Cuban Painter Carlos Guzmán Exhibits in Panama

November 5, 2021

Cuban painter Carlos Guzmán is impressed by the receding of water on the capital's coastline during low tide, which inspired his exhibition 'Where the Sea Retreats', open since late October on a central Panamanian avenue.

The large-format works, in acrylic technique on canvas, reveal the artist's imagination about how to view cancer as a disease that comes and goes, like the tide, he revealed in a conversation with Prensa Latina, at the opening of the exhibition in benefit of Funda Tammy, an organization providing free psychological aid to children with family members with that disease.

My own wife is a breast cancer survivor, he confessed, and explained the surgical process that allowed him to save her life and reintegrate her back into her daily activities.

Under the curation of Helena Carrasco, the exhibition is discreetly integrated into the main exhibition hall of Euromarket, a European-style furniture store in whose exhibition the works form part of the rooms suggested in an exquisite home design.

Art critics have written of Guzmán that he is one of the most representative authors of contemporary Cuban plastic arts and has a highly personal language that denotes an indisputable talent, where limitless imagination stands out, seeming to flow from the world of dreams.

His work is characterized by figures that blend the real and the fantastic, the relationship between man and machine, the communication that in today's world is required from one to the other, which he transfers to canvas with a mystical touch in medieval human images.

The paintings are not mere drawings that express beauty, but rather he strives to carry to images complex codes of philosophical messages where scientific illustration is articulated with fish, mermaids, men, flowers, mythological beings, insects, birds, ancient objects taken from books and wizards.

The inauguration of the exhibition, which will be open throughout November, was attended by Carlos Aguilar, Panamanian minister of Culture; Lidya Margarita González, Cuban ambassador to Panama; diplomat and writer Manuel Orestes Nieto, other personalities from local culture and members of the Cuban community on the Isthmus.