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Eduardo Roca Salazar (Choco)

Choco (short for Chocolate, his nickname) was born on the 13th of October in the province of Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. He studied at the Escuela de Instructores de Arte and the Escuela Nacional de Arte and he pursued postgraduate studies at the Facultad de Artes y Letras of the Universidad de La Habana.
He is a member of the Unión Nacional de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba (UNEAC), the Taller Experimental de Gráfica in Havana and the Asociación Internacional de Artes Plásticos (AIAP). He has had a number of one-man shows since 1976 in Cuba and in Spain, Mexico, Colombia, Sweden and Japan. He has also taken part in numerous group shows nationally and internationally. They include prestigious gallery shows and Biennials in Spain, Mexico, Puerto Rico, India, Chile, Canada, Vietnam, Russia, Denmark, Sweden, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Italy and the United States.

In addition to winning a number of prizes and awards, his work can be found in Museum collections in Cuba, Mexico, Spain, Japan and the United States. Choco is one of the island’s most distinguished printmakers and a national treasure. He utilizes a particular technique that he invented himself. Of his work one critic writes, “Eduardo Roca is one of those people who creates riches from a very rare personal harmony with their profession. His pictures, in the main tending towards symmetry and visual peace, possess inner rhythm and astute dynamism, producing complex effects whilst dealing with simple matters”
His current work is intense with color, with traditional elements done in a modern style. His work seems to be structured by three distinct elements: strong texture, strange atmospheres and a personal interlacing of spatial abstraction with silhouettes. His subjects sometimes are non-defined which open up a range of potential interpretations.

 ARTIST’S CURRICULUM VITAE
PRESS
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Untitled I
Collagraph 13/13
9” x 7”
$700

Untitled II
Collagraph A/P
11.5” x 8”
SOLD
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Pez Rojo
Collagraph 2/9
10” x 7”
$700
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Torso
Collagraph (Artist’s Proof)
10” x 12”
$800
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Untitled V
Collagraph (Artist’s Proof)
10” x 7”
$350
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Untitled VI
Collagraph (Artist’s Proof)
12” x 8.5”
$600

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