{"id":4740,"date":"2026-01-27T07:54:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T11:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/?p=4740"},"modified":"2026-01-27T00:55:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T04:55:31","slug":"entre-blow-y-flow-a-jazz-provocation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/entre-blow-y-flow-a-jazz-provocation-27012026\/","title":{"rendered":"Entre Blow y Flow: A Jazz Provocation"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Visual Artists Association of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (Uneac) has opened the exhibition Entre blow y flow<\/strong><\/em> as part of the 41st edition of the International Jazz Plaza Festival 2026.<\/p>\n

Running from Sunday, January 25, through February 1, the exhibition presents audiences with a highly personal vision by 19 artists from different generations, each inspired by a single jazz piece. It perhaps alludes to a familiar truth: that creators often find their deepest inspiration while listening to music, noted Janette Brossard, president of Uneac\u2019s Visual Artists Association.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany of the works we create contain something of that experience, even if only in the colors,\u201d Brossard explained. \u201cIn this case, we wanted to spark the creation of a concrete image starting from a jazz piece. I think it is a very beautiful exhibition, which will later travel to the Villena Hall.\u201d Brossard curated Entre blow y flow<\/em> together with Ana Beatriz Almeida, a specialist at the Villa Manuela Gallery.<\/p>\n

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The exhibition brings together works by leading visual artists such as Frank Mart\u00ednez, Zaida del R\u00edo, Andy Rivero, Carlos del Toro, and Manuel L\u00f3pez Oliva, along with Ibrahim Miranda, Lisette Sol\u00f3rzano, Enrique B\u00e1ster, Adri\u00e1n Socorro, Ramiro Zardoyas, \u00c1ngel Ram\u00edrez, Harold L\u00f3pez, Reinaldo Cid, Julia Vald\u00e9s, and Brossard herself.<\/p>\n

Another participating painter, Jos\u00e9 Omar Torres, explained that his piece\u2014an acrylic on cardboard\u2014is based on a work by his former teacher and classmate at the National Art School, maestro Joaqu\u00edn Betancourt, titled Sue\u00f1os del peque\u00f1o Quin<\/em>.<\/p>\n

For her part, Diana Balboa selected, from among several possibilities, a piece by Pablo Men\u00e9ndez, an outstanding musician, a leading figure in Cuban jazz, and director of the group Mezcla. In him, she highlights \u201ca man who is infinite in the way he approaches art and creation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her resulting work is a collograph that incorporates a collage of the musical score for the melody Men\u00e9ndez himself sent her. At the same time, it reflects her conviction\u2014shaped by many years of close collaboration with singer-songwriter Sara Gonz\u00e1lez\u2014that image and music must always go hand in hand.<\/p>\n

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Within this same creative dialogue, where visual arts and music converge, Alejandro Lescay not only reveals a deep personal affinity with music\u2014his brothers are jazz musicians\u2014but also drew inspiration from the founder of the Jazz Plaza Festival, Bobby Carcass\u00e9s, to create a mixed-media piece based on the work Ari\u00e1n<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Using figuration through scratchboard techniques alongside abstraction, Lescay explained, he reinterpreted an instrumental piece by imagining Ari\u00e1n as a woman, since Carcass\u00e9s has never revealed the true meaning behind the name.<\/p>\n

Improvisation, contemporary art, and a rich, diverse visual language form the leitmotif of this collective exhibition. The works draw explicitly and unapologetically from music\u2014some guided by blow, others by flow, and still others by both. In every case, the artists find in each session a reason to reframe jazz within another tangible, visible space: that of the visual arts.<\/p>\n

Translated by Luis E. Amador Dominguez<\/p>\n

Photos: Agencia Cubana de Noticias<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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