1 / 1, Julio Emilio Neira Milian, La Gran Cojida
2015, Collage, Oil on Canvas, Plaster Baseball Players, Photography.
62 × 43 × 5 in (157.5 × 109.2 × 12.7 cm)
Unique work
La Gran Cojida (The Great Catch) In La Gran Cojida, Cuban artist Julio Emilio Neira Milian reimagines the American Dream as the Cuban Dream, the pursuit of freedom and a life beyond Cuba.
Read more about the workOn view at the gallery in Naples, Florida
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In proportion
La Gran Cojida
Drawn to one scale throughout, beside a figure 5 ft 7 in tall.
The work in depth
La Gran Cojida
La Gran Cojida (The Great Catch)
In La Gran Cojida, Cuban artist Julio Emilio Neira Milian reimagines the American Dream as the Cuban Dream, the pursuit of freedom and a life beyond Cuba.
Created in oil, collage, and three-dimensional baseball players on canvas, the work portrays a mulata Cuban woman through a photographic mask as sensual, elegant, and powerful, with the strength of a Samurai, hoping to "catch" a baseball player as her path to escape and a better future.
The title carries a provocative double meaning: "The Great Catch" refers to winning the coveted baseball player, while in colloquial Spanish it also suggests an extraordinary sexual encounter. Through race, sexuality, humor, and social commentary, Neira Milian explores desire, survival, and aspiration in contemporary Cuba, while honoring the nation's baseball legacy, with four Cuban players inducted into the U.S. National Baseball Hall of Fame.
- Artist
- Julio Emilio Neira Milian
- Condition
- Perfect
- Title
- La Gran Cojida
- Date
- 2015
- Medium
- Collage, Oil on Canvas, Plaster Baseball Players, Photography.
- Dimensions
- 62 × 43 × 5 in (157.5 × 109.2 × 12.7 cm)
- Edition
- Unique work
- Signature
- Hand-signed by artist
- Certificate
- Certificate of authenticity
- Provenance
- Artist
- Exhibited
- Aldo Castillo Gallery
- Shipping
- Crated and shipped by specialists, quoted personally
- Collection
- Available from the gallery in Naples