Collective exhibition female 60 for the 500

Plásticas y Diseño located in Luz y Oficios, Old Havana, will host, until next April 2, the collective exhibition 60 for the 500. Organized to mark International Women's Day, the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution and the five Centuries of Havana, the exhibition offers an extensive tour of the feminine work within Cuban engraving of all times.

With curatorship of María Teresa González Álvarez, Oscar Giró Oliva, Luis Lamothe Duribe and Chucho Romeu, 60 for the 500 brings together pieces of established artists or exponents of the new generations, managers, mostly, their own and identifiable poetics. The exhibition is opened by significant artists such as Antonia Eiriz, Belkis Ayón, Flora Fong, Sandra Ramos, Zaida del Río and Lesbia Vent Dumois, to which exponents are also recognized in the most current Cuban visual panorama, including Diana Balboa, Dania Fleites , Isavel Gimeno, Anyelmaidelín Calzadilla and the sisters Yamilis and Jacqueline Brito Jorge, or others, such as Janette Brossard, Martha Jiménez, Vivian Lozano or Tamara Campo, who have also performed successfully in the fields of creation, teaching and research .

The present technical range is broad and covers all the traditional procedures of the stamp. However, we find pieces that resort to experimentation with matrices and the incorporation of non-conventional materials, or that link engraving with installation and sculpture (see the proposals of Irina Cepero, Jenny Hernández Carbó, Liudmila López and Leonor Menes) , as well as two woodcuts, with the signatures of Odeibys Gato and Dania Fleites, which show the interest of some current curators for showing matrices of engravings as bas-reliefs or sculptural pieces.

As for the subjects, abound the still lifes, the landscapes and the treatment of the abstraction, of the human body and of the popular religiosity. There are also pieces with an evident gender focus; section in which there are two magnificent serigraphs by Lisbeth Corvo Alderete, whose poetics deserve a deeper analysis due to its technical quality and visual impact.

Source: Maikel José Rodríguez Calviño, La Jiribilla
Editor: Digital Writing Havana 500