The tapestry La memoria devora el olvido, by Cuban artist Jesús Lara Sotelo, will be unveiled here today as part of the solo exhibition Axiomática Lara. Retablos y otras iluminaciones, at the José Martí National Library of Cuba.

Axiomática Lara brings together certain obsessions that have run through my work for years: memory, the fragment, the sacred after losing its temple, geometry confronted with accident, the beauty of that which has survived its own destruction, the artist confessed exclusively to Prensa Latina.

There is something of imaginary archaeology in these works: objects that seem to come from a civilization that perhaps never existed, he added regarding the motivation behind the creations that make up his exhibition.

The unveiling will take place in the center's El Reino de este Mundo Gallery, joining the celebrations for the 125th anniversary of the National Library and Cuban Culture Day, whose central commemorative date is October 20.

Axiomática Lara... brings together painting, sculpture and wooden altarpieces, along with poems by the artist himself.

The new tapestry joins a set that explores matter, geometry, memory and the human condition, and includes pieces such as Anatomía del borde, Tres lunas para una habitación, Katmandú: geometría de los umbrales, Equilibrio interior III, Tótem axiomático I and Eclipse interior.

The opening of the solo exhibition last September 18 included music alongside cellist Rolando Borrero Oviedo, known as Cheloman.

Deputy Minister of Culture Lizette Martínez and Cuban critics Nelson Herrera Ysla and Rafael Acosta de Arriba participated in the inauguration, highlighting the diversity of inheritances and the symbolic dimension of the altarpieces.

After this event, Lara Sotelo plans another activity: on Tuesday the 27th he will present his book De bonsáis y huracanes at the Casa de Asia Museum, located in the historic center of the capital, with the support of the Japanese Embassy in Cuba, within the framework of that Asian nation's Culture Day in Havana.