The quadrature of the circle: a decade of creativity in Factoría Habana

As insoluble for the mathematicians of ancient Greece as the duplication of the cube or the trisection of the angle, the quadrature of the circle has transcended to this day as a symbol of a perpetual search, as infinite as can be the one that assumes for different paths the art.

In that desire for transcendence, always preceded by a research process that tends to erase dogmas and borders for the sake of creativity, the work carried out by Factoría Habana during the decade since it was created, as part of the cultural institutions of the Office of the Historian of the City.

To celebrate this trajectory and with the curatorship of Concha Fontenla, its director-founder, they have been invited to re-exhibit at the OˈReilly Street installation about twenty of the most outstanding representatives of contemporary Cuban art.

René Peña, José Ángel Toirac, Esterio Segura, Rocío García, Alejandro Campins, Antonio Eligio Fernández (Tonel), Adonis Ferro, Rafael Villares, Carlos Martiel, Cirenaica Moreira, Duvier del Dago, Humberto Díaz, Ernesto Oroza, José M. Mesías, Francisco de la Cal & Fernando Rodríguez, Ernesto Niebla & Saidi Boza, Fabián Muñoz, Luis Gómez, Octavio C. Marín and Sandra Ramos, make up the staff of the exhibition 10 of 500 / The square of the circle, also dedicated to the half millennium of Havana, within whose celebrations it was conceived.

For this project representative pieces of the work of each one of these authors were selected and, with it, of the creative polyphony existing in the Island, to which the institution gives space for dialogue and complementation.

Until the beginning of March, this proposal will be open to the public that offers a unique opportunity to be able to appreciate exponents of the most valuable of contemporary Cuban art and the well-known proposals of Factoría Habana.

On the cover: René Peña's work