Cuban-American artist Aaron Gilbert paints what he terms “symbolic and psychological narratives”. Featured in the latest issue of Elephant, in a story dedicated to intimacy in painting, Gilbert’s evocative works depict what is closest to him: “domestic settings and people, scenes inspired by his own life”. But, the story posits, they are also imbued with a spiritual intimacy—that of the painterly gesture. “The elongated feet and fingers of Gilbert’s figures simultaneously suggest touch and what lingers after it, the true nature of intimacy: the intangible; memories; people who have passed away; a limb that is now missing; spirits. In Gilbert’s paintings, life and death do their own dance.” See the full feature in Issue 45.
