Jorge Camacho (painter)

Jorge R. Camacho Lazo ( born January 5, 1934 in Havana, † March 30, 2011 in Paris) was a Cuban painter of surrealism.

Life and work

End of the 1940s Camacho met about his friendship with the poet Carlos M. Luis surrealism. He dealt with Klee, Miró, Tanguy, and de Chirico. In 1952, he broke off a study to devote himself entirely to painting. One of his sponsors in Havana was René Portocarrero, and he was particularly impressed by an exhibition of Wifredo Lam in the year 1955. 1959, he traveled for a year to Mexico, where he met Rufino Tamayo and Carlos Mérida and friendship with the painter, printmaker and sculptor José Luis Cuevas closed. The two artists also studied intensively the culture of the Maya. Even in 1959, Camacho went to Paris, where he met André Breton in 1961, he joined the circle. Except as a painter and draftsman, he was active in exile in Paris as a sculptor, poet, photographer and esoterics. At exhibitions of his works, he was inspired among others by Daniel Cordier, Oskar Panizza, Raymond Roussel and Matthias rock.