Visual Arts in Las Tunas, Cuba
Many consider Las Tunas the mecca of the national sculpture movement. Encounters between the most illustrious sculptors of the Revolutionary Period were held here, resulting in the agreement of donating pieces to embellish the province. This led to the Sculpture movement’s posterior boom.
On June 25, 1982, the now late Cuban sculptor Rita Longa inaugurated in Las Tunas the first sculpture museum-workshop in the country to show what the plastic artists were doing back then.
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The Antilles Fountain
This sculpture has become the symbol of the city. It belongs to the sculptor Rita Longa Arostegui and was inaugurated in 1977. This piece symbolizes the legend of the Cacique Jaias, told by the Colon’s chronicler, Pedro de Angleria, which narrates the birth of the Antilles. Four connected figures, supported with difficult balance on aquatic plants, hold the pumpkin, symbol of the myth.
“Rita Longa” Sculpture Biennial
This is an event that takes place every two years to keep the city’s sculptor tradition alive. Through several practical workshops, numerous artistic pieces are created to embellish the city, parks and plazas. The artists participate in this event and donate their work to put it in different spots of the city, as a way of making each one of the inhabitants their accomplices. This is just one more of the reasons why Las Tunas is known as the Cuban Capital of Sculpture.
The Fayad Jamis Art Gallery
The Fayad Jamis Art Gallery has gathered multiple generations of artists who have bequeathed a genuine art, committed to critical values for over 25 years. It is located in the historical center of the Las Tunas City, more specifically 296 Francisco Varona Street, on the corner of Angel Guardia Street and closely related to the Cuban Fund for Cultural Property, which sponsors, promotes and markets the plastic arts.
Among the most important expositions, you can admire "Abstractions" collateral to the "The Crusade” Project, "Immersion III" and personal exhibitions of local artists where graphic tradition plays an important role. In the main hall, you can find works of members of National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba and of the Hermanos Saiz Association.
Gallery Sculpture Workshop Rita Longa, unique in Cuba
A space to create, to live, to feel the art. A place where you can make your own work appear as magic in your hands, and appreciate how, from children to adults, they model their own sculpture in the art of crafts.
The Rita Longa Gallery, in Las Tunas, brings together Cuba's largest collection of small format sculptures. In it, works of Cuban artists of the stature of Rita Longa, Sergio Martínez, José A. Diaz Peláez, Alberto Lescay, Angel Iñigo, Herminio Escalona, Rafael Ferrero, Armando Echevarria, Rogelio Ricardo, among others.