Japanese Sculpture Donated for 80th Anniversary of Cuba-Japan Relations

HAVANA, Cuba, Mar 25 (acn) Japanese artist Ryuzo Kawano has donated in Tokyo one of his sculptures, dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between his country and Cuba.

Kawano gave the work of art to Cuba’s ambassador in Japan, José Fernández de Cossío, so it can be placed at the diplomatic mission of the archipelago in that Asian nation.

The piece depicts the face of a woman, with a mystical touch, whose hair is made up by sheets of a book and a boat, interpretative of the exchange of cultures between the two insular countries, explained the artist.

Identical copies of the sculpture will be donated to the Japanese Embassy and the Asian Centre in Havana. The latter, is a reference centre for Asian culture, located in Old Havana’s historic area, declared by UNESCO a World Heritage Site.

Ryuzo Kawano, who is now visiting the archipelago along with other colleagues, will exhibit his sculpture at the Asia Centre, as a collateral exhibition of the 10th Havana Biennial, under the title “The Asian, the Cuban, and the Japanese”.

He will also hold exchanges with students from the capital’s Institute of Higher Arts.

(Donan obra por aniversario de relaciones Cuba-Japón)