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• Arts and Culture
• Havana
• Paint and Sculpture
• 02 / 06 / 2007

More than 70 pieces that show all of the splendor and achievements of the Cuban visual artist Servando Cabrera Moreno (1923-l981) are being exhibited in the re-opened Museum Library that has the name of the creator, in its new venue in El Vedado in the capital. As part of the efforts of the country to increase the general integral cultural level of the people, within the context of the Battle of Ideas, the installation was repaired and its conception reveals the interest to the point of details, to hand in a work of excellent conditions.

The museum exhibits and promotes the work and the personal collections of the artist Servando Cabrera Moreno, and can be found in Villa Lita, in the central Paseo avenue, on the corner of 13 street. Lina Blanco, its director explained to AIN that they have a great collection of pieces by the prolific artist. In those that are being shown now, she pointed out, there are reflected the different moments of the creator as a drawer, and his reflection of the epic and erotic themes. One of the rooms reminds people pf what used to be the work room of Cabrera Moreno, with paintings from his last year and the unfinished oil paintings in which he was working, and another one recreates one of the family rooms with paintings and pictures, as well as the Joan Miró international drawing award that he got in 1969.

There is a special charm, when one walks through the cultural institution, to the room dedicated to the great collection of popular art, among the greatest and most diverse in Cuba, which was the property of the artist and which can be today admired by the public visiting the museum. There are also pieces he possessed from famous artists, among them, original pieces from Wifredo Lam, Amelia Peláez, Antonia Eiriz, Tomás Sánchez, Flavio Garciandía and the Spanish Antonio Rodríguez Morey.

The exhibition is completed by the rooms dedicated specifically to his pictorial work, which impact through their color and forms. On the outside, the so called Garden of the sculptures, has pieces from renowned Cuban artists of that specialty, a space which will include different pieces every two years. The renowned Cuban essay writer and art critique Graziella Pogolotti said that Servando Cabrera was an isolated figure within Cuban visual arts. Hard to fit within the schemes and schools established generations ago, he walks among them like a solitary stroller, paying attention only to the demands of his conscience as an artist.

Source: Cubarte