The exhibition "1961", by visual artist Losvani Garcia Perez, is currently on display at El Zaguan gallery of the Cuban Cultural Heritage Fund (FCBC) of the Holguin branch, as part of the activities of the Cuban Culture Week, which lasts until the 20th, reported Vanessa Pernia Arias, journalist of the Cuban News Agency.
Dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the Literacy Campaign throughout the country -one of the most important cultural events after the triumph of the Revolution in 1959- and to the 60th anniversary of the historic speech "Words to the Intellectuals" by Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz, the exhibition is made up of 20 works that go through different poetics of the fine arts.
Danilo Lopez Garces, curator and museographer of this exhibition, in his opening words highlighted the lantern as the recurring object through which the series passes, a kind of allegory to the national context that invites to preserve the history and memory of the country.
The exhibition "1961" will remain on display for a month with the purpose of showing the public a part of national history, as important as other processes lived in the prelude to the triumphant Cuban Revolution, where knowing how to read and write was a popular national offering at the beginning of the 1960s.
López Garcés added that these iconic lanterns lit the spark of thought of hard-working laborers exhausted from daytime chores, constituting paths of light in fields and cities to mythologize the epic of the cultural revolution conceived in Cuba.
This space also highlighted the artist's work as an art instructor of the Casas de Cultura System, and the transcendence of his knowledge to several generations of amateurs.
The national union from all fronts was one of the priorities after the revolutionary triumph of 1959, especially from the cultural emancipation, which would later gain strength with the deployment throughout the island of the Literacy Campaign in 1961.