Spanish artist celebrates Cuba, its dance and everyday life

With the exhibition Losería, una fantasía habanera, the Spanish artist Pablo Sycet has transformed an old crockery shop in what is now the La Moderna gallery.

The title of the show is not a whim of the author of this exhibition, since «it refers to a popular Cuban expression, the name of the household goods shops, such as chinaware, to turn it into a pictorial fantasy», explains the creator.

Sycet also expressed his admiration for the Cuban musician Benny Moré, for Cuba and for Alicia Alonso, to whom he paid homage by donating a painting to the National Dance Museum.

The work is called Alicia Alonso, la inspiración y el estilo, because she was the prima ballerina assolutta, the artistic prima ballerina with her way of dancing, he explained. It is also a tribute to the National Ballet of Cuba, which is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year.

Sycet pointed out that one of the aims of the exhibition is to build emotional bridges between very distant times, bringing our eyes and artistic sensibilities closer together through visual recreations of everyday objects.

The former shop, which never lost the name of La Moderna, although it lost its original essence, is now losing it forever, he added.

The artist has always worked on canvas or white paper, not only, as Sycet himself puts it, «for the strength of tradition», but also for the intimate challenge of each of the sensations he feels in his work. Source: Prensa Latina

Translated by Luis E. Amador Dominguez