Orestes Larios Zaak

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Sunday, Sept. 11, Goodman Community Center, 2-5 pm

The public is invited to attend and meet Orestes Larios Zaak (work pictured), one of contemporary Cuba’s noted painters, and his wife, Maria Ofelia Granela Suarez. Known for the thematic use of the environment, stressing its fragility and natural beauty, Larios’ paintings will be for sale while on exhibit through Sept. 22. Sponsored by the Madison Camaguey Sister City Association.

press release: Orestes Larios Zaak, one of contemporary Cuba's noted painters, will visit Madison September 2-23, 2016. Larios, who visited Madison with a sculptor colleague in 2009, will be exhibiting his paintings at the Goodman Center on the east side. His paintings are especially known for their thematic use of the environment, stressing its fragility and its natural beauty, and will be for sale at the exhibition. The visit and exhibition are sponsored by the Madison Camaguey Sister City Association.

Larios is a well-known teacher as well as the director of an artists' workshop and exhibition space in central Camaguey, the city that has been one of Madison's sister cities since the late 1990s.  In the early 2000s, he helped coordinate a sister city relationship between Madison's Beth Israel Center and the the tiny Jewish community of Camaguey. Galeria Larios displays the work of young artists from Cuba and other countries throughout the world. Many Madisonians have visited his gallery, and he has hosted visitors from Madison.

A public reception in honor of Larios and his wife Maria Ofelia Granela Suarez will be held on September 11 from 2:00-5:00 p.m. at the Goodman Center, 149 Waubesa Street. The public is invited to attend and meet our special Cuban friends.