Achi

Artist

Born in La Habana in Cuba (1941)
Lives and works in Havana in Cuba

Andrés Alberto Aguiar Achi (Archi)

My art tries to recreate the Afro Cuban religion theme from a probably never explored angle. This concern is based on the artistic approach of the most universal of Cuban painters, Wilfredo Lam, which he initiated.
When I take up on the world of beliefs, I am interested in lay emphasis on the religious system, the ethnic systems, both coming from the south east of Nigeria (Calabar Province)
and its descendants, known in Cuban as the "carabalíes".
The Ibibio ethnos is one of the groups I seriously come close to in my art; this is one I take up on with all its magic religious complexities as it is common to all Calabar ethnics.
I take to mean the myth and legend from an artistic point of view and try to make more humane this complex of beliefs, old legends and myths.