Nelson Domínguez arts exhibit to be inaugurated during Fidel de Corazón Fest

Por: Adalys Pérez

An arts exhibit with works in which Nelson Domínguez recreates the image of the Cuban Revolution historic leader was inaugurated last week at Galería L, as part of the activities the Cuban Federation of University Students (FEU, as per its initials in Spanish) carries out during the Jornada Fidel de Corazón, conceived to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the date in which Fidel started to study at the University of Havana.

Con Fidel is the title of the exhibit that gathers 14 medium and small format pieces, including lithography, sketches and paintings made in different moments of the artist’s professional life and that are a reduced selection of the works the 2009 Visual Arts National Award has dedicated to the Commander in Chief, without excluding sculpture.

Some minutes before the opening ceremony, Domínguez told the press the support of this work—still in progress—has been to show his Fidel based in images in which he reveals all his humanity away from possible mysticisms. So, in some of these works with a marked neo- expressionist stamp, the statesman appears fishing with Jose Martí or together with Alicia Alonso.

Likewise he said that among the causes for his preference for this theme is how suggestive the physical image of the leader is from the artistic point of view and the memories he kept as a little boy, when he visited his house in Sierra Maestra Mountains, during the struggle against the tyranny of Fulgencio Batista.

He added the fact to present this exhibit at Galería L, belonging to the University of Havana, has a special meaning for him, because this is the place where he made his first personal exhibition in 1971, which he keeps completely.

Part of this collection from Nelson Domínguez has been already exhibited in the country. The most recent exhibition was presented in MININT’s gallery in Artemisa last February.

Source: Cubarte