Yonier Powery

Meet Yonier

When art goes beyond the limits of the pure technique to establish a deep conceptual speech, the act of creation achieves unexpected dimensions; this is the attribute that characterizes the work of the artist Yonier Powery Serrano (Isle of Pine, Cuba, 1983).

He started his formation at Wilfredo Lam’s Professional Academy of Visual Arts in the island where he was born. Since the very beginning, it was easy to notice his interest on existential matters which is not that common to find in young artists beginning this fascinating adventure. The tutoring of Visual Artist Agustin Villafana played a relevant role in the way to become the artist he is now-a-day.

Yonier has mastered through the exercise of art creation a wide range of techniques. Among them, is the drawing, painting, ceramic and sculpture (in this last aspect using the ‘Readymade’ resource). He had also used to create associations between the physical and spiritual wear and tear of human beings which occur through the daily struggle for survival. The only condition for this artist is the fact each piece of art has to hold a philosophic message related with the complicated circumstances we have had to live.

Owning a noticeable mastery, the artist has been able to explore with the same accuracy, the human body, the portrait, the art of the object and the landscape as well. His poetry when painting sometimes reaches the violent line of expressionism, at other times he seems to play with stains, lines at random, and chiaroscuro. He has had some luck even when trying with abstract figures.

As a matter of destiny, the artist settled down in Grand Cayman in 2010, where he has kept his art alive. Having very close connection to Cayman Islands due to his Caymanian ancestries and through marriage (in which a family is being formed). While being surrounded by the sea, peacefully and calmed or rough and tempestuous at times, it had constituted motivation for this artist to develop a fine affinity toward the marine fauna. Through the use of the man-animal metamorphosis the painter conceives a surrealistic world, full of hallucinating and amazing images, bringing about a new poetic language.

Mr. Powery Serrano has attended and participated in several national and international Art Exhibitions, Visual Arts Salons and other events, being awarded with prizes, distinctions, and honored widely due to his talent and quality as an artist and as a human being.