He Graphic humorist Manuel Hernández Valdés He received this Wednesday in Havana the National Award for Plastic Arts.
This is the recognition of your rhigh artistic career and its contribution to Cuban cultural heritage. The prize was announced last March.
Upon receiving the prize, the artist said that His generation “had to learn by doing. We are like collective self -taught. I am still an amateur that I learn from everything. For me it is an honor. The main prize is to have been useful and have done a job that people appreciate. ”
The jury highlighted the work “Integral and paradigmatic” of Hernández, who has artistically interpreted the imaginary of the Cuban peasantry in his sculptures, ceramics and cartoons.
Throughout his career, HErnández has deserved numerous awards, including the José Martí National Journalism Award in 2001, the National Humor Award in 2006 and the Pablo Picasso Medal, awarded by the Unesco World Council in 1997.
Their ceramic pieces have been exhibited in important cultural spacessuch as the National Museum of Fine Arts and the Ceramic Museum of Cuba and its cartoons or drawings have been published in national state media pages such as the magazine Bohemiaand the newspapers Rebel youth and Granma.
The award was given to the 82 -year -old artist In a ceremony held at the National Museum of Fine Arts, Within the framework of the activities of the 24th edition of the International Biennial of Graphic Humor.
The International Biennial of Graphic Humor develops a program of activities mainly in its usual headquarters, the town of San Antonio de los Baños, in the province of Artemis.
The National Plastic Arts Award was established in 1994when he distinguished the work of designer Raúl Martínez. Since then he has rewarded diverse creators such as the Rita Longa sculpture, the photographers Raúl Corrales and Ernesto Fernández, or the painters Lesbia Vent Dumois, Julio Girona, Antonio Vidal and Roberto Favelo, among others.
EFE/ONCUBA.
