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.Raul Speek - A Cuban in Wales
Raul was born in Guantanamo in 1958 just as the Cuban revolution began. He came to England after being featured in an ARENA documentary ‘Havana’ shot on location in Cuba in 1990. His first solo exhibition here coincided with the transmission of the programme. He was unable at that time to get permission from the Cuban authorities to come to London as he was in political terms an ‘unofficial’ artist. A year later he did obtain permission in time for his next British exhibition ‘A Cuban Portrait’ ‘A Cuban in Wales’ explored the fantasy of a ‘melting-pot’ world - a world of vibrancy and colour, of light and form where rhythm and movement take shape in fluid lines. The drama and temperament that are part of the artist’s Cuban identity are juxtaposed with the reflective, dreamlike quality of Raul’s current home on the Welsh coast.
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