Chary Castro-Marin's imagery is heir to a long tradition in Cuban painting. In the central province of Las Villas, Cuban art struck a balance between forward-moving Modernism and primitivist folk tendencies. The result is a pictorial Barroque that runs parallel to the mainstream, at times intersecting it.
Chary's bucolic is a distillation of modern art through the alembic of the naïf. It portrays the never-never-land of childhood--a country lost and recaptured in the mirror of Art.
Chary's line has a child's certainty and composure. Her colors reveal a worldof dreams.
Across the planet, Cuban art is daily created and destroyed by the social forces of Revolution; while Chary's work is the vison of a single woman who carries a scattered nation in her memory.
Néstor Díaz de Villegas
Art Critic, Los Angeles-Miami
