Exhibition by Eduardo Ponjuán is inaugurated inthe National Museum of Fine Arts

By: Adalys Pérez Suárez

In correspondence with the National Arts Award that was awarded in 2013 to the painter, draftsman, sculptor, installer, and recognized pedagogue Edward Ponjuán, from Friday the National Museum of Fine Arts in Cuba gives one of its transitional halls to the work of who began to excel in the early 80s of last century.

Besame Mucho title of the famous bolero by Consuelo Velázquez, was chosen by the artist for the exhibition that will be exhibited until February 1^st , 2015 on the third floor of the Cuban Art Building, exhibit to the public nine works and two installations  of recent creation  in which the conceptual line that identifies him is nevertheless present.

The idea of the ephemeral, of the transitory inspires this proposal in which Ponjuán, still recovering from a sensitive family lost, intends to remind the comforting power of a kiss to the ups and downs of life.

His usual reference to the everyday reborn once again in a torn sheet, a pair of tennis courts, a 45 RPM record, a blank photographic plate or pedestal, images at first sight simple but revealing the mastery of this artist.

Among the pieces that brings out the exhibition highlights the installation Unmonumental, No monumental in Spanish, where the references to personal experiences, such as the photo of his grandmother or the receipt given to him at the Guggenheim Museum, join others that point to the history of art as the sculpture pedestals Lolo Soldevilla, found by him in a dumpster.

In Besame Mucho Eduardo Ponjuán put back to test the traditional appreciation of beauty and restless viewers who will try to grasp the images brought to canvas by who understands art as "an act of freedom from which criticism is exercised."

Source: Cubarte