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 expands, becomes entangled and rises as if the body itself dissolved into its most intimate element.
I worked the grayscale with an almost ritual precision: the light does not illuminate from outside, it filters; darkness does not hide, it embraces. The small white specks are not stars, but fleeting bubbles, echoes of a held breath. The face, barely suggested, remains at that delicate threshold between the surface and the abyss, between what is offered and what is only revealed 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 without weight. This piece does not shout. It whispers from the depths. And only those who cultivate the most refined silence are able to hear it.

Alejandro Carballosa, visual artist and Cuban designer residing in Spain, with a career marked by the exploration of strength, emotion and beauty in the animal and human figure. His work combines technical realism with a contemporary vision, where color, light and movement acquire a symbolic and expressive language.
Formed in visual arts and design, he blends the aesthetic sensibility of classical art with modern resources, creating pieces that balance energy and introspection.
His work has been shown in solo and collective exhibitions, and is part of private collections in Germany and the United States
education
School academy of plastic arts; high school sculptor, painter
university
Lic. in scenic design; ISA, Havana, Cuba, 2023
graduated 2011
workshop
2022. International makeup workshop taught by the Italian master Piero Penisi
exhibitions
2011. Nicolás Guillén Iconographic Salon. UNEAC, Las Tunas. Cuba
2011. Exhibition “Vástagos” / “Offspring.” Provincial Center of Plastic Arts, Las Tunas. Cuba
2012. Martiano Salon. Gallery Workshop of Sculpture, Las Tunas. Cuba
2012. Exhibition “Lithographs.” UNEAC, Las Tunas. Cuba
2012. Exhibition “Final Integral Exercise.” Professional Academy of Plastic Arts, Las Tunas. Cuba
2013. Martiano Salon. Huellas Cultural Center, Las Tunas. Cuba
2013. Exhibition “La Víspera” / “The Eve.” Provincial Center of Plastic Arts, Las Tunas. Cuba
2014. Salon “Guernica.” AHS, Las Tunas. Cuba
2014. Salon “Plastic Art in April.” Provincial Center of Plastic Arts, Las Tunas. Cuba
2014. Collective expo “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 expo, Aires de Cubanía. Casa del Alba cultural, Havana. Cuba
2022. Themed fashion show at ISA University of Arts
2024 private collections in Germany and the United States