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Prestigious Pauta Magazine publishes article about the work of Martha Jimenez

Camaguey- The article "The pottery of Martha Jimenez Perez. Repercussion in contemporaneity and the future", which addresses the work of this relevant creative of the visual arts based in Camaguey, has been published in Pauta, the Cuban magazine of crafts and design.

The presentation of this publication, sponsored by the Cuban Fund of Cultural Goods (FCBC), took place at the headquarters of the Hermanos Saiz Association (AHS), in a meeting chaired by Isabel Garcia Rosales, specialist in visual arts and director of the Gallery Amalia, that belongs to the subsidiary of the FCBC in this province.

The publication appears in number 4, year 3, corresponding to 2017, of the aforementioned journal. The author of the writing is the specialist, galerist and curator Yaniel Perez Guerra, who belongs to the work team of the Studio-Workshop Martha Jimenez, located next to the Plaza del Carmen, in the city of Camaguey.

"Martha Petrona Jimenez Perez is currently one of the most notorious potters in the Cuban island scene, from her breakthroughs in the artistic dynamics of the last decades of the twentieth century", as expressed the specialist Perez Guerra.

Two works by Jimenez Perez appear illustrating this article: the piece Equilibrist, from the series The Circus, elaborated in enameled ceramic and metal; in addition to a Teapot, also created in the enameled ceramic technique.

The also curator and gallerist adds that "the spirit of Martha Jimenez remains uneasy; her artistic history increases as her ingenious pieces continue to gain prominence".


Author: Roger Rodriguez Martin
Source: Studio-Workshop Martha Jimenez
Published: Monday, 12 Mar, 2018