Roberto Fabelo (Camagüey, 1950), Cuban painter, draftsman and illustrator, National Prize for Plastic Arts in 2004.

In a world mediated by desire and illusion, Fabelo arrives to materialize our sighs in art. He has a privileged hand for creation and is one of the most versatile and recognized Cuban artists in the world.

He uses the absurd in his works to give way to a playful game of human figures that present an indissoluble relationship with the animal world. Woman and nature, reality and fiction are intertwined with elements of impressionism and surrealism, as well as the most diverse essences of universal art. Fabelo masters the knowledge that makes art a way to quiet internal demons. In a world mediated by ephemeral and changing success, the creator presents a creation unmatched over the years and time.

Unraveling it in its most heterogeneous dimensions is an exercise in liberation, a constant challenge to intelligence, since the muses seem to guide it along different paths. He is also a lover of the female figure and bodily freedom.

Its characters seem to have their own logic that is foreign to the real world. With Roberto Fabelo it is possible to inhabit a completely new scenario, where beauty predominates at times and also the grotesque to make us uncomfortable and take us out of our visual comfort zone. "His images contain references to Dante's Divine Comedy, the magical realism of García Márquez, a touch of Bosh, the line drawing of the Dutch and Flemish masters and the soul of Rembrandt," said Stuart A. Ashman, president and CEO from the MOLAA Museum of Latin American Art.

Quote by Roberto Fabelo: “We must make the path we are traveling better than what we have proposed. We need to emancipate ourselves as humans, as social entities.”