Magia de Colores Solo es grande el Hombre que nunca pierde su corazón de Niño José Martí JANUARY 2015 VOUMEN 1, NO 10 The Cintio Vitier Project Empowering local communities through culture SP ECIAL Sculptor Pedro Pulido founded himself and his community. His the communities thus avoiding and has led a social and cultural neighbors and the families of abandonment and decay. POINTS Project for more than a decade. boys and girls who benefit from The Project is now named Cintio the Project’s activities are fore- The Project teaches participants Presentation Vitier after a remarkable Cuban ver grateful for Mr. Pulido work how to model plasticine, papier- the intellectual deceased on at school or kindergarten. mâché and other materials, and of the Poject October 1st 2009. The Project to paint. It creates local libraries … visited the artist one Saturday Cintio Vitier has been operating in central thanks to donations by the peo- morning when Mr. Pulido was areas of Havana successfully ple, including local residents. due to Mr. Pulido passion for giving a workshop in front of his Symposium of The Project membership is gro- art and its power to instill spiri- house. The magazine witnessed wing and it receives visitors Sculpture tual values among the people in there what tends to be the from abroad. This year the Pro- his community, children and norm. Participants started to “Arte Povera” ject participated in the Havana adults alike. show up early. The first ones to Biennal Art Exhibition. arrive where the members of Knowing Mr. Pulido, prolific by nature, graduated from San Alejandro three generations of a family: a The Project is affiliated with the Cintio Vitiier National Academic of Fine Arts pupil accompanied by his a National Union of Writers and where he studied drawing and father and grandfather, who Artists of Cuba and Works clo- sculpture (1958-1963). He has work with Mr. Pulido. sely with institutions such as Academia San Alejandro, the received several awards as re- There are the plans to extend oldest and most prestigious fine cognition for his promotion of the activities to other areas of arts school in Cuba. However, it national culture. the city by converting abando- basically subsist n the support ned buildings into cultural sites. Mr. Pulido´s house in Vedado by the community and its foun- serves as headquarters for the Cintio Vitier Project restore der. Project. Any visitor is easily these spaces by putting pain- overwhelmed by Pulido eager- tings, sculptures, tables and ness to achieve a pleasant and benches. As a result, these spa- stimulating environment for ces become gathering places for P Á G I N A 2 Photographs It´s just the big the men who never loses your heart of chlid José Martí This photographic review shows an extraordinary journey during 13 years of cultural artistic work, in different workshops of painting, ceramic, papier mache , sculpture, audiovisual, dance, oral expression, theater, poetry, sin- ging and performance of the Cintio Vitier Project. MAGIA DE COLORES VOUMEN 1, NO 10 P Á G I N A 3 Symposium of Sculpture The Socio-cultural Community Project “Cintio Vitier” and the “San Alejandro” Natio- nal Academy of Plastic Arts call for the Second Arte Povera Symposium of Ambient Sculpture for the communities as part of the activities of the XII Havana Biennale. In it will participate young sculpture students from the San Alejandro Arts Academy. As in the previous edition will be created sculptures using industrial (metals) recyclable garbage materials, marble, stone, etc. Workshops will begin on December 15th at the San Alejandro Plastic Arts Academy. At the Project´s first edition that was held last July 26th were installed 25 sculptures at La Dionisia neighborhood. In this second opportunity will be installed 30 sculptures of medium and big format in three communities : La Dionisia, Zone 68 and Zone 18. We are involve in this Project because our main reason is that public sculpture be the icon in which gravitates the rest of the arts. For its spirituality and permanence in time and space. We review in ima- ges the results of the first edition and of this 2nd. Symposium “ Cintio Vitier (September 25, 1921 – October 1, 2009) was a Cuban poet, essayist, and novelist Upon winning the the Juan Rulfo Prize, the award jury called him "one of the most important writers of his generation" Cintio Vitier was born to Medardo and María Cristina Bolaños Vitier on September 25, 1921, in Key West, Florida, United States, but had Cuban nationality. Vitier atten- ded a school started by his father in Matanzas, Cuba. He said that the school's library inspired his early literary inspiration. At fifteen, Vitier moved with his family to Hava- na and attended La Luz, a private school, and later a public secondary school. In 1947, he graduated as an attorney from the University of Havana.[1][4] Vitier founded the journal Luz, allowing him to publish his work. At 17, he published "Poemas", a book of his poetry. Poet Juan Ramón Jiménez, who was in exile at the time, wrote the introduction and chose the poems. The Infinitive Island : “Where exists a space of grace, of imagination, of beauty, there it is the Motherland and its defense. From the security we depart when we raise the anchor of this small ship that wants to be metaphor of the destiny of Cuba in the World and the World in Cuba. Right was Lezama, in its memorable Colloquium with Juan Ramón Jimenez, when he postulated the myth of insularity: in its obverse. Its sentiment in the distance, in its other side, its contribution of the insular undertow to the ocean currents; and right was the “universal Andalusian ” when asserted that the planet is an island, too. Every time tends to be more in the infinite star sky, if at that scale of what Chesterton called “the cosmic ligh- ted village”, as much as the immediate neighborhood, all we are brothers and every time we depend more one from the others, the only legitimate vocation is the justice fraternity, that is the moral face of beauty… Mail of Professor Pulido email: [email protected] Representative-Contact: Martin Engler 3, rue de Berne CH 1201 Geneva, Switzerland Email: [email protected] Homepage: www.martinengler.com How to help the Assotiation? Martin Engler 3, rue de Berne CH 1201 Geneva, Switzerland IBAN: CH40 0483 5022 5180 1000 0 BIC: CRESCHZZ80A .