When we are so close to a change of the century and, at the same time, millennium, when it seems that the next few years will be so close to Science Fiction that it will no longer be so, when the human being is sometimes far from being human. .. In short, when material almost always nullifies the spiritual, comforts us, gratifies and encourages us to continue in our daily effort to verify that Art - Art with capital letters this art that is born of feeling, that grows with experimentation, that hurts of the sincere and, above all, that is achieved with effort and work, still exists, is still created and still moves.
Enjoy, have fun in the Antilles, enjoy the Caribbean is so easy: its light, its color, its sun, its people, its music ... everything invites us to pleasure, indolence, easy and unbridled life. Knowing the Antilles is another thing. Only through your soul, your anxieties, the passion of your feelings can we get to know them.
Cuba is so far away and at the same time so close, it is so trunk of our roots but it grows so high, its art is so similar but at the same time so different, it is so European but so American that contemplating it, feeling it, is the best driver to recover the ties that always united us to the Pearl of the Caribbean.
Today prestige undertakes with illusion a new experience, we want through this Art Exhibition (with capital letters), we add to the project of a group of artists that create something real, suffered, elaborated almost miraculously. We want to let our clients and friends know the feeling of a people that meant so much to Catalonia. A town of which we feel an indivisible part and that today is eager for reunion and understanding.
Thank you for your invaluable attention, PRESTIGE
Moving 100 works of art, of 23 Cuban artists (250 Kg. Of weight) thousands of kilometers away in the belly of an airplane, at more than 6,000 meters high and 42 degrees below zero, is a challenge. If we add to all this that each piece was made by hand (as the old masters of painting did), that is, from the racks to the preparation of the fabrics, then the work as a whole becomes much more interesting, curious and only.
But it turns out that for Horizontal Project, an association that has more than 40 Cuban visual artists, based in Havana, that has in its curriculum exhibitions in Colombia, Portugal, USA, France ... and numerous national and international awards of its members , the most painful thing would be to deprive the Catalan people of this unique opportunity to see a fragment of contemporary Cuban art, just a few months from the end of the millennium.
And it was that for us it was a debt and a challenge. «Debt» because both peoples have much in common, both, that our roots come from the peninsula, and «Reto» because Catalan is very demanding but at the same time anxious about Cuban culture.
It is an honor that «Prestige» opens its doors to Horizontal Project, to Cuban culture and to this meeting between two peoples, which despite time and distance, have so much in common.
Participants: Orlando Bofill Hernández Eduardo Valladares Pablo H., Augusto Bordelois Yimer González Alina S. A., José R. Salas José Lugo Jorge Barreiro Eduardo Santana Nilo Jerez Rubén Fernández Jorge Luis Legrá Carlos Vega Carlos Vázquez Miguel Angel Matos Alberto A. Biote Mario Enrrique Matos Miguel Leal Aracelys Ramos Nelson Laguna Alexis Marange Gustavo Gallardo Luis Trápaga Jesús Naon (invitado)
