• Submitted by: manso
• Arts and Culture
• 06 / 05 / 2011

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By: Mary Luz Borrego. The young painter from Trinidad, in the Cuban province of Sancti Spíritus, Yudit Vidal Faife, is currently holding one of her paintings exhibited in the Magnificat Art Gallery, in Berlin, as part of the Art and Prison project, where another one of her pieces will be auctioned for the benefit of the prisons.

Yudit is also involved with two paintings in the DIN A4 Project, by the Dutch artist Ernst Kraft, who is holding an itinerant exhibition of pieces in a A4 format aiming to join several artistic tendencies that he is showing around different cities in the world.

“Another important event is the one organized by the site Quinta Avenida.it, which belongs to an Italian, who is dedicated to promoting Cuban culture in his country and in the world in order to change the wrongful vision people have about Cuba. There is soon to be an exhibition in Italy to which I have been invited,” pointed out the creator.

Yudit Vidal Faire has held several exhibitions in national and international galleries, and some of her paintings are in the only Cuban art museum outside of Cuba, created in Wien by Maximilian Reiss, during the final years of the past decade.

“In the year 2008 I travelled to Europe to show my work in the Polad-Hardouin gallery in Paris and from there I was invited to Luxembourg to work for a month with children who have a certain inclination towards art. This inspired me so much that by my return to Cuba I presented a project to the Tristá Gallert, from the Preservers Office. They gave me their support and I started a similar idea in the Clodomira Acosta kindergarten center, in Trinidad. From there came out two exhibitions: one of them for Pedagogy 2011 and the other one for the Havana International Book Festival, with paintings by me and by the children.”

Yudit has recently been named Universal Peace Ambassador and she is a Visual Arts Graduate in the restoration and preservation of physical goods profile. This painter has also earned some awards in national salons and she has dedicated herself completely to research and to the design of several books in Cuba and abroad.

“We live in a colonial, tourist city that is frequently visited. Here come also people to look for talents. I was discovered by some gallery owners, one from the Netherlands, another one from France. My trips have been through the National Visual Arts Council, they know my work, I have always had the support from the institutions,” she pointed out.

“I also have my restoration workshop in another site, I have made important and symbolic restorations; for example, that of the plans for the Buena Vista sugar mill, made by Francisco Lavallé, one of the most important sugar plantations owners during colonial times in Cuba. I specialized in documents, but that part of my work is less known.”

“I am also a researcher, I was recognized for my work on iron forge in Trinidad during the second half of the 18th century and mural painting in the village. Also, I don´t paint Trinidad just to make a simple colonial landscape, but as a call to rescue traditional aspects, for the preservation of the city, of our heritage treasure,” she commented.

“I am not an artist who paints in order to sell, nor am I a slave of the art market. I paint whatever I lake to paint, whether it is sold or not is relative. It is frequently sold and I thank God for the fact that I am able to live of what I sell, but commercialization hasn´t got a hold on me and I am not a slave to it. I make my own are and I set its price. I pray that the art that it is sold is really art and not commercial painting,” stated finally the creator.

Source: Cubarte