Morales Díaz, Miguel Ramón
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Miguel Ramón Morales Díaz, untitled, 2016, wax crayon, graphite, charcoal, and ballpoint pen on scrap cardboard, 39 x 55 cm, photo: Claudina Garcia, Atelier de numérisation – Ville de Lausanne Collection de l’Art Brut, Lausanne
Author
Morales Díaz, Miguel Ramón,
(1948), Cuba
Biography
Miguel Ramón Morales Díaz relies on the support of people he knows in his old neighbourhood, where he likes to spend his days. He is accustomed to sitting outside and drawing on scrap paper, pieces of used cardboard, fabric or wood with a few coloured pencils or felt-tip pens.
His works are often images of funerals or orgiastic and erotic scenes. But he also creates portraits, imaginary characters, bucolic landscapes and scenes of everyday life. He often emphasises the outlines of figures to separate them from the background, and creates angular and very graphic forms.
Morales Díaz grew up in a very modest family. His dream was to become a doctor, but he received little schooling, as he had to work from an early age to help his parents. He held several jobs, including as a carpenter and a bricklayer. On one occasion, following the death of his mother, he was admitted to a psychiatric hospital. He has lived alone for decades and has never had a family of his own. Morales Díaz is always very good-natured, friendly and willing to talk to anyone who approaches him. He speaks of himself in the first-person plural – we – as if his existence were always shared with someone else.