Josignacio (b. José Ignacio Sánchez-Rius, in Havana, Cuba, on October 24, 1963) is a Cuban artist, who first emerged in the controversial, "La Generacion de los 80s." The 80s generation of contemporary Cuban art also referred to as New Cuban Art. This cultural decade in Cuba contrasted a country in transition, that influenced artistic debates both at home and abroad, began their collaboration with “Volume 1" - a commitment to non-government mandated artistic expression. They included Rubén Torres Llorca, José Bedia Valdés, Ricardo Rodriguez Brey, Juan Francisco Elso, Rogelio López Marín (Gory), Gustavo Pérez Monzón, José Manuel Fors, Leandro Soto Ortiz, Israel León, Tomás Sánchez and Carlos Alfonzo. In the second half of the decade, other artistic groups were formed, including 4 x 4, Grupo Hexágono, Arte Calle, Grupo Provisional, the duet René Francisco Rodríguez and Eduardo Ponjuán González and ABTV. Grupo Puré, another new wave of young artists, graduates of the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA). included Ana Albertina Delgado Álvarez, Adriano Buergo, Ciro Quintana. In 1984, Josignacio created "Plastic Paint Medium" by mixing epoxy resins with oil colors and other pigments, resulting in a hard, shiny, 3D finish, his identifiable style. Biography In 1984, he was commissioned to work as a painting assistant to Martinez Anay and Andres Ugalde to paint a mural for the Sociedad de Educación Patriótico-Militar (SEPMI) (the Military Patriotic Educational Society), the Cuban version of the Boy Scouts. In 1988, Josignacio, a member of the "Asociación Hermanos Saíz", was commissioned by their directives to design a float for the Havana Carnival 1988. As soon as he finished the design, he presented it to the commission. They cancelled his participation arguing that they needed to give the float design to another Cuban painter, Manuel Mendive. The reason was that in Miami, one of Mendive's paintings titled El Pavo Real had been burned by an anti-Castro militant. On May 10, 1989, with no explanation, all of Josignacio's planned shows at Auditorio Nacional, (National Auditorium), and Los Talleres de Coyoacán, Mexico City were cancelled by orders of the Cuban embassy in Mexico City. Influences After 1960, Cuban abstract art was scarce or considerably silenced. The group coalesced around Galería Color-Luz, which was started just after Ms. Soldevilla returned from several years in Paris as Cuba's cultural attaché. Her partner in the effort, Pedro de Oraá, an artist, poet and art critic, born in 1931, wrote a short