The famous Mexican artist Jose Luis Cuevas will donate a monumental sculpture to the Casa de las Americas.
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- 02 / 14 / 2008
The piece will have between three to five meters high and will be made in bronze. The executive explained that it is not yet known what the work will be.
What it is clear is that the main motive of the piece will be the 50 anniversary of the Casa de las Americas, emphasized the specialist.
The painter and sculptor received here, last 29 of January, the title Doctor Honoris Causa, given by the Cuban Higher arts Institute (ISA, after its initials in Spanish).
Benigne ruled out the version that the work will be placed at the main courtyard of the Casa and is inclined to place it in the outside gardens.
It is undoubtedly, however, that the piece will be placed in the area of the Casa de las Americas.
The project must be finished by 2009 and installed in April of that year, coinciding with the half century of existence of the institution.
During his stay in Cuba, Cuevas opened a personal exhibition in the seat of the Rodrigo Prats Museum, with the title "A La Habana me voy" (Im going to Havana).
The exhibition was made out of 51 pieces from different periods of the work of the artist.
The work of Jose Luis Cuevas was internationally known during an exhibition in Washington in 1954. A year later, in Paris, the brilliant Pablo Picasso, acquired two of his drawings.
Among the main distinctions and award he won are, The First International Award of Drawing in the V Biennale of Sao Paulo (1959), the First International Award of Engraving at the I Triennial of New Delhi (1968).
He also won the 1981, National Sciencies and Arts Awards in Mexico and the International Award of the Engraving World Council in San Francisco in 1984.
During the opening ceremony of a retrospective exhibition at the Casa de la Moneda de Madrid Museum in 1997, Spanish Queen Sophie gave him the Tomás Francisco Prieto Award.
(PL)
What it is clear is that the main motive of the piece will be the 50 anniversary of the Casa de las Americas, emphasized the specialist.
The painter and sculptor received here, last 29 of January, the title Doctor Honoris Causa, given by the Cuban Higher arts Institute (ISA, after its initials in Spanish).
Benigne ruled out the version that the work will be placed at the main courtyard of the Casa and is inclined to place it in the outside gardens.
It is undoubtedly, however, that the piece will be placed in the area of the Casa de las Americas.
The project must be finished by 2009 and installed in April of that year, coinciding with the half century of existence of the institution.
During his stay in Cuba, Cuevas opened a personal exhibition in the seat of the Rodrigo Prats Museum, with the title "A La Habana me voy" (Im going to Havana).
The exhibition was made out of 51 pieces from different periods of the work of the artist.
The work of Jose Luis Cuevas was internationally known during an exhibition in Washington in 1954. A year later, in Paris, the brilliant Pablo Picasso, acquired two of his drawings.
Among the main distinctions and award he won are, The First International Award of Drawing in the V Biennale of Sao Paulo (1959), the First International Award of Engraving at the I Triennial of New Delhi (1968).
He also won the 1981, National Sciencies and Arts Awards in Mexico and the International Award of the Engraving World Council in San Francisco in 1984.
During the opening ceremony of a retrospective exhibition at the Casa de la Moneda de Madrid Museum in 1997, Spanish Queen Sophie gave him the Tomás Francisco Prieto Award.
(PL)
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