San Antonio de los Baños, Artemisa, Cuba- The sample Prints on Time by Flora Fong, a plastic artist in our country, is recently opened at the Provincial Center of Visual Arts Eduardo Abela, located in this county.
The name of the exhibition refers to the early years of the artist in the creative world to the present, and print, a genre that used to create the works.
More than twenty works are in the exhibition, made by different techniques such as lithography and lienzography dominated by screen printing. The subjects, mostly recreate nature and use of colors like bright yellow and dark blue, reveal the creative predilection for this subject.
Prints on time already was in the home province of Flora Fong, Camagüey, about the 500 years of founded and also in Sancti Spiritus, a place that keeps bond with the artist.
During the inauguration, Flora Fong thanked those present and urged young artists not to relent in the relentless pursuit of creativity, essential to becoming an established look artist.
To show her spontaneous nature, Flora Fong donated one of her paintings to the special school "April 17th " in San Antonio de los Baños while she received many gifts from the officials of Education and Culture Department, directors of the Cuban Cultural Fund, the Cuban Association of Craft Artists (ACAA), and the recognition of the Party and the Ariguanabo Government leaders.
Flora Fong holds numerous awards for the quality of her work since 1970, where she graduated till the present.
Her creations are not only limited to painting, has also dabbled in drawing, ceramics, stained glass, fabric design and manufacture of kites by oriental art. She traveled to different countries like USA, Germany, Russia, Spain, Mexico, Portugal, Italy, France, Japan, China and Korea, among others.
She has in her path a wide participation in personal and group exhibitions in Cuba and abroad, just as in art fairs and auctions like Christie's, fairs Art Chicago, Los Angeles Art Show, Art Hampton, Art Wynwood, Houston Fine Art Fair, International Art Fair of South Korea, among others.
The typical natural and talent of Flora Fong make her one of the most notable artists of contemporary Cuban art.
