The exhibition is located at the Cuban Art Building, and will close at 2:00 p.m., local time, in the Museum’s theater hall, with a special appearance by poet Nancy Morejón, National Literature Prize winner (2001), according to the source on social networks.

The Museum also informed that the documentary “Bread with Guava, a Happy Life,” by director Daniel Diez Jr. will premier on the occassion.

Maestro Mendive (Havana, 1944) is one of the leading figures of Cuban art at an international level.

His work has been exhibited at the Venice, São Paulo and Havana biennials, at the Paris Museum of Modern Art, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the Bronx Museum of the Arts, among other places.

This first major retrospective of his works in Cuba, sponsored by the Mendive Art Project to celebrate the 80th birthday of this outstanding artist, a recipient of the National Art Award in 2001.

The exhibition consists of nearly 100 pieces that bring together diverse genres, including painting, sculpture, installation, video and performance.

The exhibition displays pieces from Mendive’s early academic period as a student as well as later experiences in the 1970s, when he delved into Yoruba myths from Africa and folk oral legends.

A few months ago, at the opening of this retrospective, engraver Lesbia Vent Dumois, National Art Award of 2019, said that Maestro Mendive painting of human bodies adds to his search of a cosmogony of sound, symbol and memory.

His famous live performances dignify the mestizo, the poetry, the magic of the Caribbean, but it is Africa that nourishes and shakes him, Vent Dumois said at the time.

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