Rene Portocarrero
Start painting since early age and at 14, starts in San
Alejandro. Having a strong temperament and unable to adapt to
this apprenticeship, leaves the institution and starts working
on his own. His work was first exhibited in the Salon de Bellas
Artes, in Havana. He was a professor at the Paintings and
Sculptures Free Studies directed by Abela in 1939. Travels
through Haiti, Europe and the US, where he opened an exhibition
in the Julian Levy Gallery, in New York, in 1945. He has worked
on many murals and ceramics.
His works are among the permanent collections of the Museums of
Modern Arts of: Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, New York, San
Francisco; National Gallery in Canada; Bellas Artes, Caracas;
Milwaukee Art Center; Union Panamericana, Washington; Modern
Arts of Paris; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Art Museum,
Indianapolis; Bellas Artes, Montevideo; Bellas Artes, Buenos
Aires; Instituto de Arte Contemporaneo, Lima, Peru; Museo
Nacional, Havana.
He has not stopped painting since his childhood and has never
planned any of his work. He has no idea of what he will work
on, until the brush is about to strike on canvas.