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Colombian artist Dahyana Portilla inaugurated an exhibition in Miami with the most famous faces of salsa, works "sponsored" by people and music companies that we can also see on the Spotify digital music platform. 19659002] Sponsors, all lovers of salsa, have helped her "with materials or even transportation" and in this way the work becomes not only of the artist but "of the community", explains Portilla in a few statements. 19659002] More than a dozen large-scale paintings hang from this Friday on the walls of the WDNA Jazz Gallery in Coral Gables with the smiling faces of Hector Lavoe, Cheo Feliciano, Robert Roena, Ray Barreto, Ruben Blades, Tito Puente, Celia Cruz, Jhonny Pacheco and Jhonny Ventura, among others.
Its author, who signed his works under the name of Philo and is part of the art profession badured that "I go by evenings, I know that I've need a lot but I tried to start with the older, predecessors, "says Portilla about his work, framed in the personal project My Latin color that unintentionally began with" The Faces of Salsa " to complete 20 giant pieces, although not all are exposed now.
"My interest in tropical music was cultivated by painting Arsenio Rodríguez's painting (El Cieguito Maravilloso) for the covers of the trilogy" Arsenio Rodríguez, the prophet of Afro-Cuban music & # 39; 39 ;, from the writer Jairo Grijalba Ruiz in 2015 ", tells Portilla
" It was then that I discovered the incredible story of tropical music and j & rsquo; I began to develop the project My Latin Color, "he adds
Sometimes, as in the case of El Cieguito Maravilloso a photograph is the starting point of portraits of Portil.
"I always try to give her a perspective and give free rein to the feelings and emotions that these characters convey, using (in addition) videos and gestures combined," she says
for his favorite face, he does not doubt it.
"Roberto Roena, although everyone gave their magic by painting them. When I painted (Eddy) Palmieri I dreamed that he was playing my piano (…) I'm a frustrated pianist but that night I played with his hands, "he recalls
" They are all great. them. I feel his anger, his fears, his joy, but Roberto Roena was strange, special, I could say that he painted himself, even if you do not believe me. I painted it in four hours, while others can take me days or two months, like the case of Jhonny Pacheco, "confesses the young Colombian
Portilla, who has been living for some years in South Florida. "There are things that Google does not know" and that she managed to investigate to complete his work on the Dominican Pacheco, creator of the Fania All Stars Orchestra in 1968.
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