Cuban Fine Arts Museum being prepared for a big Belgian art exhibition

A team composed of civil engineers, architects, museum specialists, curators and technical staff from the Cuban Fine Arts Museum is working hard on the Universal Art Building for the exhibition of Belgian contemporary art entitled The importante of being...

This art exhibition, being the largest of its kind exhibited in Latin America, includes 60 works by 40 leading artists, and covers areas never before used for exhibitions, such as the stairs, the main lobby and those on the third and fourth floors. It requires metal structures hidden on roofs and false roofs to withstand the weight of some pieces, new walls and about nine projection booths.

This cultural event will be inaugurated on February 13, at 4 pm and will remain opened until April 26. Then, it will move to Buenos Aires (Argentina) and to Río de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, Brazil.

María del Carmen Pérez, civil engineer linked to the Fine Art Museum for years, told AIN News Agency that the restoration and adjustment works to be in accordance with the art exhibition must ensure, by their big dimension, the preservation of these facilities for, at least one more decade.

Evelyn de Díos, assistant of the main curator Sara Alonso Gómez, highlights the huge effort made for over two years to coordinate and finance The importante of being…, which gathers an overview of the Belgian avant-garde art from the nineteen-sixties up to the present, that even several of these artists traveled to Havana to conceive their artworks.

She explained this time it covers all the imaginable supports and a wide media thematic, ranging from political and social aspects, such as democracy, racial or ideological discrimination, ecology and existential problems of men today, among others.

The exhibition opens at the main stairs with a piece hanging on the ceiling of the Cameroonian residing in Belgium,  Pascale Marthine  Tayou, entitled Falling house, a photograph printed on wood which, metaphorically speaking, refers to the Third World, an impressive artwork by its size and evocative power.