By Jorge Rivas
Newspaper Workers
So Eusebio Leal called the creation of this young artist who performed the works that make up the prizes Poetry Contest X Regino Pedroso.
"We found in this work the infinite love. Blessed are those who love as they see in Africa or in Cuba the promised land, "said Eusebio Leal, Historian of Havana, leaving opened one of the most significant samples (Instincts on the Mount) of the renowned painter, illustrator, ceramist and photographer Rafael M. Calvo González, a young artist who this year enhanced by his work the Poetry Contest Prizes Regino Pedroso, which will be delivered on the occasion of National Culture Day.
laurels those winners and special award by the Workers' 35th anniversary, you can enjoy through drawings specially designed and donated by him for this occasion, the "secret and mysterious universe," according to Leal, the artistic production of Calvo: "Undoubtedly, the preciousness of his work as an artist in the truest sense and depths of the word. Beautiful not only in form but in the background, precious in the search for the true picture of who we are or were, after which mankind wanders from the paradise that had in Palestine or in Africa today. " Based
folklorists and ethnological studies that the artist made in his native Isle of Youth, research which drew on the testimony of some young Africans who studied in that territory, come the stories of these works recreated, through a rich and noble imagery-in a cultural phenomenon of intense fertility in the formation and development of our Cuban. Impregnate their drawings that depth of thought that characterizes him, twisted personality which also merge nobility, humor and commitment, time and history in which he lived, Calvo reveals, with uninhibited creative freedom techniques African rhythmic primitivism. Both inks on cardboard and in its medium and large format charcoal on canvas, all achieved a reduction of naturalism synthetic Afro-Caribbean, whose myths are torn between their nature and a clear trend figurative abstractionist.
About his work, the prominent poet Nancy Morejon said, "Calvo sensitivity carries a road that splits into two islands, or rather, who wanted to stand-by choice and in their own right-a sort of swing cuddled a huge island (Cuba) and a short island (Isla de la Juventud). In this space, surrounded by bright dreams everywhere, "rears its head a good original art so poignant, as fine as silent, as it has in its waters and masks involves washed in a masterful play of light and shade, seated all in land meeting the artist for us who come from far away, as his office has said so beautifully in this sample. "
Meanwhile, journalist and critic Calcines Algiers, Havana editor of Opus, said: "I had the privilege of seeing currently in the process of creation when, as outlined previously, these fetishes are being endowed power by the artist, an energy that transmit their fingers through the use of charcoal tough to achieve effects that compel us to perceive and respect the occult.
"Every feeling, from fear to joy, is expressed through art Calvo, on the edge between abstraction and figuration, it becomes dark deliberately to underline the depth of being human unconscious, the emotions ... the instincts of the mountain. "
"It becomes apparent Calvo style. And that is net profit for the artist and Cuban art was pleased to learn how Calvo dynamite certain forms of symbolic perception in the plausible effort to highlight the sign, the suggestion and the new possibilities of expression above the commonplace " emphasized the critical and specialist of the National Council of Plastic Arts, Virginia Alberdi.
"Sometimes I do not know what to admire most in the artist, if his work or being a child of the values \u200b\u200bof generosity, selflessness, instilled by the Revolution. When you know the works he has given some grandparents' house, the Central de Trabajadores de Cuba, the Association of Economists, dependencies of the office of the Republic, to the administration of People's Power or his work in creating a ceramic mural in Pinar del River, we realize that marketing has tempted others, has not touched the virtues, love for art, this young man. " So
said Rolando Rodriguez Garcia, adviser of the Council of Ministers, and Vice President of Latin American Scientific and Cultural Foundation José Martí, Spain, which won its work on Calvo Martí, displayed, along with other pieces of his, on the Executive Committee Council of Ministers, which was part of the annual award in 2003 gave this institution to Dr. Concepción Campa, director of the Finlay Institute and discoverer of the meningococcal vaccine.
So that this young artist and his work, which honors the tenth edition of Regino Pedroso, whose call ends this August 31.
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