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Heaven on Earth

by Avatar photo Mónica Rivero, monica-rivero
October 2, 2018
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Photomontage of “…Es la esperanza” (It’s hope), by Gabriel Guerra Bianchini. Photo: Iván Soca.

Photomontage of “…Es la esperanza” (It’s hope), by Gabriel Guerra Bianchini. Photo: Iván Soca.

 

A Havana Malecón that doesn’t contain the sea, but is rather a cloud lookout point. The very city flooded in white steam…. That is what Gabriel Guerra Bianchini fantasizes, breaking “the damn circumstance,”

“Make my wish come true of bringing us at least a horizon,” the photographer asks. “Allow me to fill this plaza with clouds; they are my utopia, the horizon and hope.” The clouds are the ones he has photographed for a long time; the plaza is that of Havana’s Cathedral Square, which in the 498 years the city celebrated on November 17 made its premier as an open-air gallery.

Ten giantographies make up “…Es la esperanza”; for Bianchini, his “most desired personal exhibition.” The works, printed on canvas, take up the arches of the traditional Havana square.

The creation process, Gabriel explains, is very simple. “It is the superimposition of two photos, two spaces. The clouds I have collected for years and spaces of my Havana with their characters.” He also tries to make “each cloud fit in, in the direction in which the light is shown as well as its tones.”

Memorandum

Why clouds? “In the midst of so much chaos,” says Gabriel, “drawing a focal point with the immensity is remembering how small we are, how insignificant this running around is, how simple are the things that really matter, and that calm that lives beyond.”

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The photographer of the bare elegance of Havana again resorts to the city as a stage. He breathes the art that is in the street and wants to be part of that movement. This time he is also pleased that it is “precisely one of Cuba’s most visited places.” He wants to bet on art being “at the reach of citizens, of the neighbors of the space they take up, of everybody. Without being closed in by any wall. That it can get wet with the rain, sleep outside and be an unexpected surprise for passersby.”

Gabriel Guerra assembling his exhibition “…Es la Esperanza,” which Cathedral Square premiers as an open-air gallery. Photo: Iván Soca.
Gabriel Guerra assembling his exhibition “…Es la Esperanza,” which Cathedral Square premiers as an open-air gallery. Photo: Iván Soca.

First visitors

Gabriel Guerra constantly updates his Facebook page, where it has been possible to follow the preparation of this exhibition almost in detail; since its conception to its montage, going through the printing of each one of the works.

On the night of November 15, when the installation in the arches of the Square was concluded, he published the photo of the first visitor: a stray cat.

“The exhibition already had its first visitor.” Photo: Gabriel Guerra Bianchini.
“The exhibition already had its first visitor.” Photo: Gabriel Guerra Bianchini.

But it wasn’t the only one. A couple was leaving the church and went by to look at the photographs. The photographer was giving the finishing touches. The man approached him to comment that it seemed like a “very Christian work.”

“Thank you for bringing us heaven to earth,” he said to Guerra.

 

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