New plastic art exhibition calls for environmental protection

The Havana artist Gisachy Saura Huet is making a new call to protect the environment with the pictographic exhibition Ozone, which is open to the public at the gallery of the Julian del Casal Cultural Center in Old Havana.

On this occasion, he presents 13 works of different techniques and sizes, all related to nature, a recurrent theme in the work of this artist, who with this exhibition salutes the World Environment Day, celebrated every June 5th, established by the United Nations since 1977.

The pieces are part of a larger compilation entitled Oxygen, which the painter began to develop in 2016 and which has already traveled through various spaces and is now renewed with works characterized by more colors and new textures, including four new ones made with acrylic paint on cardboard.

The new presentation is the result of an invitation by the specialist and professor Doreya Villar Junco, who also collaborated with the curatorship and the assembly, in the premises of the House of Culture, located on Revillagigedo Street, between Gloria and Mission, in the historic center of Havana, and can be visited Monday to Friday, between 10:00 am and 4:00 pm.

Gisachy Saura Huet is an artist who has dedicated much of his career to teaching. In addition to constantly producing art, he has been a visual arts instructor in the cultural centers of Central Havana and Old Havana.

His professional training includes studies as a cartoonist at the Union of Journalists of Cuba; portraitist at the José Antonio Díaz Peláez Experimental Center for Visual Arts; assistant film animator at the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry; and scenographic design at the Cuban Institute of Radio and Television.

Translated by Luis E. Amador Dominguez