Through "No Tengan Miedo" the artist
explores the impact of Pope John Paul IIs historic visit to Cuba on the third
anniversary of his trip. The exhibit contains
paintings created immediately after the artists first
travel to the island--an 8-hour charter trip to hear the Popes Mass, and those
created thereafter. These works include some
recent conceptual piecesthe first ever exhibited by
Cortada.
Cortada explores the Popes impact at the
societal and personal levelhaving traveled to the Vatican in February 2000 to meet the Pope and participate in the
Jubilee for Artists, and then having returned to
Cuba for the second time two months later to meet family and attend a packed Sunday
Mass in the family hometown of Nuevitas, Camaguey.
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