This is an event worthy of this blog, a dozen graduates of the Academy of Arts San Alejandro in Havana for three decades and some without tripping over fifties in a few years, it was the Expo Johnny Franco (center, with his head in the circle) in the Art Point of Miami. 's character to the left, who do not know but I've sometimes encountered in these environments, coined the phrase "As I had worms in San Alejandro "! Referring to all the graduates of the Academy of Arts in Havana now out of Cuba, especially in Miami, to be" worm "the adjective" official "who left the country. Or am I second in the photo, the lower ; my school cogeneracionales are more dispersed so, these friends often face two or three years graduates before.
The "cowboy" is Pepe Forte, would not have known, the last time we met, precisely another Expo Pepe told me that has a space on the radio and has left the picture only for your personal enjoyment, his brother Fide, designer, arrived late for the photo, to Laura hand, ceramist, I knew when he was in Spain a few months ago, I tripped me from my early years in Miami, has a studio in Little Havana, between Laura and Johnny is Bedia, perhaps the greatest of all and one of the artists Cuba's most important visual, did not know him in school he had already left when I entered the same happened to Homer (the other side of Ty) who had heard mention not being Greek namesake, but because the author apparently did time " San Alejandro "next to Belinda, did not know her when he greeted me for over a quarter of a century since we've seen! but finally I realized, said that all photos posted on facebook and ultimately more right to a great painter Gustavo Acosta who I see frequently in the openings, was kind enough to take the invitation to work, had it not been for him I would have lost tonight, I thought the opening was the following Saturday.
Shortly before leaving I walked Pedro Vizcaino, was part of the street art which contributed to the artistic irreverence of the late eighties in Cuba, and when Fidel went well I stumbled Forte Rafael Lopez Ramos , graduated a couple of years after me, I recently invited and attended the inauguration of an exhibition in which cyclists take part in the Design District, also I stumbled upon leaving with Silvia Dorfman, known to all painters, has organized exhibitions at home and has worked with several galleries. Strange not to see Fernando Garcia and Lourdes Porrata, staring at these events and for a while I do not see Adriano Buergo and Ana Albertina Delgado.
Pepito (Jose Miguel Franco) lives in Argentina and with Gustavo Acosta, Carlos Alberto Garcia (Mexico) and José de los Santos Finale (do not know if still in France) were the group very much in the 4X4 Cuban art scene in the eighties / nineties after Volume 1 (which was Bedia, if I remember correctly, Gory (photographer), Orlando Silvera, Manuel Tomás Gonzalez Daza (in Belize according to latest news), among others) "break the ice" with more contemporary expressions after two or three decades of socialist realism. 4x4 Volume 1 and paved the way for new generations of artists including Art Street and allowed events like the Castle Project Force (EXHIBITIONS at the oldest fort in Havana (XVI century) the Museum of Ceramics, which began to mature artists of great importance today.
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