{"id":2992,"date":"2024-06-06T08:54:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T12:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/?p=2992"},"modified":"2024-06-05T16:55:02","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T20:55:02","slug":"the-visual-universe-of-adigio-benitez-at-the-jose-marti-national-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/the-visual-universe-of-adigio-benitez-at-the-jose-marti-national-library-06062024\/","title":{"rendered":"The Visual Universe of Adigio Ben\u00edtez at the Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ed National Library"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The exhibition <strong>The Poetry of Shapes and Colors<\/strong>, dedicated to the centenary of Adigio Ben\u00edtez, National Prize for Visual Arts 2002, will open this Thursday, June 6, at the Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ed National Library of Cuba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This extensive showcase of paintings by the National Prize for Artistic Education 2003 awardee spans from the 1970s to 2000. The National Council of Visual Arts, the hosting institution, and the artist\u2019s family\u2014heirs to a valuable collection\u2014wish to pay tribute to this great artist by bringing his works back to the public eye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an exclusive 2002 interview with La Jiribilla magazine, Ben\u00edtez explained what he called \u00abpapiroflexia\u00bb or \u00abpapirolandia,\u00bb affirming that it remained a constant in his work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00abPapirolandia,\u00bb he stated, aimed to represent reality in a more poetic way through images. He mentioned that he had spent several years working on both painting and drawing, and held exhibitions featuring characters he named \u00abpapirotes.\u00bb<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the 1990s, he combined these paper characters\u2014sometimes human, sometimes animal\u2014with houses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Regarding his four published poetry notebooks, and in response to journalist Estrella D\u00edaz&#8217;s query about whether he preferred expressing his feelings with words or with color, Adigio Ben\u00edtez asserted that \u00abthere is no doubt that I prefer to express myself with color, but poetry is a great passion, just like painting.\u00bb<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He emphasized that he chose the path of visual arts because it aligned more closely with his vocation. He noted that painting always held a sacred place for him, despite his need for verse. \u00abPerhaps that is my second craft,\u00bb the master declared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Translated by Luis E. 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