Cristian Mesa Velazquez - Deriva

Deriva Oil on canvas · 62 x 43 cm · 2026 One figure floats face up underwater, the head near the surface where light filters through vegetation and disintegrates into greens and golds. The body descends diagonally toward the viewer, wrapped in a field of turquoise and green that darkens toward violet at the bottom of the canvas, as if the depth itself were changing temperature. There is no swimming gesture or active stroke: the arm drops loose, facial features dissolve in the fragmented surface light. Cristian Mesa Velázquez works here with a more passive variation of his central theme—the body suspended in water—closer to the surrender of Confidence in Floating, but without the inward solitude of that piece: here the body does not fold in on itself, it yields to the current. The execution matches this idea: the brushwork is looser and more atmospheric than in pieces like Liberty in Blue, with the background resolved almost as fields of color that merge with one another, while the face and torso retain just enough definition to anchor the figure without tipping into photographic detail. The result is an image that is read first by its chromatic temperature and only then by its figuration. Technique: oil on canvas Dimensions: 62 x 43 cm 100% handmade by the artist Includes certificate of authenticity Shipped unstretched (removed from the frame) for maximum safety in transport Her series of submerged swimmers has been the subject of a comparative academic analysis with J. E. Millais and Samantha French, published in August 2026 in Aletheia – A Journal of Literary and Linguistic Studies. Cristian Mesa Velázquez Las Tunas, Cuba (1994). Resides and works in Valencia, Spain. Studies 2013- Middle Level in Plastic Arts. Professional Academy of Plastic Arts, Las Tunas, Cuba. Selected solo/group exhibitions (selection) 2010. Nicolás Guillén Iconographic Salon. UNEAC, Las Tunas, Cuba 2010. Exhibition “Vástagos”. Provincial Centre of Plastic Arts, Las Tunas, Cuba. 2011. Martiano Salon. Sculpture Workshop Gallery, Las Tunas, Cuba. 2011. Exhibition “Lithographs”. UNEAC, Las Tunas, Cuba. 2011. Exhibition “Final Integral Exercise”. Professional Academy of Plastic Arts, Las Tunas, Cuba. 2012. Martiano Salon. Cultural Center Huellas, Las Tunas, Cuba. 2012. Exhibition “La Víspera”. Provincial Centre of Plastic Arts, Las Tunas, Cuba. 2013. Salon “Guernica”. AHS, Las Tunas, Cuba. 2013. Salon “Plastic in April”. Provincial Centre of Plastic Arts, Las Tunas, Cuba. 2013. Collective Expo “Art, a Social Image”. Provincial Centre of Plastic Arts, Las Tunas, Cuba. 2016. First Plastic Arts Salon. Guáimaro Art Gallery, Camagüey, Cuba. 2016. Collective Expo, Aires de Cubanía. Casa del Alba cultural, Havana, Cuba. 2017. III Edition Plastic Arts Salon, Guáimaro, Camagüey, Cuba. 2017. Collective Expo, One in a Hundred, Rita Longa Sculpture Workshop Gallery, Las Tunas, Cuba. 2017. Review of itinerant collective expo, Aires de Cubanía, Iberian American and Caribbean Magazine “Arte por Excelencias” Year VII/NO.32/2017/Quarterly. Page: 18. 2018. Salon “Plastic in April” Provincial Center for Plastic Arts, Las Tunas, Cuba. 2019. Collective Miniature Expo “Painting, Noble Lady of the Spirit” Ciego de Ávila, Cuba. 2019. Collective Expo “Osmosis” AHS, Las Tunas, Cuba. 2020. Tribute Expo to Anette Delgado, Havana, Cuba. 2020 Luxembourg International Arts Fair 2020 2020 City of Light Paris International Fair 2020 2021 Germany International Fair of Plastic Arts 2021 2021 France International Fair of Plastic Arts 2021 Collections Private collections worldwide (France, Italy, Netherlands, China, Germany, United States, Mexico, Spain) among other important collections in galleries and art centers

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