CAMAGÜEY.- The 34th City Hall was inaugurated, from the Alejo Carpentier Universal Art Gallery, under the question: How do I look... how do you look?, as a challenge for the public, and established and new artists, who participate in this occasion, ideal to celebrate the 510th anniversary of the town of Santa María del Puerto del Príncipe from the different gallery spaces of this city.
During the opening, a special tribute was made to the outstanding creator, Nazario Salazar Martínez, for his 63 years of artistic life, to whom this edition of the event is dedicated. The honors materialized with the presentation of a recognition by the directors of Municipal Culture, in the territory, Yevgenis Peña Montenegro, and of the Alejo Carpentier gallery, Armando Gallo Piñeiro.
The exhibition integrates manifestations such as photographs, installations, audiovisuals, oil paintings on canvas, and performance, which explore different perspectives on individuality, society, the nation and the diversity of thought that dominate contemporary discourse, from a perspective inclusive and that seeks constant dialogue with the audience.
“For me this is an opportunity to make my work visible and share in the same place with figures like Nazario Salazar, Agustín Bejarano and Carlos A. Casanova. I consider my work to go hand in hand with the celebration of the town, because it alludes to the years, to the deterioration with dignity, to the validity of the human being and the intimate context that surrounds him,” the young author of Anatomy of time, Ismael Olazábal Báez told Adelante Digital.
As part of the day 's actions, A Plaza for Art was on display in the afternoon, in the Workers' Plaza, with the works of renowned artists from the province, founders of the Cuban Fund for Cultural Assets. They are Salazar Martínez, Carlos Wuambrug Gelabert, Joel Jover Llenderoso, Ileana Sánchez Hing, Oscar Rodríguez Lasseria, Orestes Larios Zaak, Ernesto Giralt Hernández, Osvaldo Rodríguez Petit, René de la Torre Aguilar, Wilfredo Posada Rodríguez, Martha Jiménez Pérez, Roberto Estrada Alonso and as a guest, Maikel Herrera Pacheco.
In the morning, the group exhibition Zooming for a generation was inaugurated, in the transitional room of the San Juan de Dios Museum, with the participation of works by 20 new artists, who are part of the collections of the Ignacio Agramonte Loynaz Provincial Museum of this territory.
The specialist of that institution and in charge of research and curation of the exhibition, Annerys Fernández Mendoza, pointed out how “the most intimate philosophy of the creators is exhibited, from conventional or exploratory perspectives that provide freshness according to their ways of doing things. Their impact on their land and other parts of the world is indisputable, because they are fragments of a reality that complement the map of the visual arts of the city.”
For the next date, the program announces the exhibition, Visceral, by the artist, Oscar Rodríguez Jr., in the Nueva Musa gallery, of the Julio Antonio Mella Provincial Library, and at night, a group exhibition of Camagüey painters, in the República 289 gallery, of the Provincial Center of Plastic Arts.
Translated by Linet Acuña Quilez