Santiago de Cuba
Lluvia en la Cordellera – Rain in the Mountains by Rene Negrin 2010
In December of 2010, the city of Santiago de Cuba held its first Rene Valdes Cedeño Public Sculpture Symposium, an homage to an artist and teacher who authored works as important as the Cuba’s Abel Santamaria Monument.
Sponsored by the Caguayo Foundation and the Advisory Council for the Development of Public Sculptures and Monuments, the symposium seeks to promote sculpting in marble and metals.
The second Symposium was held in November of 2013. This sculpture is a result of the first symposium.
Rene Negrin was born September 28, 1949. He is a consulting Professor of Artes Plasticas at the Superior Institute of Art in Cuba.
In this situation Artes Plasticas is not necessarily a literal translation to Plastic Art. The term has also been applied more broadly to all the visual (non-literary, non-musical) arts (such as painting, sculpture, film and photography).
Negrin studied at the National School of Art, the Superior Institute of Art and has a master of art with a specialty in sculpture.
He is a member of the Writers and Artists Guild of Cuba and the Association of Artes Plasticas.