Artist Villanueva opens abstract exhibition in Havana

Havana, 23 November (Prensa Latina) The personal exhibition of Cuban artist Ernesto Villanueva, entitled Last Garden, Same Summer, will be on display from today until 23 February at the Padre Félix Varela Cultural Centre in Havana.

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The exhibition is part of the Collateral Programme of the 15th Havana Biennial and consists of 12 works, including a 20-metre long mural.

It also includes a light sculpture on the façade, created in collaboration with sculptor Douglas Lucas, and an audiovisual by director Arturo Sotto, which documents the memory of the creative process of the works.

According to Niurka Fanego, curator of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Cuba, this is a compendium of the different ways in which the artist explores different supports, chromatic intensities and dimensions.

Through this exhibition, which will be inaugurated this Saturday, Villanueva also deciphers his essentially pictorial nature, and in this artistic exercise the flowers take on different meanings.

For Fanego, his abstract experiments are a feast for the eyes, a celebration of life, nature and art.

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