For Historian Eusebio Leal Spengler
City
note in the exhibition catalog
Mount Instincts
Thanks to the work of this young Cuban artist, we can move to the latitude of the world, from which came to us a host of ethnic groups, dialects, customs and cult, in short, a vast African humanity dunk over the Caribbean, transformed into a new Chaldean, a new Mediterranean where mixed cultures and civilizations, and the required font, the names of Pedro, Juan Antonio or merged Bartholomew Fula Surnames with Mandinga, Congo, Carabalí ...
With its noble art of mystical resonance, Rafael M. Calvo appropriates masks and other ancient symbols to send a message of human solidarity and racial equality.
And in his home town, the Isle of Youth, perhaps as nowhere else in the world, is met Marti's maxim:
· Man is more than white, more than mulatto, more than black ... ¨
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