The artist Ernesto Benítez -professor of Art and Anthropology- was invited by the plastic artist, designer and professor Liván Padilla to share a classroom teaching at the ISDi (Instituto Superior de Diseño) in Havana. In the first class of the course, both professors talked about the techniques of handmade printing (Xylography, Intaglio, Lithography…) techniques used in artistic engraving.
Ernesto Benítez does not hide his interest in dusting off and re-emerging different symbols already coined and legitimated by Western tradition in order to confront them with the new archetypes and liturgical paraphernalia of post-modernity in an attempt to establish a constant tension of memory…
After a long time away from the national exhibition scene, Cuban painter, draftsman and installation artist Ernesto Benítez returned to the island to inaugurate the exhibition Ab æternō, in his Open Studio, in the context of international visibility offered by the 13th Havana Biennial…
