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I was Born Kind of Blues

I was Born kind of blues is a referential metaphor to the Kind of Blue CD kind of Blue by Jazz musician Miles Davis, which transmits feelings of a very diverse nature and states of mind in a kind of ¨ Blues-Jazz¨ mixture. The title is an associative appropriation of two different media which are ¨playing¨ with the same emotions. This series is the progression of two previous ones: ¨ VISIONS¨ and ¨ THE WAY BEYOND¨, where I had and still have the purpose of being part of the speech instead being the speaker. Self-reference is a justification that keep me inside the phenomena I am talking about, a way of watching myself on a mirror instead of pointing into another. I want to push out a sensorial discharge of the transformation you pass by in your life, using a body as an instrument, the body as the main protagonist of our existence, it suffers, loves, grows, falls apart. This is a body of work with an apparently peaceful spirit and visually romantic, but it has a deep charge of loneliness, it is a visual paradox where the fact that you are quietly sharing very close portions of space with others does not mean you are emotionally in plenitude, it is just a ¨ shelter¨ to feel yourself protected. I am talking about my own conflicts and other’s. I’ve kept an interest in manipulating light, including zones of darkness, shadow (as zones of silence), where you whisper to hide your real feelings. It pretends to be piece of a non written diary of people around me, society and myself as part of it.

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Metamorphosi2004_small
Misundertood2005_small
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Underprotection2004_small
Underpressure2004_small
Silence2006_small
Dontsaywhatisaw2004_small
Tolerance2004_small
Untitled2007_small
Sacredtears2006_small
Agony2005_small
Almost2004_small
Lightingmysoul2006_small
Gettingpure2004_small

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Four Women-Nina Simone


Keywords

fine art photography body language self-portrait blues jorge luis Álvarez pupo


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About

Jorge Luis Álvarez Pupo

Havana City, 1970. Lives and Works in São Paulo, Brazil.

Free Lance.

Studies

- Graduated photography at the International Institute for Journalism ¨ José Martí ¨. Havana, Cuba

- MAINE PHOTOGRAPHIC WORKSHOP. Held in Cuba, Taught by some of the most important Photographers from U.S

- Photojournalism Workshops 2002, Americas House, sponsored by the British Council. Professor: Collin Jacobson, editor to Reportage.

Selected solo Exhibitions.

1999- ¨ Havana with Music¨, José Martí Library, Havana, Cuba.

2000- ¨ Roots¨, Africa’s House, Havana, Cuba.

2001- ¨ Reunion¨, Africa’s House, Havana, Cuba.

2002- “Vivencias”, Concha Ferrant Gallery, Cuba.

2002- “Visions”, Fototeca de Cuba.

2003- ¨7 days in Toulouse¨, Toulouse Music Festival, France. (Main Artist)

2005-¨I was born kind of Blues¨. Centre for the development of Visual Arts, Havana, Cuba.

2005- “ Invoke Ogoun”. Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil.

Selected group Exhibitions.

2001- “A winter in Havana”, “ Morro-Cabaña Fortress Gallery”, Havana.

2002- “Rituals”. International Press Centre, Havana, Cuba.

2002- ¨La photographie contemporaine á Cuba¨, FNAC Etoile, Paris, France.

2002-2003: ¨Cuba Today¨, Palm Beach Photographic Centre, Miami.

¨ Cuba Today¨ Cornell Museum of Art and History, Palm Beach. (Photofusion-2003)

2003- ¨ the other side of the Soul¨. Fototeca de Cuba.

2003- ¨ La photographie contemporaine á Cuba¨, FNAC Wilson, Toulouse, France.

2003- ¨ Imágenes Havana¨, Centre for the development of Visual Arts, Cuba.

2003- ¨ Diaspora Cuba¨, International Biennial for photography. Bamako, Mali (Special mention of the jury).

2003- ¨ “Panorama of Cuban Photography” ¨, National Arts Museum, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

2003- ¨ Pulsiones¨, José Martí National Library, 8th Havana Biennial. Cuba.

2004- ¨ Religions of Cuba¨, Patterson Museum, New Jersey, U.S.

2004- ¨ Images entre Historie et Poésie ¨. La collection photographique de la

FNAC . Conciergerie. Paris.

2004- ¨ Crosscurrents¨, Refugium Gallery, Berlin. (European month of photography )

2005- ¨El otro lado del alma¨, Kornhausforum, Bern, Swizerland.

2005- ¨ Diaspora Cuba¨, La Saline Royale, Paris, France

Publications

- Art Fórum.

- Paris Photo Magazine.

- Photo Magazine, France.

-Rézo Afrique magazine.

-Palm Beach Daily News.

- Photovision Magazine.
- Journal La Tercera, Mexico.
- Book Les annés Cuba, L´aube Editions

- Book Trance, Percevalpress. www.percevalpress.com ( included on the Top Ten list in an article on November issue of Art Forum magazine 2004).

- Book Mapas Abiertos: Contemporary Latin American Photography 1992-2002, 

Lunwerg Editions, Barcelona.

- Book El otro Lado del Alma¨, Oehrli editions, Suiza.

Awards

Special mention of the jury at the Vth International Biennial for photography. Bamako, Mali

Collections

Museum of Albertina, Austria; Govinda Gallery, Washington D.C. ; FNAC photographic collection, Paris. Another private collections from United States, Brazil, Austria, France, Italy .

Jorge Luis Álvarez Pupo's current location:
Sao Paulo , Brazil ( AAA )

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