35 Choco (Eduardo Roca), Untitled, c. 1980. Ink on card stock. 40” x 27

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Eduardo "Choco" Roca Salazar: Portraits of a People. Eleggua Collagraph Lent by Latin Art Space, LLC Eleggua is one of the most important orishas (spiritual beings) in Santería. In the late 18th and 19th centuries, over 500,000 Africans crossed the Middle Passage and landed in Cuba.

Eduardo Roca [CHOCO] El Abrazo (2014) sculpture, bronze 22 x 6 x 4

The image pictured above was painted by Cuban artist Eduardo Roca aka Choco.. What follows are several more artworks with a distinct outsider sensibility in the third of our ongoing series, Re-Imagining Faces. Also by by Cuban artist Eduardo Roca aka Choco — as seen at The Center for Cuban Studies in NYC. The late Ecuadorian artist and activist Oswaldo Guayasamin — as seen at the Madrid.

Eduardo Roca «Choco» EQUILIBRIO HUMANO ArteMorfosis

Poet Victor Casaus has said that Choco enters the new millenium carrying the certainties of Creole beauty, the magic of his culture's roots and the timely interrogations that shape the identity of his beloved island. » Claudia Gomez Haro (1999)

Bizcocho de chocolate negro con cobertura a la naranja Rocío Arroyo

Cuban painter and engraver Eduardo Roca, alias Choco, was awarded the 2017 National Prize for Visual Arts on November 3, for his valuable contribution to the development of visual arts on the island. The artist has a degree in Art History from the University of Havana and has developed an important teaching career in art.

Eduardo Roca /Choco Artcrónica Revista de Artes Visuales Cubanas

EDUARDO ROCA SALAZAR (CHOCO) Pintor, grabador y escultor. Nacido en 1949 en Santiago de Cuba. Graduado de la Escuela de Instructores de Arte, 1963. Graduado de la Escuela Nacional de Arte, 1970. Realizó estudios en la Facultad de Artes y Letras de la Universidad de la Habana. Miembro de la Unión Nacional de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba.

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EDUARDO ROCA SALAZAR (CHOCO) Painter, engraver and sculptor. Born in 1949 in Santiago de Cuba. Graduated from Cuban National Art School 1970. Studied Literature and Art faculty at Havana University. Member of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC) The Experimental Graphic Studio of Havana and The International Association of Art (IAA). PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2016 Collagraph Courses.

Choco (Eduardo Roca) Latin Art Space

Eduardo Roca Salazar. Eduardo Roca Salazar "Choco" graduated from the Art Instructors School in 1965 and from the National School of Art in Havana in 1970. He also studied at the School of Arts and Letters at the University of Havana. He has worked as a professor in Havana and offered courses on engraving in Spain and the United States.

Reimagining Faces, Part III Choco, Oswaldo Guayasamin & more

Santiago de Cuba, 1949) Eduardo Roca Salazar "Choco" graduated from the Art Instructors School in 1965 and from the National School of Art in Havana in 1970. He also studied at the School of Arts and Letters at the University of Havana. He has worked as a professor in Havana and offered courses on engraving in Spain and the United States.

36 Choco (Eduardo Roca), Untitled, 1980. Lithograph, 24/45 Center for

"Choco" Eduardo Roca. Cuba. Biography - Santiago de Cuba, 1949 - Graduated first from the Teachers of Art School in 1963, he continued studies at the National School of Art, where he graduated in 1970, Roca has worked practically with all techniques to become a master in several of them, especially painting, drawing and printing. He also.

Choco (Eduardo Roca Salazar) 6774. Untitled, 2017. Collagraph print

Acerca del artista. Cuban painter and engraver Eduardo Roca, alias Choco, was awarded the 2017 National Prize for Visual Arts on November 3, for his valuable contribution to the development of visual arts on the island. The artist has a degree in Art History from the University of Havana and has developed an important teaching career in art.

Choco (Eduardo Roca) Latin Art Space

Eduardo "Choco" Roca Salazar, simply known as Choco, is a Cuban artist born in 1949 in Santiago de Cuba. He is recognized for his vibrant and colorful paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures that celebrate the African and Caribbean cultures that have influenced Cuban society.

Cuban Art CHOCO EDUARDO ROCA SALAZAR Hand Signed Original Linocut n32

Eduardo Roca Salazar (Choco). Pintor y grabador cubano, cuyo nombre artístico es Choco. Es un destacado artista de la plástica de fama mundial. Miembro de la Unión Nacional de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba (UNEAC), del Taller Experimental de Gráfica de La Habana (TEGH) y de la Asociación Internacional de Artistas Plásticos (AIAP).

Choco (Eduardo Roca Salazar) 3451. "El viejo," 2003. Collagraph print

Read the biography of Eduardo Roca Salazar "CHOCO". Discover interesting facts about Eduardo Roca Salazar "CHOCO" on artnet.

CHOCO (Eduardo Roca) La Siempre Habana

This was perceived in the early days by the great poet Eliseo Diego, who in 1976 wrote, "Eduardo Roca has stopped promising and is already a painter from head to toe. But although his feet are well placed on the ground - in his country - and the head is clear and held on high, it is from the heart that his painting emerges.".

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Exhibitions. Afro-Cuban Artists: A Renaissance. Exhibition Dates: Tuesday, Feb 23, 2016 to Sunday, May 01, 2016. Manuel Mendive and Eduardo "Choco" Roca Salazar are two of the most celebrated Cuban artists working today. Both men benefited from the educational and cultural initiatives instituted by Fidel Castro following the 1959 Cuban.

Choco (Eduardo Roca) Latin Art Space

Choco (Eduardo Roca) Choco was born in the province of Santiago de Cuba. He is a graduate of the Escuela de Instructores de Arte (Art Instructor's School) and the Escuela Nacional de Arte (National Art School). He is a prolific artist and teacher. There have been two crucial moments in Choco´s career. The first, when he was recognized as one.