Cuban mulattresses are born in the Dominican Republic

Camagüey, Clásicas cuban mulattresses werw born in the Dominican Republic, modeladaed by the ceramist Martha Jiménez, after three months of work, according to the laws of the artists program in residence PRIMAVERA 2009.

The High gallery of Chavon, of the Foundation Cultural homonym Center ,shows their sculptures, drawings and acrylic, next to the North American Esperanza Cortés works and the French Jean-Pierre Frey, also participants of the space open to the international art.

Martha Jiménez received in 1997 the Prize UNESCO to the best group of works for the Sculptural Group Plaza del carmen Square, summoned in the city of Camagüey, where resides.

According to DOMIPRESS, the artist of San German,of the county of Holguín, with residence in Camagüey “ got the best comments on their "angelfishes", the piece "the gossipers" and the other presented sculptures.”

“Martha Jiménez Pérez apparently didn't scant efforts to make to surrender the time and to take out the best thing of yes in the treatment of the formidable pieces in terracotta policromaded that presents us in diverse formats, since sculpting the mud, to leave it in an appropriate drying and then to go by the fire to obtain results is not an easy task”, he adds the agency.

Besides the public's praise, she received the medal of the Fourth International Triennial of the Ceramic Tile (elit-tile 2010) that grants the Foundation Ignerio / Art and Archaeology, for her contribution to the art and solidarity between the towns of Cuba and the Dominican Republic.

The representation of the feminine figure with a divergent canon of the current for the deformation in the ways, accentuate the attractiveness and the values of each aesthetic proposal, where she meditates with Creole grace around her gender in the contemporary world, with the legacy of the literature of manners characteristic of the popular traditions of herr nation.

Member of the Association of Latin American Studies (LASA), Martha surpasses the 60 collective and personal exhibitions in Cuba, Dominican Republic, Canada, Chile, Mexico, France and United States, and shows the Distinction For the National Culture, among other recognitions.
(Yanetsy León González )