Cuban Art Circle opens Encuentros art exhibition

Havana.- The Cuban Art Circle, a gifted group of young and original artists, opened the collective exhibition Encuentros in El Templete restaurant, located in the Cuban capital city.

Yoxy Velásquez, Andrys Gil, Carlos Aguilar, Fernando Reyna, Jorge Luis Bradshaw, Luis Enrique López-Chávez, Miguel  Alejandro Machado, Oslendy Hernández, Roger Toledo and Yeremy Guerra, took for three months the walls of the well-known restaurant, to conceive a very diverse, irreverent exhibition, with original ways of reflecting art from new perspectives.

For several years, Marisol Gort, marketing specialist of that center, has developed the initiative of matching visual arts with culinary arts, where both win and complement, and provides a healthy culture environment to feed body and spirit.

 For this reason, Chef William Fernández created the artists’ dish, while talking with Yoxy, the only girl of the group, while he translated the language of food, colors, textures and shapes displayed on the walls.

This dish—tenderloin stuffed with nuts, a special sauce with hummus, which is a food of Arab origin made with chickpeas, now recreated with peas, mushrooms and a vegetable pie—will remain on the menu throughout the exhibition.

It also has the possibility of being included on the permanent offer, according to the audience acceptance at El Templete restaurant.

Amid medium and large formats, in accordance with the characteristics of the exhibiting room, the visitor may have the opportunity of enjoying suggestive pieces such as those of Fernando Reyna, who apart from the bad habit of smoking cigars, he creates colors, elegant drawings with the ashes, and recreates stale cigar brands which are not longer sold in the market.

In the meantime, Roger Toledo, from an apparent monochromatic obsession, reveals the so many nuances of just one color, while Jorge Luis Brahshaw suggests a memory of sky bits, childhood memories where he does not use brushes, but other resources, to propose suggestive, and even ghostly landscapes.

The small and fragile Yoxy exhibits her incredible inner strength in her paintings, and joins other colleagues of her in this exhibition that opens the spring season at El Templete with a fresh, original and unquiet vision about the emerging directions of Cuban contemporary art.

Source: AIN