuban poets
20th-century Cuban women writers