Flavio Garciandía is one of Cuba's most influential contemporary artists and a key figure in the development of conceptual practices in Latin America. He played a central role in the dynamic Cuban art scene of the late 1970s and 1980s and, in 1984, was one of the founding members of the Havana Biennial.

Garciandía's painting establishes a profound dialogue with his native Cuba. Through the convergence of diverse postmodern languages, his work reflects the island's culture as a space of overlapping references and hybrid influences. In a critical relationship with the history of modern art, his vibrant compositions traverse stylistic territories ranging from cubism to conceptualism and abstract expressionism.

The resulting artistic language - playful, but rigorously self-conscious - is one that the artist has described, with irony, as New Tropical Abstraction, an ironic nod to the meteorological term «tropical depression,» which evokes both the climatic phenomena and emotional atmospheres of the Caribbean.