Alejandro Carballosa - “susurro”

Oil on canvas
Description
In this work I have not painted a face, but the moment when silence sinks. The figure floats in a liquid space where the hair no longer obeys gravity, but the invisible current of water. Each strand dilates, entangles, and rises as if the body itself were dissolving in its most intimate element.
I worked the grayscale with a nearly ritual precision: light does not illuminate from outside, it filters; darkness does not hide, it embraces. The tiny white sparkles are not stars, but fleeting bubbles, echoes of a held breath. The face, barely suggested, remains on that delicate threshold between surface and abyss, between what is offered and what only reveals itself to those who descend calmly.
There is no color because color would be distracting. Here only the texture of the submerged mystery matters, the elegance of what floats weightlessly. This piece does not shout. It whispers from the depths. And only those who cultivate the most refined silence are capable of listening to it.

Alejandro Carballosa, visual artist and Cuban designer residing in Spain, whose career has been marked by the exploration of strength, emotion, and beauty in the animal and human form. His work combines technical realism with a contemporary vision, where color, light, and movement acquire a symbolic and expressive language.
Trained in visual arts and design, he merges the aesthetic sensitivity of classical art with modern resources, creating pieces that balance energy and introspection.
His work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions and is part of private collections in Germany and the United States.
education
School/Academy of Plastic Arts; bachelor in sculpture, painter
university
Licentiate in Scenic Design; ISA, Havana, Cuba, 2023
graduated 2011
workshop
2022. International makeup workshop taught by the Italian master Piero Penisi
exhibitions
2011. Iconographic Salon Nicolás Guillén. UNEAC, Las Tunas. Cuba
2011. Exhibition “Vástagos.” Provincial Center of Plastic Arts, Las Tunas. Cuba.
2012. Martian Salon. Sculpture Workshop Gallery, Las Tunas. Cuba.
2012. Exhibition “Lithographs.” UNEAC, Las Tunas. Cuba.
2012. Exhibition “Final Integral Exercise.” Professional Academy of Plastic Arts, Las Tunas. Cuba.
2013. Martian Salon. Huellas Cultural Center, Las Tunas. Cuba.
2013. Exhibition “La Víspera.” Provincial Center of Plastic Arts, Las Tunas. Cuba.
2014. Salon “Guernica.” AHS, Las Tunas. Cuba.
2014. Salon “Plastic in April.” Provincial Center of Plastic Arts, Las Tunas. Cuba.
2014. Collective exhibition “Art, a Social Image.” Provincial Center of Plastic Arts, Las Tunas. Cuba.
2017. First Salon of Plastic Arts. Guáimaro Art Gallery, Camagüey. Cuba.
2017. Collective exhibition, Aires de Cubanía. Casa del Alba Cultural, Havana. Cuba
2022. Thematic costume runway at ISA University of Arts
2024 private collections in Germany and the United States