They will present the Somos catalog, by Cuban photographer Roberto Chile

October 4, 2018

The Somos catalog, by Cuban photographer Roberto Chile, will be presented today Wednesday, October 3rd, at 4:00 p.m., at the Dulce María Loynaz Cultural Center, located on 19th Street, corner of E, in El Vedado. The volume brings together the images that made up the homonymous exhibition presented at the beginning of the year at the Collage Habana Gallery of the Cuban Cultural Assets Fund, curated by art critic David Mateo and Chile himself. Researcher Jesús Guanche, along with other scholars whose assessments appear in the catalog, accurately deciphers this proposal: "A very representative part of the rich African legacy in Cuban popular religiosity has been creatively captured by the keen lens of Roberto Chile, who through the expressive capacity of chiaroscuro, dwells on faces, attributes, gestures, or on the colorful altars, rites and dances, to suggest signs alluding to the captured images, where an ephemeral bodily signal, incense or an ablution, evokes for us what preceded and what will come".
This catalog, which compiles one of the most recent creative stages of Roberto Chile's photographic work, has been published by Collage Ediciones, the publishing imprint of the Cuban Cultural Assets Fund.

National Museum of Fine Arts will inaugurate temporary exhibition of masters of contemporary Cuban sculpture

This Friday, October 5th, at 4:00 p.m., The Seduction of Form will be inaugurated in the Building of Cuban Art of the National Museum of Fine Arts, featuring sculptors José Villa Soberón, Tomás Lara Franquis and Rafael Consuegra Ferrer. The assembled collection will display four works by each artist in the Patio galleries, which by their scale impose themselves on the visibility of the space, while representing the imprint of the exhibitors. These are three creators who, beyond their adherence to the figurative or abstract, have been developing expressive lines in which material is subordinated to form, transforms it and launches it to unsuspected levels of suggestion. In The Seduction of Form will house works created for this exhibition and others previously displayed, always within the coherence of the conceptual guidelines that identify José Villa, Tomás Lara and Rafael Consuegra. The collection, by its formal characteristics, invites the viewer to an updated vision of the paths through which sculpture travels within our national art, corresponding with the institutional will to promote the presence of this manifestation among its exhibition projects.

Abel Prieto Jiménez elected President of the José Martí Cultural Society

On the afternoon of Tuesday, October 2nd, at the Center for Martí Studies in Havana, a meeting of the National Board of the José Martí Cultural Society (SCJM) was held, presided over by Víctor Gaute, member of the secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and Alpidio Alonso Grau, Minister of Culture. At this meeting, the admission of new members to the collective body was ratified and the calendar for the balance assemblies of the provincial chapters of the SCJM was announced. At the meeting, Abel Prieto Jiménez, current director of the Office of the Martí Program, was elected President of the SCJM. Héctor Hernández Pardo remains in his position as first vice president, and continue in their functions as vice presidents René González Sehwerert, Hero of the Republic of Cuba, Yusuam Palacios Ortega, Rafael Polanco Brahojos and Graciela Rodríguez Pérez. At the end of the National Board work meeting, Cuban Minister of Culture Alpidio Alonso presented the National Culture Distinction to an institution with a long and rich trajectory in the dissemination of our Apostle's figure, the José Martí Birthplace House Museum, and to nine personalities.

Camera Orchestra Música Eterna will perform in western Cuba

The Música Eterna Chamber Orchestra, directed by National Music Prize winner Guido López Gavilán, will perform these days in the western provinces, in tribute to the Cuban Culture Day. This initiative, also dedicated to the 9th Congress of Uneac, begins next Saturday in the municipality of San José de las Lajas, in Mayabeque province, then heading on Sunday to the municipality of San Antonio de los Baños, in Artemisa province. For the occasion, an attractive program has been chosen that includes works by Chaikovsky, Falla, Piazzolla, and also by great Cuban musicians such as Ignacio Piñeiro, Enrique Jorrín and Sindo Garay. In Bejucal, Bauta and Artemisa, on the 9th, 10th and 11th respectively, compositions signed by Guido López Gavilán will also be heard. The Música Eterna Chamber Orchestra will also perform in Pinar del Río (13), Las Terrazas (14), Matanzas (20) and Cárdenas (21). The José Martí National Library will host, on October 18th, the concert that this distinguished ensemble has reserved for the capital.

Book Iconography of the Ten Years' War will be presented

The book Iconography of the Ten Years' War, 1868-1878, by authors Manuel Moreno and Zoila Lapique, published by Boloña editions, is presented this weekend at the Saturday of Books, in Havana, reports Radio Reloj. The text constitutes a graphic reconstruction of the first stage of the struggle for Cuba's independence, known as the Ten Years' War or Great War, a historical event of which we will celebrate 150 years on October 10th. The publication is headed by the Shield of the Republic of Cuba in Arms, and is a mandatory reference text for those interested in Cuba's rich history.