Agustin Fernandez

Algus has committed himself to showing forgotten or underappreciated artists, and Fernandez (1928–2006) is no exception. A Cuban artist who sojourned in New York, Paris and San Juan, Puerto Rico, he created paintings and drawings in a style mixing abstraction and Surrealism, with nonobjective forms rendered in an illusionistic manner. The result recalls the sort of ’50s sci-fi paperback illustrations that owed a heavy debt to Yves Tanguy. His work was engrossingly weird enough to attract the attention of director Brian De Palma, who featured one of Fernandez's pieces in his creepy classic Dressed to Kill.