there is a wonderful mural behind us
which was created by almost 100 artists
tell us a little bit about the history
of this mural it’s the collective mural
of the salon de me of 1967 the salon de
may was a Parisian institution that was
born in night in May 1945 just after the
liberation of Paris it grouped together
the best artists of the European scene
thus an older male artists were all
invited officially by the Revolutionary
Government to show their works in Havana
and then they would show them in Paris
afterwards and what happened while they
were there they produced this
extraordinary mural over one night and
each had a little sector then for those
who know you know the artists of that
period you can recognize how Martinez
and Jacques monavie and Caesar and
Wilfred olam the circle in the middle
and as we you know go down the spiral
the number 26 is left blank and number
26 was Fidel Castro because his movement
was the one of July 26 so that his say
that’s his sacred number but he never
had the time to come and visit in the
year after in 68 this mural went to
Paris but that’s may 68 so the show
opened and there was riot in the street
on his Paris may 68 and it closed down
and so actually it was only seeing three
or four hours outside of Cuba on its
40-year existence one of the things we
hear about Cuba under the communist
system is that their limits placed on
the freedom of expression how has this
affected the content of the artwork
created post 1959 during the revolution
during the first year of the artists
like embrace the revolution it was a
beautiful movement to embrace I mean
this was you know freedom getting rid of
a dictatorship Fidel himself always said
our enemies is imperialism and
capitalism not abstract art he was smart
enough to know that an abstract painting
would not cause you know that fall of
his regime on the other hand in the 70s
sort of crack down a little bit harder
but mostly on literature and cinema but
in the 80s and 90s and also due to the
collapse of the Soviet bloc and the
collapse of the Cuban economy as a
consequence there is a new school or
thought or we have thought of Cuban
artists to be very critical of the
current state of affairs there have been
cases of censorship they are documented
their been documented in the catalogue
the artists are very critical of the
situation and one will notice this where
you have a detector of ideology where
you have the island represented with
cement blocks it cell block awards
embargo what do you hope to accomplish
with this exhibition Cuba is not just a
land of beaches it’s also very very
special country with a rich history and
we think that this you know exhibition
should serve in revealing this history
in a better way thank you so much for
your time it’s been a great pleasure to
meet you in to hear about the exhibit in
detail well thank you my pleasure
which was created by almost 100 artists
tell us a little bit about the history
of this mural it’s the collective mural
of the salon de me of 1967 the salon de
may was a Parisian institution that was
born in night in May 1945 just after the
liberation of Paris it grouped together
the best artists of the European scene
thus an older male artists were all
invited officially by the Revolutionary
Government to show their works in Havana
and then they would show them in Paris
afterwards and what happened while they
were there they produced this
extraordinary mural over one night and
each had a little sector then for those
who know you know the artists of that
period you can recognize how Martinez
and Jacques monavie and Caesar and
Wilfred olam the circle in the middle
and as we you know go down the spiral
the number 26 is left blank and number
26 was Fidel Castro because his movement
was the one of July 26 so that his say
that’s his sacred number but he never
had the time to come and visit in the
year after in 68 this mural went to
Paris but that’s may 68 so the show
opened and there was riot in the street
on his Paris may 68 and it closed down
and so actually it was only seeing three
or four hours outside of Cuba on its
40-year existence one of the things we
hear about Cuba under the communist
system is that their limits placed on
the freedom of expression how has this
affected the content of the artwork
created post 1959 during the revolution
during the first year of the artists
like embrace the revolution it was a
beautiful movement to embrace I mean
this was you know freedom getting rid of
a dictatorship Fidel himself always said
our enemies is imperialism and
capitalism not abstract art he was smart
enough to know that an abstract painting
would not cause you know that fall of
his regime on the other hand in the 70s
sort of crack down a little bit harder
but mostly on literature and cinema but
in the 80s and 90s and also due to the
collapse of the Soviet bloc and the
collapse of the Cuban economy as a
consequence there is a new school or
thought or we have thought of Cuban
artists to be very critical of the
current state of affairs there have been
cases of censorship they are documented
their been documented in the catalogue
the artists are very critical of the
situation and one will notice this where
you have a detector of ideology where
you have the island represented with
cement blocks it cell block awards
embargo what do you hope to accomplish
with this exhibition Cuba is not just a
land of beaches it’s also very very
special country with a rich history and
we think that this you know exhibition
should serve in revealing this history
in a better way thank you so much for
your time it’s been a great pleasure to
meet you in to hear about the exhibit in
detail well thank you my pleasure
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