532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel is pleased to present "The Burden of Words," the fifth solo exhibition by acclaimed Cuban artist José Ángel Vincench, featuring gold leaf paintings on canvas created between 2018 and 2025. For over three decades, Vincench has defined his practice through four interconnected pillars—context, religion, text, and abstraction—visualizing the complexities, contradictions, and curtailed freedoms of life in Cuba. Abstraction serves as a subversive tool, synthesizing history and engaging ethical dilemmas. His work echoes 1950s Latin American abstract movements, balancing universal dialogue with local critique. In his works, words, history, and power are literally gilded, layered, and contested. These new works test the weight of speech: what we say, what we cannot, and what endures.
There will be an opening reception of this exhibition on September 12, from 17:00-19:00; the artist will be in attendance.

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Where
532 Gallery Jaeckel
Hammerstrasse 121
4057 Basel

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