Guantánamo- After the inauguration at the UNEAC’s La Celosía Gallery of the exhibition La Anunciación (The Annunciation), its author, Agustín Villafaña, a well-known Guantanamo cartoonist, ceramist, engraver, designer and professor, received the Hermandad Distinction for his meritorious creative, community and pedagogical work, as well as for exalting the most authentic traditions of his native Yateras Municipality.
The highest recognition conferred by the Provincial Directorate of Culture in Guantánamo, was given by the provincial director of Culture, Yoelvys Labañino López, together with Ury Rodríguez Urgellés, president of the UNEAC Committee at the same level.
For his part the visual artist Villafaña thanked this significant recognition and also expressed the pride of being originally from this region of the country, whose essences, he said, he incorporates into his artistic work.
The exhibition by the master of visual arts Agustín Villafaña Rodríguez was inaugurated in the La Celosía Gallery of the Provincial Committee of the UNEAC in Guantanamo, an exhibition made up of thirty drawings, which make up three of his paintings series that becomes a tribute to his teacher Antonia Eiriz who was trainer of several generations of the National School of Art.
In his words to the catalogue, specialist Vilmeidy Bombalé Laborde notes that this exhibition displays the aesthetic investigations of the master Villafaña, worked with the technique of drawing on cardboard, in which grays, neutrals, high contrasts and chromatization flow within the same black and white, which make possible the explicit power of the composition of his works.
