Ernesto Benitez: Conjugating Pop
By: Toni Piñera
A piece of pottery, any stone with the mark of an ornament, or a vestige of an ancient civilization, can be the object of a true cult by modern man. And if he is an artist, he questions the past as he was never questioned, in an effort to know better our roots, to know better where we came from? The current work of the young painter, draftsman and engraver Ernesto Benítez (Havana, 1971), which he recently exhibited at the Wifredo Lam Gallery…