“Just an artist”, is the way Flavio Garciandía defined himself many times.
Each exhibition is printed with his famous statements about what he considers art should be and each work, no matter what year he signs it, puts the viewer’s insight into check and suggests the intertextual reading of the art piece as a social and historical document.
Flavio plays, reproduces and manipulates with all intentionality the styles, authors and artistic or philosophical currents that have most influenced him, he does so without any shame and in automatic reaction, almost as an imminent tacit agreement, he opens the way to a new door of interpretation.
The trained spectator makes an immediate link, the one who starts with a suspicious look and inevitably enters a new universe, guided by satire and insight.
El derecho a gustar de Botero, 2000_ óleo sobre tela, 70 x 70 cm_ col. Reanud Amiel, París. Obra de Flavio Garciandía 
El derecho a copiar o ser original_ 2000_ óleo sobre tela_ 60 x 60 cm. Obra de Flavio Garciandía 
. El derecho a dejarse influir_ 2000_ óleo sobre tela_ 60 x 60 cm. Obra de Flavio Garciandía 
El derecho a banalizarlo todo, 2000_ óleo sobre tela_ 60 x 60 cm. Obra de Flavio Garciandía
Flavio paints and teaches to think.
He is one of the most important figures of the eighties generation in Cuba, a young movement that would later be recognized as the Renaissance of Cuban Art and whose exhibition Volume I would set an indispensable precedent.
In addition, Flavio is also recognized for his important pedagogical work at the Higher Institute of Art.
