Yahagi is one of the artists invited to the 15th Havana Biennial, which opened on November 15 and will run through February 28, 2025, the Japanese embassy in Cuba reported.
Last Thursday, the Japanese creator delivered an origami workshop arising much satisfaction from Cuban participants, mostly women, who learned the basics of techniques to make paper cranes, the diplomatic mission indicated.
In fact, the exhibition Messengers of Heaven features cranes as the main element, a symbol of today’s elusive peace and a recurring motif in Yahagi’s work.
The show mainly consists of a number of large of metal cages housing the fragile paper birds, sprawling all over the walls of one of the exhibition rooms at the Lombillo Palace in Old Havana.
The experienced creator Ryuichi Yahagi (Kawasaki, 1967) currently resides in Mexico and also works as a professor and researcher.
His work covers different manifestations, such as sculpture, photography, painting and installations.
During the 15th Havana Biennial, the TURN project, from the University of the Arts in Tokyo, developed exchanges with local children and adolescents, in the gardens of s the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba.
Also from Japan, artist Motoki Watanabe displayed some handicraft techniques used in the making of masks and lectured on the importance of living in a society where inclusion and harmony prevail.
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