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The completion and mounting in this city of a life-sized sculpture of Juan Cristobal Napoles Fajardo, known as El Cucalambe, materialized a long held desire of farmers and decimistas (performers of ten syllable verses).

A huge Cuban visual arts exhibition without precedents, called ¡CUBA! Arte e historia de 1868 hasta nuestros días (CUBA! Art and history from 1868 to our days) is being successfully exhibited at the Fine Arts Museum from Montreal, Canada) since January 29, 2008.

The National Fine Arts Museum presents a retrospective of the pictorial work of one of the best Cuban poets of all time. I’m talking about Un Sol Desconocido: Samuel Feijoo, which was inaugurated on April 25.

After winning three Olympic and six World titles, which earned him the nickname of “boxeador historia” (legendary boxer), Cuba’s Félix Savón Fabré now has his hands set on conquering the artistic world.

For 50 years he has perforated wood, metal, linoleum and stone, teaching his pupils the secrets of engraving and becoming one of the most outstanding promoters of this art in Cuba during the second half of the twentieth century.

The current reality, expressed by means of aesthetic speeches of high quality, is evident in the pieces Pensar y Actuar, by Annia López Rivero, and Trinchera, by Gabriel Cisneros, and Sin piel hacia mi sombra, by José Enrique Valdés, rewarded in the exhibition The Plastic Art in April.

The Cuban flora has inspired artist Jorge Duporté, who has created beautiful stained-glass windows.Duporté, who has a gallery-workshop in the community Las Terrazas, has participated in 50 exhibitions.

The exhibition is the first joint project between Caixa Galicia and the Cuban museum after the signing of a special agreement on bilateral collaboration last year aimed at promoting exhibitions of Galician painters in Cuba and Cuban expositions in Galicia.

Different pieces from the painter from Pinar del Río Pedro Blanco Aroche, famous representative of naïf art in Cuba, will be exhibited on the month of May in the kingdom of Luxemburg, Western Europe.

The second Biennial of Artistic Ceramic EnBarrArte 2008 began to be held in Santi Spiritus, with the presence of a twenty of creators from seven territories of the island.

The Cuban painter, drawer and illustrator Nelson Domínguez exhibits his most recent pictorial production at the Miurart Village Museum, found in the city of Matsuyama, Japan, informed the Cuban Embassy in that nation.

With his engrossing Flor luna (Moonflower), artist Wifredo Lam delivers the portrait of a woman with generous breasts, thorns in her hair (or is it a mane?), a Bogeyman face and a horse-like mouth rendered the more grotesque by what appears to be an engorged fang.

“Larios” workshop gallery remains as a delusion of grandeur trace left by those enormous housings built during the 18th century in the former village of Santa María del Puerto del Príncipe.

The work entitled Without Skin toward My Shade, Narcissus, by the plastic artist José Enrique Valdés Cano, received the Great Prize of the second Erotic Art Exhibition, inaugurated in the building of the Association of Cuban Writers and Artists, in this eastern province Las Tunas.

The first persons in arriving in this city motivated by the “Puerto Príncipe 2008” Sixth International Symposium on Artistic Ceramic began yesterday to shape their pieces using the clay of this legendary city.