Re-acciones: David Beltrán’s Solo Exhibition at Artis 718

Artis 718 Gallery, part of the Cuban Fund for Cultural Assets, will open Re-acciones, the latest solo exhibition by renowned Cuban artist David Beltrán, on Thursday, February 13.

With this collection, Beltrán explores the material medium and traditional methods of painting, challenging conventional boundaries and pushing the limits of pictorial art. His work is marked by a relentless search for new expressive pathways, according to a statement from the Cuban Fund for Cultural Assets on Facebook.

The exhibition brings together a series of pieces in which the artist experiments with various techniques and concepts. In his stratigraphic paintings, Beltrán adopts an archaeological approach, creating new works from macro photographs of details taken from museum collections in Cuba and abroad.

Another standout series, burned paintings, explores the shapes and silhouettes produced by smoke and its decomposition. The exhibition also features abstract forms created using cords instead of brushes, as well as ink-based compositions submerged in water and accompanied by musical instrument sounds, the press release adds.

Re-acciones represents a shift toward new ways of understanding and practicing painting. In these works, image, gesture, and matter intertwine in a process of continuous transformation and reinterpretation.

Each piece functions as a node within a broader system where painting transcends its materiality to become a cognitive and emotional strategy. The exhibition invites viewers to question established norms, challenge certainties, and reconsider what has been naturalized.

More than just a collection of artworks, Re-acciones is an invitation to rethink painting as a space for inquiry and dialogue.

Translated by Luis E. Amador Dominguez