[Author]by the El Reportero’s news services[/Author]
A selection of works by Salvador Dali (1904-1989) will be shown in Cuba for the first time in the “Memories of Surrealism” exhibition, which will open at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana on July 24, local media said.
The Universal Art building of the 100-year-old institution will show 95 works by Dali, the icon of international surrealism, whose work as a painter is well known in Cuba, but not his etchings, such as will be seen here, the National Museum’s specialist, Maximo Gomez Noda, said.
The works belong to the series “Fantastic Journey” (1965), “Dali Interprets Currier and Ives (1971), “The Twelve Tribes of Israel” (1973), “The Divine Comedy” (1960), “The Songs of Maldoror (1934), and “Memories of Surrealism” (1971), the latter providing the name for the exhibition.
The curator of the exhibition, New York expert Alex Rosenberg, says in the catalogue that the mishaps and difficulties these works went through over the years reminded him that the series “The Twelve Tribes of Israel” was finished in record time by Dali, who said it took him 30 years to create it and “just five days to execute it from all I had learned.”
Eva Longoria hosts charity events while on vacation in Spain
Eva Longoria organized two events this weekend for the Global Gift foundation in the southern Spanish resort city of Marbella, where the actress is vacationing with relatives.
Global Gift held a charity golf tournament Saturday at the La Quinta club.
Longoria and her sister hit the spa with their mother to help her celebrate her 70th birthday.
The 39-year-old actress wrapped up her beauty treatment in time to make the post-tournament luncheon and awards ceremony.
Longoria will be attending the 500-euro ($676) per person Global Gift gala on Sunday at Marbella’s Don Pepe Hotel.
“All the money raised will go completely” to the Eva Longoria Foundation, the Bertin Osborne Foundation and Global Gift, Maria Bravo, founder and main moving force behind Global Gift, said.
Antonio Banderas Takes Part in Peruvian Religious Festival
Spanish actor Antonio Banderas has been visiting the Peruvian city of Cuzco this week, from where he went to take part in a famous religious festival of region and on Friday was expected to walk the Inca Trail to the citadel of Machu Picchu.
Banderas, who visited Lima two months ago to take part in a charitable event, attended the Cuzco region’s Virgen del Carmen (Our Lady of Mount Carmel) Festival this week in the town of Paucartambo, local media said.
The star of “El Zorro” visited Paucartambo’s colonial church and briefly joined in the traditional procession of dancers to the cemetery in that town, but withdrew when he saw that several of the faithful on hand had recognized him.
During his visit two months ago, Banderas said he wanted to return to Peru to visit Cuzco with his daughter Stella del Carmen.
The Facebook page of a Cuzco restaurant confirmed the presence of the Spanish actor, who arrived Wednesday, with a posted photo in which he appears with staff members of the establishment.
Local media said the actor was going to set off Friday on the Inca Trail, a three-day walk to the fa mous citadel of Machu Picchu, though when asked by Efe, cutural authorities in the Cuzco region were unable to confirm that information.
