Hurricane Irma The Taíno Indians who lived throughout the Caribbean area, painted their daily life in the caves, asking the god “Hurricane or Hurricane” for mercy so that he would not unleash his wrath on their territory. Living on an island with this peculiar climate has made all Cubans adapt to these periods of “bad weather”, which, far from meaning fear, have become a “water festival” for everyone. They act with great recklessness given how serious it can be, on some occasions, to be a victim of the ravages caused by this phenomenon. Now we have greater immediacy, with forecasts and graphic and scientific information, to be able to prepare the stake, but many of the inhabitants of the Hurricane corridor, countries like Puerto Rico; Dominican Republic; Haiti; Cuba and the United States are never aware of the true destructive power that one of these phenomena can have, until it passes, perplexed by the devastation it has left behind. Until now, the effective formula has not been created to be able to defeat him, divert him or destroy him.  That is why what has been present in the life and death of many of those who inhabit these countries is an absolute resignation to the consequences of the threat. It is living with the constant falling to then get up and fall again if it passes through the same place, repeating the same formula to infinity… I don’t know who will leave the corridor in this confrontation… NOT the Hurricane, I fear. When I lived in Cuba, I was one of those who inherited this culture of the storm. Since I was a child, the stinging drops of the downpours accompanied me. I remember when I was 3 years old when the devastating Cyclone “Flora” passed through Camagüey in 1962. The Caridad river overflowed and the water level rose to more than a meter inside the house where I lived, forcing us to take shelter in the dining room of the building from the corner, savoring a can of condensed milk. It was one of the most devastating hurricanes that passed through the Island. Later I witnessed many more that indirectly caught my attention, and forced my interest in the subject and the images from the satellites that I saw daily in the weather forecasts. It was like discovering another way of seeing nature and interpreting the landscape, translating it with a very abstract vision and softening the great contradiction it contains: the beauty of its forms with the drama of its content. Since 1975 I began to interpret it with drawings and engravings that were consolidated in 1985, with my degree thesis, from the Higher Institute of Art, with the object book “Hacia el Huracán”, and later with a series of works and Exhibitions (“ Forecasts”, “Erosion”, “Rust”) that contained the effects caused by this phenomenon, using many objects destroyed or affected by the devastating action. Contrasting the dramatic force in the abstraction and a very realistic treatment of the object; with the intention of recovering or resurrecting the image and essence of the lost object. For more than 25 years now I have not been able to witness, as then, the energetic charge of this phenomenon. I live in Spain, in a climate totally different from that lived in Cuba. I can’t get used to the seasons of the year, to the dryness and the cold, especially to the absence of the sea, which marked me so much in my professional life at that time and which I continue to reflect in my work after such a long time. Now the world news has woken up to Hurricane Irma, which is classified as the biggest Hurricane and one of the most devastating that has passed through the Caribbean. After so long, this fact has made me recover the spirit of my first works, causing me the need to resume its figuration. The viewer could question the use of this theme, due to its drama. My interpretation is deeper than the one that can exist painting a landscape or a portrait: by using the hurricane as a model, I paint its “continent” since part of its content is in the memory that makes us remember the dramatic moments that affected, unexpectedly and without control and whose scar remains on us. With my work, I try to perpetuate the memory that often passes so quickly that we don’t have time to react. It is a tribute to all those who from nothing, or with what little they have left, are capable of recovering and being reborn among the rubble and calamities. It is my monument to RESILIENCE. “932 hpa” 39,4″ x 25,6″ mixed media on canvas. “9-9” 57″ x 35″ mixed media on canvas. “22,8 79,8W” 57″ x35″ mixed media on canvas. “156 mph” 39,4″ x 25,6″ mixed media on canvas. “287 km/h” 39,4″ x 25,6″ mixed media on canvas. “650 km0” 39,4″ x 25,6″ mixed media on canvas. “IRMA” 57″ x 35″ mixed media on canvas. “NW” 39,4″ x 25,6″ mixed media on canvas.

“PERRO LADRADRADOR” 39,3″ x 78,7″ mixed media on canvas. “VERDADERAS INTENCIONES” 39,3″ x 78,7″ mixed media on canvas. “AMENAZA” 39,3″ x 63,7″ mixed media on canvas. DIPTYCH “EN BOCA CERRADA” 78,7″ x 78,7″ mixed media on canvas. “EN BOCA CERRADA” DIPTYCH 1. 39,3″ x 78,7″ mixed media on canvas “EN BOCA CERRADA” DIPTYCH II 39,3″ x 78,7″ mixed media on canvas. TRIPTYCH I “CARA O CRUZ” TRIPTYCH 118″ x 78,7″ mixed media on canvas. TRIPTYCH II “CARA O CRUZ” TRIPTYCH 118″ x 78,7″ mixed media on canvas. TRIPTYCH III “CARA O CRUZ” TRIPTYCH 118″ x 78,7″ mixed media on canvas. TRIPTYCH “CARA O CRUZ” TRIPTYCH 118″ x 78,7″ mixed media on canvas.

DIPTYCH A “UNIÓN SIN FUTURO” Diptych A-39,3″x 78,7″ B- 39,3″ x 63,7″ Mixed media on canvas “ILUSIÓN” 39,3″x 78,7″ Mixed media on canvas “BUSQUEDA” 39,3″x 78,7″ Mixed media on canvas DIPTYCH B “UNIÓN SIN FUTURO” Diptych A-39,3″x 78,7″ B- 39,3″ x 63,7″ Mixed media on canvas “DESDICHA” 39,3″x 78,7″ Mixed media on canvas “PENÉLOPE” 39,3″x 78,7″ Mixed media on canvas

Indispensable jingle of the meadows. There is no better relaxation complement, when you stay looking at the infinite landscape of meadows, mountains, clouds and a sky for a ceiling, than the sound of water accompanied by the constant distant or near replica of cowbells. The field would be silent with the lost ringing, its absence is like closing your eyes and turning off the landscape. BERNAL “GOTA DE ROCÍO” 38″x 38″ “SILENCIO” 38″x 38″ “VEGA DE PAS” 38″x 63,7″ “AUSENCIA” 38″x 38″ “ECO” 38″x 38″ “REFLEJO” 38″x 38″ © 2021 All Rights Reserved. Facebook-f

The Horseshoe, symbol of Luck. In many doors welcoming those who wished us the negative, but the horseshoes diverted their bad intentions. I will never forget the ingenious knocker on the door of my dear grandmother Calila, created by my uncle Mañaño; an old key placed on top of a horseshoe, as if with each claim, good luck was called. “ARCO CON TRIUNFO” 63,7″ X 38″ MIXED MEDIA ON CANVAS “PROYECTO” 57″x 38″ mixed media on canvas “REFLEJO” 57″ x 38″ mixed media on canvas “RECUERDOS” 57″ X 38″ mixed media on canvas “TRIÁNGULO DE LA SUERTE” 57″ x 38″ mixed media on canvas

Girando y girando… Hipnóticamente se prolonga a un infinito inerte, el Husillo no para de girar. Y sin darnos cuenta, su fuerza extrae la esencia de las aceitunas o de las uvas, contenido que solo coincide en la forma de crearlo: el aceite y el vino, como el aceite al vinagre, solo pueden mezclarse por la forma al crearse, no se pueden resistir a la fuerza y el hostigamiento de este utensilio. El Husillo, genial artilugio, inspirador y obra de arte que con la misma fuerza, inspira a muchos artistas. El mas evidente: Brancusi con su “Columna del infinito”, es inevitable no poder escapar de su encantamiento, cada vez que nos encontremos con el aceite o el vino, hallaremos en sus reflejos cristalinos, una danza de giro infinito. bernal “EN FIN” 28,7″ X 21,2″ Mixed media on canvas “DEL FIN” 28,7″ X 21,2″ Mixed media on canvas “CON FIN” 28,7″ X 21,2″ Mixed media on canvas “FUERZA” 28,7″ X 21,2″ Mixed media on canvas “SIN FIN” 28,7″ X 21,2″ Mixed media on canvas