Book Release: Ofill Echevarria's El Mundo de los Vivos | The Real World (Un-Gyve Press)

A thematic monograph of the work of Cuban-American realist painter and multimedia artist, Ofill Echevarria, exploring urban life -- still and in motion.

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Oct 21, 2013, 08:57 ET

BOSTON, Oct. 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Unveiled in Mexico City with the support of Galeria Alfredo Ginocchio and the exhibit "Momentum," the work has now launched in the United States with the coinciding solo exhibition "The Real World," new large scale oil paintings from Ofill and a selection of his moving pictures, at the Carriage House Center for the Arts, sponsored by the Cuban Cultural Center and the Gabarron Foundation, New York City.

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Book Release: Ofill Echevarria's El Mundo de los Vivos | The Real World (Un-Gyve Press). Detail of "EL MUNDO DE LOS VIVOS/THE REAL WORLD" 2001 oil on canvas 49" x 71" as it appears on the book cover. A thematic monograph of the work of Cuban-American realist painter and multimedia artist, Ofill Echevarria, exploring urban life -- still and in motion. The 125 page clothbound hardcover with text contributed by Carol Damian, Emilio Garcia Montiel and Alejandro Robles, translated by Marilu Menendez is now available online: ISBN: 978-0-9829198-1-1. (PRNewsFoto/Un-Gyve Limited) (PRNewsFoto/UN-GYVE LIMITED)

The 125 page clothbound hardcover with text contributed by Carol Damian, Emilio Garcia Montiel and Alejandro Robles, translated by Marilu Menendez is now available online: ISBN: 978-0-9829198-1-1.

"His art speaks for itself ... has a language, emotional language, a visual language, a depth to it, that once you become familiar with it, it's hard to see the world without its influence ... he has been able to develop this language that, once you become familiar with, you'll never see the world the same way ... I find myself trying to look at crowds and trying to look at anonymous crowds through the eyes of Ofill, through the eyes of his work ... you try to see these situations, and these moments in time, and they mean something completely different; and if it wasn't for his language, if it wasn't for his creativity, I would have never been able to, perhaps, see those moments in that way ... ."

- Jorge Moya, Cuba Art NY

This first book of Cuban American artist Ofill Echevarria (La Habana, 1972) is presented in collaboration with Un-Gyve Limited. Debuting as a member of Grupo Arte Calle in 1988, a graduate of la Academia San Alejandro, Ofill Echevarria has since exhibited his work in galleries and museums internationally. He lives and works in New York City, the urban reality of which is vividly depicted in EL MUNDO DE LOS VIVOS | THE REAL WORLD book (Un-Gyve Press) and touring exhibition.

For further information, contact Un-Gyve Limited.

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