Jesús 'Bubu' Negrón (b. 1975) lives and works between Barceloneta and San Juan, Puerto Rico

Bubu has this unselfishness, a line that goes through his work... the idea of self-sacrifice that comes from popular legends. What's really interesting is that Bubu is the first person i know who is a natural... something i had never seen. Everyone I've met who knows nothing about art history makes crappy art... except Bubu. He's the first guy I know who really was born for this shit... I'm impressed by that.


Also... he takes certain sociopolitical ideas but at a personal level, a personal analysis. Instead of being macro he sees it at the level of how it affects the person, the individual. He's not interested in actions that spark large-scale collective social movements. He's different... he's one of those still using visual poetry, i mean, his work is not literal in that sense. He's a romantic artist working inside an arid system and uses the language of conceptualism for romantic goals.


- José Lerma

Literature:

Julieta González, "Jesús 'Bubu' Negrón", Flash Art (Nov-Dec., 2004 - pg. 121)

Elvis Fuentes, "Esperanza en señales de humo",El Nuevo Día (Puerto Rico, June 13, 2004 - pg. 30)

Cuauhtemoc Medina, "El Ojo Breve: De Geografias
Tropicales", Reforma (México, May 19, 2003 - pg. 54)

La Promesa, 2003
Barceloneta, PUERTO RICO - DF, MEXICO











Vela Parking Service, 2003
V Bienal del Caribe
Santo Domingo, REPUBLICA DOMINICANA