{"id":4064,"date":"2025-05-16T18:13:27","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T22:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/?p=4064"},"modified":"2025-05-16T18:13:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T22:13:27","slug":"acto-de-fe-by-jose-angel-toirac-to-open-at-villa-manuela-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/acto-de-fe-by-jose-angel-toirac-to-open-at-villa-manuela-gallery-16052025\/","title":{"rendered":"Acto de Fe by Jos\u00e9 \u00c1ngel Toirac to Open at Villa Manuela Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Villa Manuela Gallery of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC) opened its latest exhibition, <strong>Acto de fe<\/strong>, this Thursday, featuring the work of renowned Cuban artist Jos\u00e9 \u00c1ngel Toirac (1966), recipient of the 2018 National Visual Arts Award.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition presents pieces inspired by the writings and anecdotes of Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ed\u2014both his own and those written about him\u2014as a starting point to explore universal themes such as life, love, and death. These enduring concepts have long shaped Toirac\u2019s artistic vision, forging a thoughtful dialogue between art and literature.<\/p>\n<p>Art critic and Villa Manuela Gallery specialist Ana Beatriz Almeida S\u00e1nchez writes in the exhibition catalog: \u201c(&#8230;) The exhibition is designed to guide viewers on a journey through history. In this context, evoking Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ed\u2019s legacy becomes essential for inspiring hope and unity (&#8230;).\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Acto de fe<\/strong> will remain on view from May through July.<\/p>\n<p>Translated by Luis E. Amador Dominguez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The exhibition presents pieces inspired by the writings and anecdotes of Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ed\u2014both his own and those written about him\u2014as a starting point to explore universal themes such as life, love, and death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4065,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[929,928],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-4064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-cuba","tag-jose-angel-toirac","tag-villa-manuela-gallery"],"authors":[{"term_id":7,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"cmbq-radio-enciclopedia","display_name":"CMBQ Radio Enciclopedia","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4066,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4064\/revisions\/4066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4064"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=4064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}