{"id":202228,"date":"2019-07-12T14:39:31","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T18:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=202228"},"modified":"2019-07-12T14:39:31","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T18:39:31","slug":"cuban-artist-carmen-herrera-reaches-the-streets-of-new-york-at-age-104","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/culture\/visual-arts\/cuban-artist-carmen-herrera-reaches-the-streets-of-new-york-at-age-104\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuban artist Carmen Herrera reaches the streets of New York at age 104"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cuban artist <\/span>Carmen Herrera<\/span><\/a>, aged 104, went unnoticed until a little over a decade ago, but this Wednesday she reached a new goal with the exhibition of a group of her large-scale sculptures in the gardens of New York\u2019s City Hall.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I love that she is finally being recognized and that she is being seen as a historical artistic figure,” said to EFE news agency the curator of the show, Daniel Palmer, of the New York Public Arts Fund.<\/span><\/p>\n

And it is that the exhibition, titled “Estructuras Monumentales” and that is formed by five large-scale monochromatic aluminum sculptures, is being exhibited in the middle of Manhattan, in view of the more than eight million inhabitants of New York, a city considered the world epicenter of art.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thus, Palmer points out, one of Herrera’s great dreams is coming true, to bring her work to the people and that they enjoy it for free, after decades of frustration in which the Cuban woman was constantly relegated to the background for the mere fact of being a woman.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Daniel Palmer, curator of the New York exhibition of sculptures by Cuban artist Carmen Herrera. Photo: Kena Betancur \/ EFE.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“The gallerists told her clearly many times that they didn\u2019t want to exhibit her art because the works of women were not selling well,” recalled the curator of the New York cultural organization.<\/span><\/p>\n

This time, five of her great sculptures, up to 3.6 meters long, will remain in New York\u2019s City Hall Park from this Wednesday until November 8, three of which are exhibited for the first time, and the other two have only been seen in Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Estructuras Monumentales” are from a long time back, as some of the pieces were conceived and drawn by Herrera in the 1960s and 1970s, although the scant attention she received at that time led to them not being produced until two years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n

One example is the work Pavanne, initially designed as a drawing in 1967 in homage to her brother, who had cancer, and who was only made in 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n

Located under the trees of Manhattan\u2019s green area, the sculpture, a bright blue, is formed by three pieces that fit together, two in the shape of an “L” and one in the shape of a “U,” separated by a narrow space that gives a glimpse of the park\u2019s green background.<\/span><\/p>\n

Another of the outstanding works of the exhibition is Angulo Rojo, a red sculpture in the shape of an “A” that receives New Yorkers at the southern entrance to the park, and which is the first structure the Cuban has designed in more than three decades, during which she has devoted herself mainly to painting.<\/span><\/p>\n