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Esperanza Berena Feria Pacho

Cuban HandCraft Art
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  • Name: Esperanza Berena Feria Pacho
  • ID: 49090108710
  • Study: Painting and Mechanography
  • Birthdate: September 1st, 1949
  • Civil status: married
  • Kids: 1 Son (doctor), 1 daughter (lab technician)
  • Birth place: Mayari, Holguin
“Since I was little, I have always loved to deal with manual art, like sweing , I learned it from my mother. Then I studied Painting and Mechanography in Particular Academy. I still keep the titles, not from painting cause it was an elementary course (1965).

In 1995, I started to study how to create small figures using fibres from “malangueta” and “yarey” in an autodidactic way and then fix them in a base made of wood in order to simulate their natural environment , according to the type of figure: insects, reptiles, birds, etc. I reproduce them giving the shape and color as I watch them in pictures.
This work I do is known in countries like Spain, France, Italy, England, Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil, Guatemala and others. In Canada I exposed in a Cuban fair.
Expositions

National

  • Celebration of the IX and X anniversary of the foundation of the Culture House in Alamar., 1997
  • National Fair of Popular Artesany, Habana del Este,1999
  • National Fair of Popular Artesany, Ciego de Avila, 1997
  • Celebration of 478 Anniversary of the Foundation of San Cristobal de la Habana village
  • Celebration of The Week of the Cuban culture
  • Exposition “Pure Pacience”, Galiano Gallery, ACAA
  • Fair in honour to the Pope visit in 1998
  • Fair Expo-sales, Mariano Rodriguez Gallery, ACAA., 1998
  • Gallery Guayasamin
  • Kaiowas Project “Naturarte”, ACAA
  • Religious exposition, “La Casona” in Old Square (Plaza Vieja)
  • “Good bye to the Millenium”, celebrating the anniversary of the creation of the Revolution Museum., ACAA, 2002
  • Participation in the TV program “23 y M”, Cuban television. 2000
  • Celebration of the Week of the Venezuelan Culture and the XIX anniversary of the foundation of ACAA, 2000
  • Gallery Mariano Rodriguez with “Cantares de Gallo”, 2001 and the exposition “Arte-arte”
  • Expo-ACAA 2002

International

  • Local industries, Canada, 1996
  • International Exposition “Creative Women”
  • International Meeting “Creative Women” 1997
  • XIV Festival of Youth and Students, 1997
  • Gallery Popular Art from Horizontes Hotels in the Panamerican Village where the International event “Pedagogy 97” was held
  • Jornade “Cuban Artesany and Gastronomy ”, Nayarit state, Mexico, 1997
  • Fair expo-sales ARTEX; France 1999
  • Fiart ’99, Pabexpo
  • Fair “Cuban Artesany ”. Rome, Italy, 2000
  • Fair “Cuban Artesany”. Dominican Republic, 2002
  • Fair”Cuban Artesany” . France 2002
“In all those places I have exposed my work in order to promote it and to be able to see in what scale they are accepted among the population. According to the characteristics of this kind of artesany, the pieces has been valorated by several personalities into the world of the art, in and outside the country, who considering the authenticity of the sculptures, have thought that they were real animals that had been disecated, qualifying all this as a master piece of art, taking into account the unknowledge about the existence of the ”artesany of reference” inside and outside of Cuba. “
 Raw Materials :
  • Natural fibers ( malangueta, yarey, dried plants and flowers, coconut, guira etc)
  • Stones, bones from different animals, seeds, seaweed, sand…all kind of materials of natural origin that can be useful
  • Precious wood, long lasting : cedro, caoba, majagua, brasil etc
  • Glue (acethate)
  • Oleo

Everything is 100 percent hand-made

Types:

  • Sculptures: the shape of several endemic species of Cuba and others from America, Europe, Africa and Asia, as well as marines or terrestrial can be reacreated.
  • Paints: they are made on fabric or cartuline using differents formats and tematics. Mixed techniques and simple paints are used.

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