# Eliseo Valdés Erustes **Date of birth:** June 14, 1956 **Categories:** Arts, sculptor, Painter, Society ===BODY=== Sculptor and painter. Devoted to the perfection of the work and exquisite finishing. A knowledgeable person of materials and the way to assemble them to increase their expressive capacity, his work, "Trunk of Penumbra and Permanence", is the most rooted in the idea of survival, solid chest of sound expectations and chromatic frugality." He was born in The City of Havana. He began in 1973 his studies of sculpture at the San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts, graduating in 1977. Subsequently that same year he began his studies in the specialty of sculpture at the Superior Institute of Art (ISA) of Cuba. He has shown his personal work in Cuba and abroad. In addition to being a sculptor, Eliseo is also a draftsman and painter. He possesses large-format sculptural works that have been placed in Cuban cities, as well as in Japan, Spain and Venezuela. He is a member of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC) and currently presides over the sculpture section of the Association of Plastic Artists of UNEAC, member and specialist of the National CODEMA (Advisory Council for the Development of Monumental and Environmental Sculpture); from 1995 to 1998 he was a member of the Ruckelshausen S.A. Plastic Arts Workshop of the BILDERT WELT gallery, Hamburg, Germany and in the years 1985 to 1988 he worked as a specialist at the Cultural Assets Fund. He has taught classes at different levels of artistic education in the country such as the National School of Art, the Elementary Level School 23 and C, among others. His works are found in private collections in different countries: United States of North America, Austria, Spain, Mexico, Japan, Jamaica and Turkey. Collections Ascent 2009 - "LC37" steel sculpture, Bernardo Quetglas Collection, Palmas de Mallorca, Spain. 2009 - "Vertices" steel sculpture, San Pancho Cultural Center Collection, Nayarit. Jalisco. Mexico. 2009 - "Ascent II" stone sculpture, Imanta Group Collection, Nayarit. Jalisco. Mexico. 2008 - "H" steel sculpture, Cuban Museum of Contemporary Art, Vienna, Austria. 2006 - "Spine" steel sculpture, Bernardo Quetglas Collection, Palmas de Mallorca, Spain 2005 - "Dove" Indian pink sandstone, Teatro Mikabo Mirai Kan Collection, Gunma Prefecture, Fujioka, Japan. 2000 – "Dromedary" marble sculpture. Viñas Picazo Collection. Spain. Sculpture Symposiums 2009 - First Monumental Sculpture Symposium San Pancho. San Francisco. Nayarit. Jalisco. Mexico. 2009 - Stone Symposium "Imanta" Puerto Vallarta. Jalisco. Mexico. 1999 - International Sculpture Symposium Form, Sun and Cayo. Cayo Largo del Sur. Cuba. 1985 - Sculpture '85. FUNDARTE. Environmental Museum of Caracas. Venezuela. 1983 - I International Sculpture Symposium Form, Sun and Sea. Varadero, Matanzas. Cuba. Works Placed 2011- "Systems" formed steel sculpture, Kama Sutra Collection, Havana, Cuba. 2010 - "With all the iron" Collective of sculptures. Wilfredo Lam Contemporary Art Center. Havana. Cuba. 2010 - "The Other Reality" National Museum of Fine Arts. Havana. Cuba. 2010 - "Modern Art and Promises of the Flamenco" National Library of Cuba, Reales Alcázares de Sevilla and Caja Granada Cultural Center, Andalucía, Spain. 2009 - "Ascent II". Imanta. Puerto Vallarta. Jalisco. Mexico. 2009 - "Vertices". San Pancho Cultural Center. Bahía de Banderas. Nayarit. Jalisco. Mexico. 2007 - "Tree of the Winds". Venezuela, Edo. Falcón, City of La Vela, Antillean Plaza. 2004 - "Balance" Steel. "Servando Cabrera y Moreno Museum Library". City of Havana, Cuba. 2003 - "Connection X". UCI, University of Informatics Sciences. City of Havana. Cuba. 1999 - "Guardian of the Cayo". International Sculpture Symposium Form, Sun and Cayo. Cayo Largo. Cuba 1998 - "White Symphony". Amadeo Roldán Auditorium Theater. City of Havana. Cuba. 1994 - 95 - "Molecular Composition". AICA Laboratories. Scientific Campus of Havana. Cuba. 1988 - "Pyramid". EXPOCUBA Fairground. City of Havana. Cuba. 1984 - "Variations of the Cube". Victoria de Girón Stadium. Matanzas. Cuba 1984 - "Ascent". René Fraga Park. Matanzas. Cuba 1983 - "Sun Seagull". I International Sculpture Symposium Form, Sun and Sea. Varadero, Matanzas. Cuba