Jesús Nodarse is a young Cuban painter from Sagua la Grande. He graduated from the San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts and is well known for his paintings of voluptuous bodies as a reflection of a side of beauty rarely expressed in society.

Jesús Nodarse was born in the era of image, both cinema and photography. When he was a child he was fascinated about Cuban reality and would watch the human environment as a sequence of stills, to which he would later interpret and transform into art. That is precisely what he does with his paintings: he gives them the exact human sense they require, fills them with life, imagination and absolute creativity.

One of his most recent series: La mujer del pescador (The Fisherman’s Wife ) —exhibited with great success in Casa Lloyd’s Register, in Havana— is a good example of his contemporary concepts. The principal scenery is Havana’s seafront, where his two main characters move. The point is that Nodarse looks reality in a personal way, where atemporality paves the way for sensuality to play the stellar role in every scene of his work (done in oil/canvas and acrylic and pastel/canvas). By means of the movement, the colors and the volume of the bodies, Nodarse shows us the characteristics of our temperament that most stand out, even though he said that with the overweight people he translates the sacred idleness, the self-indulgence and even the “lack of sacrifice.”