Valdés, Horacio
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Horacio Valdés, dit El Chino, untitled, 1985, India ink on paper, 12.5 x 17.8 cm, photo : Claudine Garcia, Atelier de numérisation – Ville de Lausanne Collection de l’Art Brut, Lausanne
Author
Valdés, Horacio,
(1912–?), Cuba
Biography
We have no information about the life of Horacio Valdés, known as El Chino, apart from the fact that he was born in San Antonio de los Baños, a town in the province of Artemisa in western Cuba. His drawings, in India ink, depict fantastical creatures made up of a multitude of interlinking zoomorphic forms sometimes arranged symmetrically. The figurative elements that often appear in his works are flowers, birds, fish, imps and mammals.