• Submitted by: Luis Manuel Mazorra
• Arts and Culture
• 11 / 18 / 2011

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The National Museum of Fine Arts of Cuba will present the upcoming December Rare and valuable: Taveira show dedicated to facsimile printing. Book is based on the types and customs of the island of Cuba is in the Jose Marti National Library as part of rare and valuable collection.

This shows that will be displayed at the Gallery Information Centre of MNBA Antonio Rodriguez Morey also welcomes the declaration by UNESCO of 2011 as International Year of African Descent.

The centerpieces of the exhibition are the original glass plates were used to play in the book illustrations of twenty Spanish custom painter based in Victor Patricio de Cuba Landaluce, from phototype, technical and forgotten and which was introduced in Cuba Alfredo Pereira Portuguese Taveira, but also can be seen the first edition of that volume dating from 1881.

The collotype was a European invention and Taveira, who arrived in Cuba early age, made it possible for the island was at the height of France and Germany in the use of this modern photographic technique in periodicals.

This set of Collotype was exhibited for over thirty years in the Colonial Museum and since then is exposed for what constitutes a great opportunity to see this technique as important in its time and so forgotten, which is kept on file in the Office of prints from the National Museum of Fine Arts from 1913 that were donated by the same Taveira before he died that same year.

Taveira published in the newspaper the first gravure Museum held in Cuba, collaborated with the newspaper Le Figaro and also wore the traditional gravure work in almost all the national press.

The book types and customs of the island of Cuba, which belongs to the Rare and Valuable Collection of the National Library has a foreword written by Dr. Antonio Bachiller y Morales appear in the same group of texts of the most prestigious folkloric the time corresponding to the illustrations Landaluce.

This volume is in every library in the country because each is donated two copies, which allows it to be read and enjoyed by general readers, this gem of the nineteenth century literature, which by their degree of fragility has not been possible without this facsimile edition.