Grant Nazario Salazar reward of visual arts

The main recognition of the county in the visual arts relapsed in the 2009 in Nazario Salazar, one of the founders of the movement of the new ceramic of Camagüey.

Specialists' votes of more than 10 institutions determined the winner of the prize "Fidelio Ponce de León", dedicated to the work of the life and conferred by the Provincial Council of the Plastic Arts.

Salazar who accumulates 49 years of authoral trajectory , became more than three decades ago, with Oscar Rodríguez Lasseria, in agent of a current of artistic connotation in the mud in Camagüey, to leave fundamentally of the work with vessels.

That facet endowed from a new dimension to the use of a material that in the today territory of the county has been an employee with high emphasis from the aboriginal, mainly utilitarian stage, and which bequeathed as key symbol to the earthenjar, container type had brought more than for four centuries from Spain.

The award-winning is also a professor, painter, designer, scenographer, graphic and environmental designer, director of the sociocultural project "The mud of my neighborhood", and one of the founders and organizers of the international symposium of ceramic of artistic biennial celebration in Camagüey.

The candidacy also included Orestes Larios, Lorenzo Linares and Yolanda Ulloa.

Previously they received the stimulus Gabriel Gutiérrez, Joël Jover, Oscar Rodríguez Lasseria and Martha Jiménez.

The recognition of the current year will be given next day 28 in the program linked with the Provincial Living room of Visual Arts Fidelio Ponce de León, contest whose premiation will be carried out to the following day. (Adolfo Silva Silva )