Regino Boti’s exhibition opens in Havana

Havana, Oct 20 (Prensa Latina) The Villena Hall of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (Uneac) will host, honoring the Day of Culture from today, an exhibition of works done by Cuban poet and painter Regino Boti, under the title "Watercolors, drawings and pastries".

October 20, 2023
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The exhibition represents a wide-ranging visual production of the man who was also a renowned essayist and pedagogue, born in the easternmost part of Cuba’s provinces.

More than 30 works form the exhibition “Watercolors, drawings and Pastries”, which constitutes a selection of paintings by Boti, an intellectual cnsidered as one of the most important literary voices of the early 20th century in Cuba. The production of paintings by this artist, treasures a plentiful and almost unknown plastic activity developed in parallel to his literature, according to art critic Jorge Núñez Motes.

In the words written in the exhibition catalog, Núñez Motes emphasizes that Boti, when he names or paints a place, a geographical feature, or a building, he does it to protect, keep and preserve it.

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