LÁZARO SAAVEDRA (b. 1964)
From the series Metamorphosis
(a) Que feliz me siento
(b) Cuando llegaba a mi casa
(c) Mesa de comer
(d) ¿Me oiste, comemierda?
(e) Voy a crear una obra
(f) Hágalo con arte
(g) Antes de inaugurar El Objeto Esculturado
(h) Reconstrucción de la Ciudad de Pioneros
(i) ¿Qué harán tantas avispas?
(j) Qué fresco, que silencio
(k) Un ataque de asma
(l) Esto que hago puede ser arte
signed and dated 'Lázaro Saavedra, 1992' (lower right, each)
oil on cardboard
(a) 9¹⁄₈ x 15³⁄₄ in. (23.2 x 40 cm.)
(b) 10.1/5 x 13 in. (25.9 x 33.2 cm.)
(c)17³⁄₄ x 11³⁄₄ in. (44.8 x 29.5 cm.)
(d) 11¹⁄₂ x 17³⁄₄ in. (29.2 x 44.7 cm.)
(e) 11.2/5 x 17³⁄₄ in. (29.1 x 44.7 cm.)
(f) 11.2/5 x 17.2/5 in. (28.9 x 44.1 cm.)
(g) 11.2/5 x 17³⁄₄ in. (29.1 x 44.9 cm.)
(h) 11.2/5 x 17³⁄₄ in. (29.1 x 44.9 cm.)
(i) 11³⁄₄ x 17³⁄₄ in. (29.6 x 44.9 cm.)
(j) 11¹⁄₂ x 17³⁄₄ in. (29.2 x 44.7 cm.)
(k) 11¹⁄₂ x 17¹⁄₂ in. (29.1 x 44.5 cm.)
(l) 11¹⁄₈ x 17³⁄₄ in. (28.4 x 44.6 cm.)
overall dimensions variable when installed
Painted in 1992.

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner.

R. Weiss, To and From Utopia In The New Cuban Art, 2011, pp. 146-147 (illustrated in color).
O. Gattorno, "Radiography: Saavedra after Kermode," Artecubano, No. 1, 2015, p. 27 (detail, illustrated in color).
L. Hernández "VIDEO: Lázaro Saavedra: 'In the 80´s, Artists Believed in a Future,'" THE ARCHIVE Cuban Art News, January 2015, (detail, illustrated in color). Accessed on 01/16/24: https://cubanartnewsarchive.org/2015/01/20/video-lazaro-saavedra-in-the-80s-artists-believed-in-a-future/
D. Ojeda, "I Shall Be Several—Cuban Socially Engaged Art Projects as 'Author Pedagogies,'" Studies in Art Education, 2019, Vol. 60, No. 3, f. 4, p. 193 (detail, illustrated in color).
B. Solórzano, "The Construction Mystique: The Revolution as Building Site in Contemporary Art from Cuba," Art Journal, Winter 2022, Vol. 81, No. 4, p. 97 (detail, illustrated in color).