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(An interview with the painter, engraver and sculptor Eduardo Roca Salazar, Choco)
Choco - much less known as Eduardo Roca Salazar - is an artist of the national plastic movement, who is part of the emblematic Generation of the 70s and although he has had a long and intense career as a creator, his proposals are characterized by a great freshness and authenticity.
Born in eastern Santiago de Cuba, the Hero City, on October 3, 1949, Choco has gone through several stages and has taken collages to very high aesthetic and conceptual levels, which is why, according to specialists, he is considered "a true master of engraving," a manifestation that he has made his own, has mastered it and has left his very personal mark on it.
Choco was one of the Cubans who participated, last December, in Art Basel Miami 2016, a contemporary art fair attended by more than 250 representative galleries from North and Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa and exhibited works of more than 2,000 artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. For this Cuban artist, last year was "very hectic, exhausting and, at the same time, happy" because he presented exhibitions and lectured in the US states of Missouri, Massachusetts and New York. However, he considers that Art Basel "has become a great pictorial school, a great museum that is assembled and dismantled and a central street, near Miami downtown, and is a very important plastic event."
In an exclusive interview he stressed that in recent years he has dabbled in sculpture: "I have gotten," he says, "in the world of volume and I have been linked to collagraphy, that is, I have made a kind of combination between engraving and sculpture. I consider that I have taken an important step that has to do with the visuality of each piece, with its essence.
This year, close to its end, Choco has just received the Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas 2017 (National Prize for Plastic Arts 2017) from Cuba.