Editorial Vertical de un Proyecto Horizontal.
I remember Loló de la Torriente in her book "Estudio de las Plásticas en Cuba", capt. VIII "A generation that does not want to" imitate ", but" create ", the movement of painters that breaks out in 1927, of which she says: ..." Our young painters have stopped being simple imitators to become in "investigators" and "creators" ... Seventy years later as a magical horizontal convergence, since that is how man moves to the horizon and the verse and canvas to space, we find ourselves with "Horizontal Project."
Pablo H. is his philosopher to the extent that he has managed to crystallize in some of his unpublished writings a conceptual foundation for the emotions and the plastic arts of a group of current young people who make up the project.The painter says that we are "in a cultural stage alien to the universal" so just to be on the sidelines of exchanges with other tribes or more advanced peoples. " The universal according to Pablo H. must be the living and plethoric coexistence of all the "qualities, experiences and values ??in full exchange and in function of local development in a horizontal sense". But, what is universal? What is horizontality. What is a creator? What is the art? What we mean by "self-taught" academic, Mercado de las Artes, "Eurocentric hegemony of culture" and many other labels that the painter questions and defines to clarify "the horizontality of the project" ...
... Now, according to Pablo H. "the fundamental essence of horizontalism is based on the criterion of freedom for creation from a particular point of view" that is, a plastic vital space where the work and its maker are not born or forge or be valued biased by assumptions or assumptions of style and aesthetics that a hierarchical consensus of academies or commercial have universalized "as measures of beauty or pictorial functionality." Here is the core of the Horizontal Project philosophy ...
PARTICIPANT ARTISTS: Nelson Laguna Jorge Barreiro Luis Abreu Carlos Vázquez Yerandee Durán Eduardo Santana José Salas Alina Suárez Rubén Fernández Roberto Rodríguez Nilo Jerez Luis Oscar Duque Pablo Hernández Augusto C. Bordelois José Hevia Miguel Martín José Lugo Gustavo Gallardo Luis Trápaga Aracely Ramos Orlando Boffill Yimer González Miguel Leal Armando Tejuca Jorge L. Legrá
INVITED Jesús Magán Mena, J. E. Guerrero
