{"id":4630,"date":"2025-12-25T08:27:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T12:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/?p=4630"},"modified":"2025-12-24T19:28:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T23:28:41","slug":"pedro-alvarez-exhibition-opens-at-cubas-national-museum-of-fine-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/pedro-alvarez-exhibition-opens-at-cubas-national-museum-of-fine-arts-25122025\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedro \u00c1lvarez Exhibition Opens at Cuba\u2019s National Museum of Fine Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This last Friday of December, the exhibition <strong><em>Keep on Painting, Peter<\/em><\/strong> will open at 4:00 p.m. in the temporary exhibition galleries on the second level of the Cuban Art Building at the National Museum of Fine Arts of Cuba.<\/p>\n<p>Curated by Jos\u00e9 \u00c1ngel Toirac, Dannys Montes de Oca, and Jorge A. Fern\u00e1ndez Torres, the exhibition traces the artistic legacy of Pedro \u00c1lvarez (1967\u20132004). It brings together oil paintings on canvas, sketches, silkscreens, and works in other media dating from 1985 to 2003. The selection includes pieces preserved by the museum, works from the artist\u2019s studio, and items from other collections, presented in dialogue with works from the institution\u2019s own holdings.<\/p>\n<p>Regarded as one of the most perceptive artists of his generation, \u00c1lvarez introduced a renewed vision of reality into Cuban art, drawing upon the history of art itself as a central reference, according to specialists.<\/p>\n<p>As noted by Corina Matamoros Tuma, Curator of Contemporary Art at the National Museum of Fine Arts of Cuba: \u201cHis original way of blending history, settings, and symbols from different eras allowed him to speak about the present, and about Cuban circumstances in particular. His works often bring together, within a single scene, Afro-Cuban \u2018little devils,\u2019 women drawn from colonial painting, classic American cars known as <em>almendrones<\/em>, or Coca-Cola emblems. Through this seemingly chaotic mixture, he achieves a fresh and intelligent reading of national reality, rich in analysis and humor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Translated by Luis E. Amador Dominguez<\/p>\n<p>Photo: National Museum of Fine Arts of Cuba<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This last Friday of December, the exhibition Keep on Painting, Peter will open at 4:00 p.m. in the temporary exhibition galleries on the second level of the Cuban Art Building at the National Museum of Fine Arts of Cuba.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4631,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1061,797,1062],"ppma_author":[12],"class_list":["post-4630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-cuba","tag-keep-on-painting-peter","tag-national-museum-of-fine-arts-of-cuba","tag-pedro-alvarez"],"authors":[{"term_id":12,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"daynelis-rodriguez-pena","display_name":"Daynelis Rodr\u00edguez Pe\u00f1a","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\/4630","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=4630"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4633,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4630\/revisions\/4633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4630"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=4630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}