Guantanamo.- The institutional profile on the Facebook social network of the Provincial Council of Plastic Arts in Guantánamo announced that after the inauguration of the 25th José Vázquez Pubillones Visual Arts Contest in the Art Gallery of the Salcines Palace, the award ceremony of this contest took place, in which the local creator Alejandro Padilla Moplaisi was the winner with the work entitled “El Cauce” (The riverbed).
Likewise, the publication specifies that the jury of this Provincial Contest awarded the Guantanamo creator Alejandro Padilla Moplaisi, based on a rigorous selection in accordance with the existence of a harmonious balance between the content and the form of the work, as well as with the aesthetic value of the piece in which its author managed to show his argument with skill and creativity.
The competition’s evaluation committee also awarded mentions to the works: ” Tríptico Triángulo” (I,III,IV Triangle Triptych I,III,IV), by George Pérez González; “Tríptico”, (Triptych), belonging to the series: “Espuelas”, by the young photographer Ángel Terrero Sánchez; as well as to “El Arca” (The Ark), created by Ángel Íñigo Pérez; and to “El Festín del elegido” (The Feast of the Chosen One), by Ernesto Cuesta Esteris, together with the untitled piece, by the visual artist Alexander Beatón Galano.
On this occasion, the jury was made up of the Doctor of Sciences and professor of Art History at the University of Oriente, Tania García Lescaille; the specialist of the Provincial Council of Plastic Arts of Santiago de Cuba, Mariola Jiménez Núñez, and the visual artist and member of the UNEAC in Guantánamo, Diorges Gamboa Sánchez.
The exhibition of the 25th José Vázquez Pubillones Visual Arts Contest is displayed at the Palacio Salcines Gallery in this eastern city, and brings together more than twenty works, including installations, photographs, sculptures and oil paintings on canvas, by visual creators from the municipalities of Imías, Baracoa and Guantánamo.
