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Laguna y nubes [Lagoon and Clouds]
Laguna y nubes [Lagoon and Clouds]

Laguna y nubes [Lagoon and Clouds]

Primary (Aguada de Pasajeros, Cuba, 1948–)
NationalityCuban, North America
Date1996
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsSight: 75 3/4 × 95 1/4 in. (192.4 × 241.9 cm)
Framed: 79 5/8 × 88 in. (202.2 × 223.5 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Gift of Judy S. and Charles W. Tate, 2019.115
Rights Statement
Collection AreaLatin American Art
Object number2019.115
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Tomás Sánchez is a member of the celebrated 1980s generation of Cuban artists educated in their homeland, but who settled abroad in the 1990s. He has earned acclaim for his mysterious, lush landscape paintings, usually devoid of human beings. Sánchez maintains that his works are primarily guided by his daily practice of meditation: “When I enter a state of meditation, it’s as if I’m in a jungle or a forest… When I begin to feel that there’s a point of inner consciousness, everything goes toward that inner space, that inner river. Everything goes toward that place of quiet, that realm of tranquility within the forest where there is a lake.” This description is extremely apt for Sánchez’s Nubes sobre la laguna, where the eye is drawn to the lake in an eerie clearing in the jungle, right under threatening thunderclouds. The uncanny stillness suggests something is about to happen, but the artist transfers the responsibility for continuing the narrative to the viewer’s own imagination.