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A Perfect Marriage of Ink and Paper

From Granma · () Spanish

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  • The “From Verse to Color” exhibition opened at the Provincial Center for Visual Arts in Bayamo alongside the 34th International Book Fair.
  • Twenty works by local artists translate poetry and prose into colors, textures and visual compositions exploring memory, childhood and the dreamlike.
  • A poetry reading and remarks from participating artists highlighted the collaboration between literature and visual art.

Bayamo has dressed itself in literary and visual celebration with “From Verse to Color,” a collective exhibition that turns the written word into a meeting point for poetry and painting. Held alongside the 34th International Book Fair, the show brings writers and visual artists together at the Provincial Center for Visual Arts.

The exhibition presents 20 works in which words leave the page and unfold across the canvas. Colors, textures and verses guide visitors through memory, childhood and the dreamlike, creating what the organizers describe as a perfect marriage between ink and brush. Artists including Alexis Pantoja, Ramón Quesada, Juan Luis Maceo Núñez, Rafael Fuentes, Rayvel González Torres, Carlos López Mendieta, Alexander Garcés González, Ricardo Bermúdez Moya, Úrico Chávez Roa and Leidys Pérez Méndez contribute to the display.

The opening also featured an emotional reading by poet Luis Carlos Suárez, who presented his poem “The Girl at the Café.” The poem evokes a young woman wearing timeless boots and a feminist beret in the middle of August, adding music and spoken poetry to the visual conversation.

I tried not to illustrate it, but to represent in some way the emotional weight carried by the poem.

· Juan Luis Maceo NúñezThe visual artist described his approach to a work based on a poem by Luis Carlos Suárez.

Juan Luis Maceo Núñez, who worked from one of Suárez’s poems, said, “I tried not to illustrate it, but to represent in some way the emotional weight carried by the poem.” Artist Raylven Friman, whose work draws on the narrative of writer Erwin Caro, said his proposal explores color and the emblem of narrative by translating the fleeting nature of words into textures and strokes.

The exhibition includes the work of poets Lucía Muñoz Maceo, Joel Quesada Rodríguez and Claudia Martínez Milanés, as well as essayist Juan Manuel Alsina Milanés. For Friman, the exchange is valuable because the visual work behind it contains “a blend of literature, research and training.” In Bayamo, the exhibition presents art as something to be read and felt.

A blend of literature, research and training.

· Raylven FrimanFriman used the phrase to describe the literary foundation of the visual work.
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