National Museum of Fine Arts to Feature Works by Artist and Graphic Humorist Manuel Hernández

On Thursday, July 23, at 4:00 p.m., the exhibition "Con doble sentido" by 2024 National Visual Arts Award winner Manuel Hernández will open in the Second Floor Temporary Gallery of the National Museum of Fine Arts.

The National Council of Visual Arts reports that the exhibition brings together drawings, paintings, sculptures, and ceramics from the artist's extensive career spanning over six decades. In addition to offering a chronological overview, it reveals the visual and conceptual richness of a body of work that transcends the traditional boundaries of graphic humor to occupy an essential place within Cuban art.

Curated by Daisvel Pérez Álvarez, "Con doble sentido" represents an opportunity to reconnect with one of the country's most significant artists and to explore a body of work in which each image retains its ability to surprise, move, and generate new readings over time, organizers explain.

Manuel Hernández belongs to that select group of creators who have observed Cuban reality with uncommon intelligence and insight, finding in humor a way to observe, question, and preserve that which defines an era.

His work has accompanied several generations and continues to reveal, with striking relevance, many of the contradictions, gestures, and ways of understanding everyday life, the report concludes.