On the occasion of International Museum Day the artist Jose Manuel Fors (1956) will open his exhibition “Deslapses” on May 18 at the National Museum of Decorative Arts in the Cuban capital.
The eight pieces created from objects, decorations and belongings of Sweet Maria Loynaz pay homage to the remarkable writer, author of the verses: “In each grain of sand, there is a mountain collapse”, which also served as an inspiration to the visual artist.
“With this exhibition we witness another of the movements in the way in which the artist has historically approached the eternal concerns of man: the incidence of the passage of time and the recovery of memory (intimate, familiar, perceptive). Hundreds of segments from another age and other realities are amalgamated and recombined as the systemic argument of a plot destined to repeat itself ad infinitum”, wrote Isabel María Pérez Pérez, curator of the exhibition together with Rosa María Oyarzábal.
“Landslides” will remain in the National Museum of Decorative Arts of Havana until Friday, September 15 of this year.
“The Museum is context and work space. But it also becomes raw material. These particles that Fors now couples have rested here for decades”, points out Isabel María Pérez. Each one of the pieces, adds the curator, “are now connected, in a polyphony of shipwrecks, heterogeneous and irreversible.”
Graduated from the San Alejandro Art Academy in 1976, José Manuel Fors is considered one of the most influential living artists on the national scene. member of the legendary Volume IFors is one of the obligatory referents of the art created in Cuba since the middle of the last century.
A pioneer in the widespread use of photography and experimentation in the darkroom, the work of this artist has been present in the most prominent museums and competitions worldwide. In 2016 he received the National Prize for Plastic Arts.
