Mayabeque, Cuba: Yosleibys Fernández Mesa turns her dreams into reality. She places her dexterous brush on the canvas, the stars that she dreamed of reaching in her childhood and the stars that now cast light into her future.
The virtuoso young man from San José de las Lajas, born in the Popular Council of Tapaste, studied in 1980 at the National Academy of Fine Arts “San Alejandro” in Havana City.
In this scenario, he discovered himself a painter, sculptor, ceramist and put his talent to the test in works such as: “Bipersonal”, exhibited at the La Madriguera Gallery and sponsored by the Hermanos Saiz Association of Havana, “De todo un poco” in the Gallery of the Hotel Vedado in Havana City and “Attacked Images” in the Gallery “Vedasto Acosta Febles” in his native land.
For Yosleibys the greatest joy was participating in an exhibition that opened in 2011 in the Lobby of the “Lajero” Cinema Theater. There his countrymen showered him with a warm reception and he transferred his knowledge to the community, with that sense of identity and belonging that exalts him.
The artist takes from the style of Cuban painters. Among his favorites are Wilfredo Lam, Amelia Peláez, Eduardo Avela and Carlos Enríquez; colors, silhouettes and contexts as a starting point to reflect reality in current times or uncertain scenarios that only perception is capable of deciphering.
It often happens then that the muse of his ingenuity leads him to draw a naked girl with branches and feathers on her shoulder as a symbol of dreams, a male image leaning over a train line to suggest the way forward or the misconceived faces of women and men that admit fascinating questions in the face of the unreal.
Since he was a child, the artist was accompanied in his spare time with watercolors, crayons, coloring books and blank sheets that he filled with flowers, flags and clouds to offer them gently to the girls in his classroom. His intuition and instinct for the plastic arts were beating him.
Today Yosleibys Fernández Mesa is studying at the University of Arts of Cuba (ISA by its Spanish initials) with the purpose of perfecting his suitability. He follows in the footsteps of Armando Menocal and Zaida del Río among other Cuban art makers.
He also seeks to contribute to the cultural legacy of our country, through paintings that attest to the insightful amount of him. He is an artist who goes from community art to the universal and who paints his dreams on canvas every day.
