The Cuba Project

Panchito and his daughter Idalis open the exhibition with a prayer and tobacco ceremony.
Opening Invocation and Prayer

Tobacco Ceremony

Video of the opening of the exhibition Los Artistas Magos. Over 300 people attended the event, which was documented by local and national news media.

Pavel Alejandro Barrios Sosa, the curator of the exhibition, Los Artistas Magos, wrote an insightful essay in Spanish for the catalogue. However, the person he hired to translate the work returned something that didn’t look much like English. In fact, it closely resembled something that was put through a computer translator, and in many areas [...]

THE ARTIST MAGICIANS (LOS ARTISTAS MAGOS)
James K-M (Canada), Joel Jover Llenderrosos (Cuba), Osmany Soler Mena (Cuba)
December 18, 2009 – January 18, 2010
Centro Provincial de Artes Plásticas, Camagüey, Cuba
Curated and catalogue essay by Pavel Alejandro Barrios Sosa
For more on this exhibition, see James K-M’s website.