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Agustin Fernandez Among the most cosmopolitan artists to emerge from Cubas final vanguardia generation Agustin Fernandez 19282006 ranks as one of Surrealisms most discerning latterday interpreters. Fernandez cultivated an idiosyncratic visual language distilled through the erotics of desire and vulnerability provocatively ratcheted up through contact first with the postwar Surrealist circle in Paris and starting in 1972 with the gritty counterculture of downtown New York. The trajectory of his career from the lyrical exuberance of his early work in preRevolutionary Havana to the coolly sadistic armored plates of later years suggests a rich assimilation of the artists Cuban inheritance and identity with the conceptual sophistication of the contemporary art world. Working betwixt and between more familiar currents of Latin American abstraction and nationalist paradigms Fernandez charted a sui generis course and his oeuvre speaks subtly both to the condition of exile and to the canny perseverance of Surrealist tropes into the postmodern landscape.