American Photographer to Display Solo Exhibition in Old Havana

The American Photographer Michael Dweck was invited to travel to Cuba to exhibit through images the secret life of Cuba’s creative class at Fototeca de Cuba Museum in Old Havana, the most visited heritage town in the whole Cuban archipelago and one of foreign tourists’ best choices for their fascinating Havana holidays. Dweck’s personal exhibition called Habana Libre will take place on 24th February 2012 and it will continue until 24th March 2012. Prior to the show in Old Havana, the exhibition was shown at Modernism Gallery in San Francisco, Blitz Gallery in Tokyo, Staley Wise Gallery in New York, Izzy Gallery in Toronto and Art Basel in Miami. “I love the way the book displays the photographs, but as I’ve been given the honour of being one of the first living American artists to exhibit in Cuba, I felt I had to present something additional as a show of respect and gratitude,” Dweck said. “The unique motif is meant to honour the beauty of the island's past, reflect the heat of the people and serves as a reflection of their spirit, their future, their potential. Day-in and day-out, Cubans are preserving much more than the metal of old cars. They’re preserving a lost way of life and I want to pay tribute to that in a small way,” he added. Some talented Cuban artists are also included in Dweck’s photographs such as Kelvis Ochoa, musician; Rene Francisco, painter; Yaday Ponce, dancer; Rachel Valdez, painter; Carlos Quintana, painter; Leonardo Padura, novelist and Francis del Rio, musician. According to this American photographer, with brush and shutter and clay and chord the artists of Havana put their conscience on record. Their art is their vision of the country and Habana Libre is its interpreter. The Habana Libre exhibition will be open at Cuba’s most important photography institution and it will be an excellent opportunity for both Cuban locals and foreign visitors taking Havana holidays to see images presented in greater scale using an unconventional recycled Kraft paper and special printing wax based toner technique in the city’s most ancient and colonial part. Old Havana, with its beautifully restored Havana hotels, old cathedral, busy and well-preserved plazas, museums and art galleries, will be again witness to an unprecedented cultural event as its author says: “it is a story of seduction suggested but never told. rnFor more details visit : http://www.thecubaexperience.co.uk/