# Exhibition of Cuban Sculptor José Villa Soberón Inaugurated

**Date:** 11/29/2021

The exhibition The Eternal Spiral, by sculptor and National Prize for Plastic Arts recipient José Villa Soberón, was inaugurated on Thursday, November 25 at the Villa Manuela Gallery of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (Uneac).

The exhibition consists of eleven sculptures—in small and medium formats—executed in steel, in which the diverse possibilities of the spiral are recreated.

Villa said that this work reflects another creative area that he has explored for years. "These are abstract works and they revolve around this type of spiral that I usually make. That's what this exhibition at Villa Manuela is about, with the theme of spirals."

José Villa Soberón (Santiago de Cuba, 1950) graduated from the National School of Art in 1971 and from the Academy of Plastic Arts in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in 1976.

For more than forty years he has created important works of medium and large format placed in public spaces in countries such as Cuba, Mexico, Spain, Portugal, Argentina, Chile, Cyprus, Costa Rica, and Canada.

His pieces dedicated to Benny Moré, El Caballero de París, John Lennon, Ernest Hemingway, and Mother Teresa of Calcutta are essential.

Recently, a sculpture of his authorship dedicated to Dr. Eusebio Leal was unveiled.

Villa has received awards such as Third Prize at the Second Sculpture Triennial of El Chaco, Argentina, 1996; Prize from the John Lennon Memorial Tribute Monument Competition, City of Havana, Cuba, 2000; and the National Prize for Plastic Arts of Cuba, in 2008.