Felipe Cuchí
Santurce, PR, 1950
Biography Details
Painter, graphic designer, and illustrator. Cuchí attended the School of Visual Arts in New York. For several years he has dedicated himself to freelance graphic design. His art has been chosen for group exhibits, one of them the ICP’s National Selection of Puerto Rican Art in 2001. He was also selected to do a project for the Public Art Project of Puerto Rico, La danza del tren (The Train Dance), for one of the stations of the Urban Train. His work is distinguished by its humor, social satire, and irony, and recently he has increasingly been using repeated elements and more intense and complementary colors in addition to his habitual use of line and drawing, which stems from his experience as a graphic designer.
Artist Statement
My work is a reflection of the graphic language. All my symbolisms, as a whole, have conversations between the lines. The mood between figures communicates a world of secret signs. Weird noises, people chewing lines and hands up give the impression of a visual assault, on texture planes, for pure visual pleasure.
Formation
Education
1968
- The School of Visual Arts, New York, United States
1969
- Special Studies with Jopsepg Kosuth, United States
Exhibitions
Individuales
2006
- Bla, Bla Bla, La Casa del Arte, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2002
- Neurona Morona, Galería Calle Cristo, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2001
- Cama para tanta gente, Galería Calle Cristo, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1987
- Trabajos en papel, Galería MSA, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Colectivas
2008
- Más sabe el diablo…, Galería 356, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2007
- Contexto puertorriqueño: del rococó colonial al arte global, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2004
- Reencuentro con el dibujo, La Casa del Arte, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2003
- Muestra Nacional, Antiguo Arsenal de La Marina Española, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Exposición Inaugural, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Sexta Gran Subasta, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2002
- Quinta Gran Subasta, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2001
- Muestra Nacional, Antiguo Arsenal de La Marina Española, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1998
- Colectiva del Cartel, Germany
- 100 años después, 100 artistas contemporáneos, Antiguo Arsenal de La Marina Española, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1992
- Wetherholt Galleries, Washington DC, United States
- Pequeño Formato, Galería Luiggi Marrozini, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1988
- Museo de Arte e Historia, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Awards, Distinctions and Achievements
2002
- Award. "Neuron Morona" Exhibition of the Year, Commercial Gallery Category, International Association of Art Critics, Puerto Rico Chapter, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Collections
- Cooperativa de Seguros Múltiples de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Museo de Historia, Antropología y Arte, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Bibliography
Newspapers
Alegre Barrios, Mario. “El Bestiario de Felipe Cuchí”. El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR), 30 de agosto de 2001.
Trelles Rafael. “Seductora Sátira Colectiva”. El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR), 2 de diciembre de 2001.
Pérez Ruiz, José A. “Mundos Alternos de Felipe Cuchí”. El Vocero (San Juan, PR), 25 de diciembre de 2001.
Felipe Cuchí. “Angel Estreñido”. Arte al Día (Miami, EU), 31 de octubre de 2002.
Felipe Cuchí. “Veo, Veo”. Arte al Día (Miami, EU), 31 de octubre de 2003.
Pérez, Tatiana. “Bla, Bla, Bla, Cuchí y el torrente de información”. El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR), 23 de abril 2006.