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Title
Fusterlandia Havana Cuba
Artist
Joan Carroll
Medium
Photograph - Photography And Digital Art
Description
If you can’t make it to Barcelona to see the unique ‘trencadis’ ceramic works of Antoni Gaudi, you can hop over to Cuba to visit what is now being called ‘Fusterlandia’. Jose Fuster is a Cuban artist inspired by the work of Gaudi and Brancusi and wanted to put his artistic talents into his real-world surroundings. In 1975, he moved into a modest wood house in the rundown neighborhood of Jaimanitas outside Havana. He then set about decorating his studio in colorful mosaic. Once he was done there, he asked his neighbors if he could decorate their homes and business as well. A few accepted his offer and the tile creations grew. Over the course of a decade, doctors’ offices, bus stops, fountains, benches, gateways, and more were enveloped by Fuster’s whimsical imagination. Today, his artwork coats the neighborhood in a rainbow of strange, enchanting fantasy. Jaimanitas was an economically depressed area before Fuster arrived. Jaimanitas is now a unique work of public art where Fuster has decorated over 80 houses with ornate murals and domes to suit the personality of his neighbors. You can almost say he has out-Gaudi’d Gaudi.
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Joan carroll, tiles, tilework, colorful
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