… Eleomar Puente’s art is a transparent metaphor of the ubiquity of power.

From there that his works hint at dangerous zones, nests of omnipresent forces from which one has to escape. The displacements onto other places are characterized by the illusive velocity of the ships and automobiles, the only iconographic elements in these compositions in which the clash between color and space define the drama in the painting…

…The great big city represented in Eleomar’s painting does not seem to be a comforting fate for those who believe to perceive an indication (symbol) of freedom and affluence, much less so for those who are used to define the relations in a community for friendship, courtesy and hospitality. The man in the great city seems doomed to silence, abiding as a witness to the impossibility to communicate, expressing himself visually in most of the paintings of this and past exhibitions… with the iconographic newspaper motif. This serves as wings to a car or a loudspeaker that’s between two figures not too distant from each other. In both situations the objects mission is paradoxical. The enthronement of the modern look over the addressed intensifies the distance between the subjects and makes the written word a swift, superfluous and anodyne message.

Eleomar Puente’s visual address is a mirror of the authorities he describes. Because his ability of articulation is so powerful that it speaks for itself to what’s meaningful in his works, he reserves himself in silence avoiding yet any personalization in his art. Puente has achieved to emphasize about the consequential, an imposition that few artists accept in our time. The triviality that surrounds us has no room in this artist work. He is modern in his appreciation of art and postmodern in his own approach, humor and cynicism… He reaffirms in his work as a human being that battles against the Gulag/confinement, just as Foucault said… In our cities, in our hospitals, in our prisons and in our heads.  Eleomar Puente’s commitment in art is with the individual that looks into the void… looking for shapes that will allow him to journey from one place to the next to be able to reach that winged automobile…