A favorite: Agustín Cárdenas -, a Cuban sculptor who was active in the Surrealist movement in Paris. __ The abstract nature of his volumes is almost always counterbalanced by a figurative representation, which is suggested by his chosen titles. Totems, shells, women, couples, horses, doors, stele: Cárdenas worked with an array of highly symbolic subjects wrested from subconscious memory, providing him with the pretext to explore many facets of creation across various different forms. __ His choice of wood as a medium, and the way he works with it, allude to his ancestral origins, referencing primitive sculpture and African statue making.