Arte por Excelencias magazine at Don Pepe

By Alexis Triana

The magazine Arte 40 was launched in a fraternal gathering at Café Don Pepe, located in the legendary Trinidad, in order to celebrate the declaration of this major city as World Craft City. The audience gathered friends and contributors who attended despite the heat of the summer.

Among the guests who shared  the coffee with comments about the contents of this edition which has already circulated in international fairs such as Art Marbella and it has been  presented in several capitals of the Isle, we can mentioned  the artisans from Urdimbre Project,  cultural promoters like the researcher Carlos Sotolongo, the historian Victor Echeganusía, the executive Alberto Turiño,  plastic artists and art critics such as Roidley Pérez Navarro and Atner Cadalso  whose work has been shown in the pages of ARTE.

The interview with  Alberto de Betolaza, Director of Crafts of the Ministry of Industries from Uruguay and President of the World Crafts Council (WCC) impressed the audience as well as his words “ the practice of craftwork has a future for  this city as World Heritage and it also can contribute to a greater acknowledgment of the region, since this phenomenon took place before Trinidad was declared World Craft City.

The 40th edition includes a beautiful  leaflet about the exhibition Artesanos Cubanos Hoy, which took  place at Villa Manuela Gallery and it was coordinated by (Fondo de Bienes Culturales)where the official news about the VII Intergovernmental Craft  Council  Meeting as well as the reasons for the nomination of Trinidad as Craft City was collected.

The executive editor of this edition invited those present to participate in the next Excelencias Gourmet Seminar, which is going to take place in her home city on October 26th and 27th. To this event are going to assist important personalities from the tourism and culinary world. She also exhorted  them to exhibit their most notable works and projects since this will be a unique opportunity for the  splendid Trinidad and for its Valle de los Ingenios.