Cones of white paper sprout from the seasalt-eroded pillars of one colonial buil...
HAVANA - Cones of white paper sprout from the seasalt-eroded pillars of one colonial building along Havana’s seafront, elaborately painted curtains cascade from another while out front children play with an installation of multicolored hoses.
“They turned my home into an artwork,” said Silvia Perez, smiling at the paper sprouting from the colonnade of her home, a piece by Cuban artist Elio Jesús Fonseca. “The artist said it meant peace.” Cuba’s Communist government, which has heavily promoted the arts since the country’s 1959 leftist revolution, created the Havana Biennial in 1984 to promote artists from the developing world, especially Cuban ones.
Biennial Director Jorge Alfonso said it had been a challenge to stage the biennial given Cuba’s difficult economic situation - authorities postponed it half a year - but that it had succeeded underscored the importance Cuba placed on culture. “It fits a lot with the Cuban government these days and how the system is working - there is a lot of facade,” he said. “Inside it is not so perfect.”
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