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Miami, July 21 (EFE) .- Colombian artist Dahyana Portilla has just inaugurated an exhibition in Miami with the most famous faces of salsa, works "sponsored" by people and companies melomanas that can also be seen in the Spotify digital music platform.
The sponsors, all the salsa lovers, 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 statement to Efe
More than a dozen large paintings are hanging this Friday on the walls of the WDNA Jazz Gallery in Coral Gables with the smiling faces of Héctor Lavoe, Cheo Feliciano, Roberto Roena , Ray Barreto, Ruben Blades, Tito Puente, Celia Cruz Jhonny Pacheco and Jhonny Ventura, among others.
Its author, who signs his works as a Philo and is part of the craft of an artist, badured Efe today that it is so much the beginning.
"I go by holidays, I know that I need a lot but I tried to start with the older, predecessors" Portilla says about his work, framed in the personal project My latin color. "Faces of Salsa" to complete 20 giant pieces, but not all are now on display.
"My interest in tropical music was cultivated by painting the painting of Arsenio Rodríguez (also known as El Cieguito Maravilloso) for the covers of the trilogy" Arsenio Rodríguez, the prophet of Afro-Cuban music " , from the writer Jairo Grijalba Ruiz in 2015, "says Portilla
" It's at this point that I've discovered the incredible story of tropical music. My Latin color project, "he adds
as in the case of El Cieguito Maravilloso, a photograph is the starting point of portraits of Portilla
" I always try to him to give one's own perspective tiva and release the feelings and emotions that these characters convey, using (in addition) videos and gestures combined, "he says.
When asked about his favorite face, he does not doubt it.
"Roberto Roena They gave their magic by painting them.When I painted (Eddy) Palmieri I dreamed that he was playing my piano (…) I am a pianist frustrated but that night I played with his hands, "he remembers
" They are all great, they take me all in. I feel his anger, his fears, his joy, but Roberto Roena was strange, special, I could say that it's painted, even if you do not believe me.I painted it in four hours, while others can take me out 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, that" there are things that Google does not know " and that she managed to investigate to conclude her work on the Dominican Pacheco, creator in 1968 of the Fania All Stars Orchestra. "Our mission," says the artist with a plural modesty, "is to promote the "Empathy, entertainment, curiosity, critical thinking, conversation and inclusion, activating the space to share our pbadion for Latin musical culture locally and globally. "
Portilla made the platform of Digital music Spotify includes his paintings to present the music of famous salsa artists.
The Colombian is promoted on the Internet by his page with the name of my Latin color and has managed to get people from different countries to sponsor a special job.
"This concept has been successful. We already have twenty or so works sponsored by large and small international companies or individuals, and also for the impact it has caused on the different ways that new generations around the world are connecting and with their cultural roots, "Portilla notes.
His paintings are large format because "they are great, big and majestic.It should make way for the kind of music that makes people happy, dance, who unites the continents, which reflects the joy of a Latino. They deserve it, "he says.
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