By Giusette León García. One round moon and the lone dog light up the seafront nights, three shooting stars like a diminutive hummingbird to light wishes evoking someone or imagining all the mysteries of Havana, accomplice of such restless city... Afterwards, there is another city, actually the same, but from a different perspective. Under the lights that shine in every creator, Havana introduces itself diverse, inspiring, and attractive, in the exhibition "Luces de la Ciudad". It will last throughout the month of November at the Vedado Hotel, as part of the celebrations for the 80th anniversary of this center.">By Giusette León García. One round moon and the lone dog light up the seafront nights, three shooting stars like a diminutive hummingbird to light wishes evoking someone or imagining all the mysteries of Havana, accomplice of such restless city... Afterwards, there is another city, actually the same, but from a different perspective. Under the lights that shine in every creator, Havana introduces itself diverse, inspiring, and attractive, in the exhibition "Luces de la Ciudad". It will last throughout the month of November at the Vedado Hotel, as part of the celebrations for the 80th anniversary of this center.">

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By Giusette León García. One round moon and the lone dog light up the seafront nights, three shooting stars like a diminutive hummingbird to light wishes evoking someone or imagining all the mysteries of Havana, accomplice of such restless city...

Afterwards, there is another city, actually the same, but from a different perspective. Under the lights that shine in every creator, Havana introduces itself diverse, inspiring, and attractive, in the exhibition "Luces de la Ciudad". It will last throughout the month of November at the Vedado Hotel, as part of the celebrations for the 80th anniversary of this center.

Distinguished as National Monument and Historical Memory of the World by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the National Hotel has "hosted" for eight decades transcendent events and figures of cultural and social history of this country.

Once again we should thank Roberto Chile the opportunity to enjoy in the same room the work of a diverse and valuable group of artists, representatives of different generations and styles. On this occasion, Havana waits for those who have it as the common subject of their works, and others whose intentions are to enrich and exalt the city.

At the same time, sensitive and expert of Cuban arts, Chile could not leave out names such as Ileana Mulet, José Omar Torres, Sandor González, among others, whose cities we have already "visited".

With regard to his own work, Sandor commented: "My work is a bit strong. It is like a damaged work, an average hotel in the dark, with cracks, but as it is Luces de la ciudad, that's the target: two characters are white, the Cuban flag is in the center as if everything comes out from there. It's Cuba and represents lights."

Ileana Mulet said: "I am a woman marked by the world of the city. It seems that this dream was born with me when I moved to Havana. In this exhibition, I brought the work "Otoño en el Vedado" because we do not really have seasons, but many trees lose their leaves. The sky is red and the facades have also red forms. There are a lot of positive things in what I am doing lately...

"I am indebted to the younger generations and everything related to the world change, so I deal with the environmental issue -the work has lots of fishes, dogs, and people in the windows."

"I am grateful to Chile, who invited a group of young boys, and included me in this beautiful project that he knows how to cure it with such mastery."

Chile himself decided to show one of his works, this time a manipulated picture denoting the infinite time of a place that, among clouds, and "in spite of everything, remains there", commented the author, who is satisfied to share as one of the team.  

What does Havana mean for you? For Sandor Gonzalez, it is his home. It has been a good choice to live and die in Havana. Chile describes Havana as "a lively city, inspiring poets and writers, painters and musicians, and everyone who expresses through art its beauty and its scars with love and fantasy."

He proposed to introduce it to ourselves that way: "uneven, colorful, futuristic in some cases, in others, realistic, all imbued with provocative proposals, humor, serenity, convulsion, abstraction or charm."

Cubasi Translation Staff

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