Alberto Lescay Merencio inaugurated mega-exhibit Somos

By: Octavio Borges

Relevant Santiago de Cuba sculptor and painter Alberto Lescay inaugurated recently at the Pabellón Cuba, the mega-exhibit Somos, to homage the 1967 Salón de Mayo called by Wifredo Lam, and the 30th Jazz Plaza 2014 Festival.

Lescay started his actions in the morning creating a mural in the same place where Lam and his European artists friends painted an emblematic one dedicated to the Cuban Revolution, a compulsory referent for similar and subsequent creative actions.    

Participating in this work  were the Visual Arts National Prize,  Nelson Domínguez, North American Ben Jones, Eduardo Roca (Choco), Kamyl Bullaudy, Diana Balboa, Alicia Leal, Juan Moreira, Roberto Diago, Swedish Martin Engler, Italian Martina Botta, Miguel González Pulido, Bobby Carcassés, poet Waldo Leyva, and the Spanish four years old boy  Ibai Menéndez, among some others.

There was a spectacular performance—interactive visual action—of the group Ojos Teatro, from Santiago de Cuba, actors’ bodies painted and great wings inspired in Lescay´s sculptures.

These youngsters amazed those present with their poetic images and the slow harmony of movements that they repeated with the huge piece Rosa La Bayamesa, awesome in a great colored caper.

There were also two samples, one with the paintings of Lescay and Bobby Carcassés, and another of the original sketches of the Santiago de Cuban artist when he studied at the Repin Academy in Leningrad, previously Soviet Union, between 1973 and 1979.

This works refers to his youth, evidencing his great talent. There is also an exhibit of his son Alejandro, with whom he shares Somos cultural project.

Also presented was the book Agenda de notas, Lescay, mil 863 días en la URSS, from Ediciones Holguín, which according to writer and journalist Alexis Triana, president of the Organizing Committee of the Romerias de Mayo, should be published by a national publishing house and distributed in every arts school because it is a legacy for the new generations.

The day closed with a concert of his other son, Alberto, musician, composer, trumpet player, who performed with his group Formas.

Somos was exhibited for the first time in Holguín, and the one at the Pabellón Cuba will be transfer to Santiago de Cuba, the next scale in its travel.  

Source: AIN