As a tribute to the novelist, playwright and poet Reinaldo Arenas, the XXV Celestino Short Story Prize inaugurated the exhibition of posters “My name is Celestino”, in the gallery of the House of the Young Creator of the Hermanos Saíz Association in Holguin.
After receiving multiple proposals that aspired to be part of the exhibition, the curatorship was in charge of the visual artist and editor Lorena Susel Velázquez Fraga, who together with the team of Ediciones La Luz valued that the illustrations or designs recreate one or several characters or passages of “Celestino antes del alba”, by Arenas.
The inaugural words of “My Name is Celestino” were pronounced by poet and narrator Juan Siam, who after evoking his first encounter with the novel, said, “I have found again the terrible phrases, the authentic pain and natural language, when I look at this new version, multiplied in 27 works of art, of diverse techniques, where each author has appropriated his vision of the story”.
The pieces belong to Cuban artists such as Alain R. Cuba, Alejandro Zaldívar, Ana Laura Rodríguez, Idania Salazar, Aníbal De la Torre, Annia Leyva, Armando Ruiz, Chabeli Farro, Dimanchella, Eli Luzardo, Ernesto Gómez, Frank Alejandro Cuesta, Gabriela Díaz, George Riverón, Graciela Romero, Irina Gil, Jimmy Verdecia, Jorge Luis Cudina, José Manuel Gamayo, Lorena V. F., Massiel Teresa Borges, Patricia Rigali, Ragnar Wilfredo Robas, Ramón Jesús Pérez de la Peña, Rebeca Torres Serrano and Robert Ráez.
Two other guests are added: professor and visual artist Rosa Leticia Leyva Azze and writer Eugenio Marrón Casanova, whose works also dialogue, as the call dictates, with the novel “Celestino antes del alba”, the first book -and the only one published in Cuba- by Reinaldo Arenas.
The visual arts exhibition accompanies the Celestino Award, which on this occasion dedicates its days to the 25th anniversary of the short story “Flora and the Angel”, by Ruben Rodriguez from Holguin, the first winner of the contest; to the 40th anniversary of Julio Cortazar’s death and the 110th anniversary of the birth of the “greatest storyteller”, Onelio Jorge Cardoso. / Aniel Santiesteban García.
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