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Documentary dedicated to the artist Martha Jimenez will be released in Cuba

Havana- Next Tuesday, March 17, at five in the afternoon, in the theater room of the National Museum of Fine Arts, will be released the documentary of the series Lights and Shadows (27 minutes) dedicated to the potter, sculptress, engraver and painter Martha Jimenez, based in Camaguey.

The audiovisual, made by the Audiovisual Producer of the Office of the Historian of Havana, has the reflections of Dr. Eusebio Leal Spengler, Historian of Havana; Jose Rodriguez, director of the Office of the Historian of Camaguey; Luis Alvarez Alvarez, National Prize for Literature, and Eduardo Roca Salazar (Choco), National Prize for Fine Arts 2017.

As stated in the documentary, Dr. Leal, Martha Jimenez "is part of that range of female artists who have made very substantive contributions to the female footprint in the art of Cuba" and "tells us about the need to recognize" the role of woman in the history of universal art and in the art of Cuba. "Her speech is a very intense and very authentic gender discourse and, in some cases, very provocative as any expression of true art must be", said Leal.

Also, the Director of the Office of the Historian of the City of Camaguey, Jose Rodriguez, expressed that Martha Jimenez “has stood up for her work, rather than her words” and that the imprint she has left in Camaguey “it has not been for her speech, but for doing and for the high quality in the invoice of everything she creates”. Rodriguez insisted that the artist "is an example because she has been able to change ugly postcards of the city and decorate it with new attributes, not to impress the visitor but to bring new dimensions and new edges to the city she loves so much".

He said that, for example, a sculptural ensemble such as that of the Plaza del Carmen, created by Martha, only exists in Camaguey: “A set that interacts with people, that people appreciate it regardless of the knowledge they have or not of the visual arts, and that sends you, immediately, to Camaguey ”, he concluded.

The writer and essayist Luis Alvarez considered that Martha “is a Creole” of Camaguey, “a woman who does not dress stentorically or loudly; she is not a person who demands her place under the sun, even if she touches it. She is an artist who with her work has come to have an international projection and recognition without having left her city, which is present as soon as she does”.

Choco -considered a true master of Cuban engraving and who graduated, along with Martha, from the first promotion of the School of Art Instructors in the distant 1970s- when analyzing the work of the Camagueyan artist, in relation to the graphic arts, said that "it is a deeply feminine proposal, a work that shows that it is done by a woman and that identifies her as an engraver".

He pointed out that although Martha has an intense work as a sculpture, the fact of carrying other disciplines in parallel, such as engraving, "makes her work amplify and acquires a much larger, more universal dimension", he said.

The documentary, with script and direction of who subscribes these lines, has the general direction of Magda Resik, the realization and photography of Joel Guerra, the original music authored by Angel Quintero and Tomas Rivero, and the production by Yanely Hernandez.




Author: Estrella Diaz
Source: http://lajiribilla.cu/
Published: Monday, 9 mar, 2020