Artist's Statement

Fermin Castro's art extends from his Caribbean roots, influenced by contemporary master visual artists, connecting primitive African sculptors and modern Latin American artistic expression. His sculptures form a unique dialogue between fantasy and reality. Sculpting in woods from a variety of sources and geographical areas, Castro creates a connection between texture, color and form in his artistic creations, inviting the viewer to transcend the imagination and awaken fantasy, finding harmony between the forms and their significance. His works are inspired by his childhood in Cuba, in which he lived surrounded by the Caribbean Sea. 

Complementary to his sculptures, Castro's paintings navigate an immense field of figurative fantasies, creating and re-creating his own style of polychromatic forms with protuberances, insertions, curvilinear forms and sharp elongations as sources of connections between his memories and a futuristic dream.