Plastic artists Ángel Laborde Wilson and Humberto Guerra Fernández, who developed extensive work in the field, recently died in Cuba, according to official media on the island.
Born in Guantánamo, Laborde died this Monday in that province at the age of 80. He began his studies in 1962 at the National School of Art in Havana and upon graduating in 1967 he became one of the first graduates of that center, according to a note Cuban News Agency (ACN).
The beloved visual artist Ángel Laborde Wilson died in his native Guantanamo.
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At that time he coincided with other Cuban creators, including the National Plastic Arts Awards, Nelson Domínguez and Ever Fonseca. With the latter he was a member of the Grupo Antillano between 1975 and 1985, in which he was admired for his “technical mastery and indisputable seal,” the newspaper adds.
He also ventured into sculpture and ceramics, a specialty in which he received a postgraduate degree in the former Republic of Czechoslovakia, and which later helped him to form the faculty of the San Alejandro Academy in Havana.
Laborde Wilson was also known as the conch painter and unique exponent of creative spiralism.
«The shape of the snail, always in ascending movement, became in all these years his spiritual and creative philosophy, which delineates by synthesizing shapes, from expressiveness in the strokes and contrasts of temperate colors inspired, in search of balance, in the golden or logarithmic spiral, coming from geometry and described as important in the history of art”, highlights the ACN.
Several of his pieces make up collections in Cuba and abroad. He deserved important awards and public recognition.
On the other hand, from Pinar del Río the death this Sunday of Guerra Fernández, a prominent ceramicist, plastic artist, narrator and founder of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (Uneac) was reported.
Fur is also the founder of the Pinar del Río branch of the Cuban Association of Artisans and Artists (Acaa). He was trained at the Provincial Art School of that territory, where he later worked as a professor specializing in ceramics.
He participated in several exhibitions and throughout his career he was recognized with various awards. Thanks to his talent, he was selected as a jury in various plastic arts salons.
His death was lamented by the prominent plastic artist Pedro Pablo Oliva, who considered him “the best of open books, the incarnation of rebellion; a man who does not age, owner of beauty and of all times », in a message posted on his studio’s Facebook profile.
In the same social network, the poet, narrator and playwright from Pinar del Río Nelson Simón dedicated heartfelt words to whom he considers “one of our sharpest intellectuals. Man of friends, of coherence, of definitions».
Guerra Fernández’s drawings, according to the Facebook profile of the Fondo de Bienes Culturales (FBC), highlighted a figuration that “denotes a rigorous study of composition, with a predominance of drawing and sinuous lines. He works the human figure from an asexual and anonymous, stylized design, in the concretion of a personal and intimate universe».
The works of the late vueltabajero creator are in public and private collections in various countries, including France, Spain and the United States.
