Eleven Cuban serigraphs, are presently on display at Cathedral Square Gallery, 260 Dauphin Street as part of Mobile’s Cuban Week. The works,which many of my friends will recognize as normally residing on the walls of my apartment, will be on display until April 6. Hours are from 10 am to 4 pm, Monday to Friday. This is a tiny display and centers on the modern art that I like, but it's a chance to see some notable Cuban artists such as Alfredo Sosabravo and Raul Martinez and other samples of the vaunted style that has come to symbolize Cuban graphics. The corpus of Alfredo Sosabravo's work, one of Cuba’s most highly decorated artists, spans the range of artistic endeavor - oil paintings, engraving, ceramics, and glass. He is presently quite in vogue with his oil painting fetching hundreds of thousands of dollars worldwide. On display will be five Sosabravo works: "Peces de Feria", "Arbol de Juguetes", "Naturaleza con Velador", "Composicion de Botellas Azules", and "Torre de Babel".
In 1959, Raul Martinez began working with a camera and became a photographer for Castro's newspaper, La Revolucion. During the 1960s, Martinez, who had been part of a noted abstract expressionist group during the Batista regime of the 1950s, used historical propaganda photographs of Castro and Ché Guevara in Pop Art style. He encouraged young photographers as Cuba began to nurture the arts within the context of politics and that by living in agreement with socialist tenets art was transformed into a "political act." Martinez’ noted poster of "El Che" will be on display.
Call 694-0278 for more information.
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