Cuban artist Jesús Hdez-Güero in his studio in Madrid. Courtesy of the artist
With the work Luis Manuel-Boitel (2020) the visual artist Jesús Hdez-Güero, based in Madrid, joins the support
of a wide swathe of the Cuban artistic community for Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, who in the last six months has gone on two hunger strikes to demand
freedom of creation and an end to the repression of dissenters.
The collage, part of the
Proteus Syndrome series, with two versions forming a diptych,
also evokes the Cuban poet Pedro Luis Boitel, a fundamental figure in the history of dissidence on the island, who died 53 days after declaring
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