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• 02 / 04 / 2010

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Photographer Alex Castro is back with his exhibition Arte y Moda (Art and Fashion), this time at Havana’s Oasis Panorama Hotel. It was inaugurated on January 22 and will be opened to the public until March 21.

The artist has already presented this year exhibitions like 83 Motives (83 Reasons), on the occasion of the birthday of his father, Revolution leader Fidel Castro, and Cuatro pinceles y un lente (Four brushes and a lens), with special emphasis in seascapes, which were on display at the Hotel Nacional de Cuba and the Montehabana Apartment Hotel, respectively.

Now he proposes an idea that emerged a few years ago as a tribute to the 95th anniversary of the founding of Havana’s Museum of Fine Arts.

Taking a selection of 20 of the pieces exhibited there, corresponding to celebrated Cuban painters (all of them deceased), Alex invited the same amount of designers so each of them poured the feelings the painting he selected transmitted to him into the into the world of fashion.

This process was followed by the selection of 20 models to defend the designs and make a brief representation on the runway of what creators wanted to express. Then, the photographic exhibition now opened to the public was prepared.

Among pieces on exhibit we find La dama del Lago, by Juan Jorge Peoli; Marina, by Valentín Sanz; Figura de dama, by Federico Beltrán; and Tabla de señales aéreas no. 25, by Dolores Soldevilla. Also part of the exhibition are La promesa, by Leopoldo Romañach; La niña de los globos, by José Mijares; Beatas, by Fidelio Ponce de León; Retrato de Flora no. 23, by René Portocarrero; Naturaleza muerta con piña, by Amelia Peláez; and many others.

The designers involved in the Art and Fashion exhibition, and with the project in general named after it, are Ismael de la Caridad, Rosa Díaz, José Luis González, Carmen Fiol, Lucía Fernández and Mario Freixas. Nachy Carmona, Jacqueline Fumero, Proyecto Guayza, Otto Chaviano, Pavel López and Guido Asenjo, Salomé Morales, Yandi & Anayce, Proyecto Arteylla, Oscar de la Portilla, Alaín Marzán, Roly Rius, Ileana Jiménez and Sandra de Huelbes, are also participating.

The photographic collection has the peculiarity of being divided in twos: one painting with the photo of the design, and a smaller one with the original work to facilitate its identification.

In his images, the artist inserts models in the classic paintings, wearing the outfits prepared by designers.

As part of this exhibition and of a project that the Oasis Panorama Hotel has begun to develop for the promotion of Cuba’s contemporary plastic arts, Alex Castro decorated suite 1004 with a selection of seascapes photographed by him and reflected on canvas.

The hotel has already entrusted other artists from the archipelago with the task of decorating the rest of the rooms in that floor, each of whom, in turn, will give a name to the room they will ornament.

This idea is also aimed at continuing the artistic line that the hotel has maintained since its inauguration, which occupies an avant-garde position in the promotion of Cuban art.

Source: Cubanow.net