Havana: A meeting of fourteen Cuban designers will hold sessions from Feb. 7 to 10 at the Ruben Martinez Villena Hall of the Cuban League of Writers and Artists (UNEAC).
As the event’s organizers put it, this time around “instead of pencils or PC mice, Cuban poster makers will take the microphones,” […] “to comment the posters they make before the public, show preferences and influences, reveal secrets and share uncertainties.”
The special guest of these sessions will be artist Hector Villaverde, recipient of the UNEAC 2007 “Eduardo Muñoz Bachs” Award and president of Prografica Cubana. The list of boldface guests invited to talk to the public also includes the likes of Laura Llopiz, Michelle Miyares Hollands, Giselle Monzon, Idania del Rio, Pepe Menendez, R10, Fabian Muñoz, Eric Silva, Eduardo Marin, Edel Rodriguez, Raupa, Roberto Ramos and Nelson Ponce.[1]
The cycle will come to a close with a creative workshop for students on Feb. 11 and the grand opening at 5:00pm of CACa en el Taller, an exhibit of Cuban posters by the members of the Club de Amigos del Cartel (CAca) at the “Rene Portocarrero” Serigraphy Studio.
“Nobody has asked us to do it. Indeed, no one has given us the floor either,” the program reads. “This is a voluntary work, an act of faith in ourselves and in the fabulous work of poster making.” They’ll do it, they say, as a principle. “Under the tutorial shadow of E. M. Bachs –the greatest silenced– and that talkative genius who ran by the name of A. G. Rostgaard […] we’ll try to make this both amusing and timely, even instructive. Let’s make it work as a way to do away with certain burdens and routines some others continue to refer to today’s Cuban graphic arts with.”
See more at http://sitios.cubisima.com/hechopecho/programa.html
[1] On the topic of graphic design in the Americas and the Caribbean, we recommend the consultation of designer Pepe Menendez’s column in our Arte por Excelencias magazine.
