Darwin Estacio Martinez

With the collateral collective sample "Agua sallada", artists from Manzanillo participate in the XIII Biennial of Havana, the largest exposition space and confluence of the visual arts in Cuba that takes place until May 12 in the capital of the Caribbean archipelago. In the "happening" style due to the fleeting nature of the exhibition, most of the participating Manzanillo artists met under the same title in a collective exhibition at the Hispanocubano Cultural Center in 2014, including: Alejandro Campins, Elizabet Cerviño, Darwin Estacio, Yeremy Guerra, Luis E. Lopez-Chávez, Yornel Martínez, Michel Pérez "Pollo" and José E. Ya

The researcher, historian, art critic and visual artist Carlos Rodolfo Escala Fernández, also from Manzanillo, was in charge of the curatorship of the exhibition that was exhibited in an inhabited house at the bottom of the iconic sanctuary of the Virgen de Regla in Havana's neighborhood. It is named after the deity. Heterogeneous and polysemic the exhibition exhibited painting, installation, videoart, cast sketches in concrete, serigraphy, having as leitmotiv the manzanillero origin, marked by the proximity of the sea, the musical influence and many other identity symbols of the territory.

In the exhibition, although with different manifestations of the visual arts, ¨convergen the plurality and relevance of references marked by a critical reception, inquisitive, of the universal tradition, the extinct socialist field, the avatars and practices of everyday life, Cubanness " pedestre ", and the post, neo and hypermodern ravings of the contemporary, which make them owners of a vast cultural capital, achieved with determination, whose tools they use in research, the process, the creative act and its sequels," Escala Fernández said. in the opening.

The artists took advantage of the occasion to present the event project "Saltwater", to be held in October 2020 in Manzanillo, in order to establish a dialogue between the graduate colleagues of the Higher Institute of Art who maintain a relevant work in the context of art Cuban contemporary with those who remain creating in the terroir, invigorate the plastic arts and culture in general for these lares and pay homage to Julio Girona Fernández and José A. Rosabal Fajardo.