Next Thursday, December 6, 2018 the pocket calendar of Radio Havana Cuba 2019, illustrated with the work of the Cuban sculptor Oscar Luis González, will be presented at the Oswaldo Guayasamín House Museum in Havana.

It is a beautiful sculpture that was placed in the Oswaldo Guayasamín Museum House in Old Havana, when the 95th birthday of the great Ecuadorian artist, born in Quito, the capital of Ecuador, was celebrated on July 6, 1919.

The work, which was donated to the museum by the young Matanzas sculptor, consists of a formidable head made of stone, 95 centimeters high, and the image, a photograph taken also by the sculptor, will bear the signature of Guayasamín and the word CENTENARY.

As always, this little work of art will be published in Madrid thanks to the solidarity of the Culture and International Cooperation Association, chaired by the Spanish Gabriel Navarrete Martínez. And an edition in large size will be delivered next year to the winner of the "Orlando Castellanos" Contest Prize, which awards Radio Havana Cuba during the International Radio and Television Convention, Varadero 2019.

The act of presenting the calendar will be held at the Oswaldo Guayasamín House Museum, directed by Aliana Martínez Rodríguez, at eleven o'clock on Thursday, December 6, 2018, when the 484th anniversary of the founding of the city of Quito will also be celebrated. , Ecuador.

All those attending the ceremony will be given the calendar, which as the City Historian Eusebio Leal Spengler has said, is a small work of art that is carried in the left pocket, which is the heart.

The Cuban writer and journalist Katiuska Blanco, who attended the installation of the sculpture in the Museum, on July 6, 2014, said that "the head of Guayasamín is not made of stone, but of flesh and bone", thanks to the expertise of the young Cuban sculptor Oscar Luis González.

The event, organized by Radio Havana Cuba, the Association of Culture and International Cooperation of Spain and the Oswaldo Guayasamín House Museum, is a tribute to the Painter of Ibero-America in its Centennial and to the City of Havana on the 500th anniversary of its foundation.