Alberto Lescay’s inner landscape will reach Cuba’s fine arts

Entitled Interior Landscapes, the exhibition will open from March 17 to May 21, 2023, with a selection of pieces from the latest catalog for the 2021 National Art Prize and a project leader dedicated to promoting culture and rescuing identity, through monumental and applied arts.

Able to transform dreams, stories, and shapes into sculptures, etchings, paintings, and drawings, Lescay has a resume of more than 70 personal exhibitions and similar numbers of group shows over nearly five decades.

Among his notable works are monumental sculptural works and a constant interest in stimulating the public, outside of specialized spaces, in order to maintain dialogue with the pieces.

As praised by the poet Rafael Acosta de Arriba Lesque, it “gives sculpture a special collective dimension”, in addition to his own vision of highlighting the culture of the island and the inclusion of issues closely related to the history of Cuba in the regional context.

“I understood, over time, that reflecting the creative expressions of the Caribbean nation was a responsibility I had to take on, which is why I prepared myself a lot by studying, in fact more than usual, for about 16 years,” he tells Prensa Latina.

His professional training includes art education degrees in painting in 1968, sculpture at the National Art School (1973) and a master’s degree in art at the Repin Academy of Sculpture, Architecture, Painting and Graphics in St. Petersburg (1979).

One of its greatest contributions to the island’s culture is the Caguayo Foundation, founded 25 years ago, which “catalyzes the integration of schools of art, design and architecture, as a meeting point where theoretical and production spaces converge.”

Most of his work was carried out in the eastern province of Santiago de Cuba, his home country, while he initialed works such as the architectural complex of Plaza Antonio Maceo of the Revolution, the Cimarron Monument and the one inspired by the Mother of the Fatherland, Mariana Grajales, among others.

His catalog also includes small-scale sculptures and figurative series that have been exhibited in prestigious galleries and museums in Cuba and other countries such as Mexico, the United States, Canada, Venezuela, the Dominican Republic, Germany, Jamaica, Brazil and Russia.

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