De New York a La Habana

about De New York a La Habana

Havana has been throughout time, a reason for dreams and songs for poets and painters, musicians and writers.

Among its most liked nicknames is the "city of columns", given by Alejo Carpentier in his 1964 novel of the same name. In each canvas, I want to show Havana as a famous woman, a woman of means, a brash woman, an actress, a recognized personality with flair, fame, and legend, full of beauty and sensuality for the rest of the country she presides over, and also for the rest of the world. The relevant smile offers friendship, closeness, charm, and visuality. Its brilliant color and youth refer us to retouching, makeup perhaps alluding to the restoration projects carried out by the Office of the City Historian, headed by Dr. Eusebio Leal Spengler. In turn, I resort to plastic effects extrapolated from the graph. The design of the poster and its peculiar synthetic and diaphanous way of image composition, the symbolism loaded with meanings that promote, attract, call the viewer, communicate an underlying intention in each work, perhaps even a double aesthetic functionality. To fill the spiritual satisfaction that artistic contemplation causes, I propose as titles of each work, songs by Cuban creators who have praised their city, (such as: Liuba Maria Hevia, Omara Portuondo, Elena Burke, among many others) and who in turn, each of the paintings is the inspiration for each musical theme it represents. My main objective in this personal exhibition is to also recreate a space where the spectator-consumer identifies and feels identified, as a citizen (although he does not belong to it) in addition to creating his own environment and reflecting every corner of Havana, disseminating this homage to my City, being the main message, susceptible to dissimilar levels and nuances of reading and interpretation.