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Clemente Segrera was born in Ciego de Ávila, Cuba, in 1951. He is a self-taught artist who has spent many hours studying the great painters, and who possesses an inborn talent for painting.. Clemente Segrera feels an enormous admiration for artists such as Mondrian, Paul Klee and Dalí. The Cuban artist defines his work as a stream of African blood which attempts to capture the colors of Africa in a search for its roots, and adds: "I consider myself as a body which dead artists visit and utilize in order to paint". The painting of Clemente Segrera has passed through different stages: first of all landscape painting, which he soon abandoned to pass through the abstract and, later, surrealism. Segrera has shown his paintings at the exhibitions hall of CEPAL and the United Nations in Chile, among others, and has his own gallery in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. His work attracts attention due to the plasticity of its vivid colors, combined with the forms and subject
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