Swiss Comics from today in Camagüey

Eduardo Rosales, director of the Provincial Center of the Visual Arts, assured that according to the available references the sample is the first of the mentioned expressive branch in the territory.

Presented previously in Cuba in the 2008 in Havana, the panoramic offers a retrospective one with reproductions of fragments of comics of dozens of authors.

The profesionality, wide variety of styles, topics and publications testify the ancestral print of the Central European country in becoming of an artistic slope whose theoretical foundation and practice is attributed the Swiss Rodolphe Topffer who lived from 1799 to 1846.

In the exhibition figure, also, works of 13 personalities of Camagüeya, several of which concern to the cómics, a branch that has its main creator in Juan Padrón in the Cuban responsibility, with the series played by Elpidio Valdés.

Also linked to the sample, will be inaugurated at the four and 30 of the afternoon, in the gallery of the municipal Government's headquarters, an exhibition of creations of Osvaldo Díaz, of Camagüey.

Image convergence and schemes, the cómics, denominated puppets popularly in Cuba, possesses one of their remote antecedents in the Egyptian papyruses, those which although with other objectives, reflect messages based on the illustrations.(Adolfo Silva Silva)