Reynier Leyva Novo
Un día feliz FC No. 11

Un día feliz FC No. 11
Un día feliz FC No. 11
Un día feliz FC No. 11
CultureCuban
Titles
  • Un día feliz FC No. 11
  • A Happy Day FC No. 11
  • from the series Un día feliz
  • from the series A Happy Day
Date2016, printed 2024
MediumInkjet print
DimensionsImage: 39 3/4 × 39 3/4 in. (101 × 101 cm)
Frame: 51 1/8 × 51 1/8 × 2 in. (129.9 × 129.9 × 5.1 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Joan Morgenstern, Jereann Chaney, and Carl Niendorff
Object number2024.82
Current Location
The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building
Gallery 314
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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

In meticulous digital postproduction, Reynier Leyva Novo removed Fidel Castro from a photograph by Alberto Korda, the photographer most credited with establishing the iconography of the triumphant revolution and its leaders. Here, Castro’s presence is suggested only by the photographers stretching to film and photograph him addressing the crowds gathered below in the Plaza de la Revolución. What would modern-day Cuba look like without the imagery of its charismatic leader that fed a cult of personality for half a century? This is what Leyva Novo asks in his series Un día feliz (A Happy Day), begun in the year of Castro’s death.

 

Reynier Leyva Novo eliminó a Fidel Castro de una instantánea de Alberto Korda, el fotógrafo célebre  por definir la iconografía de la revolución, mediante una meticulosa postproducción digital. La presencia de Castro se sugiere solamente por la postura de los fotógrafos que lo encuadran mientras se dirige a la multitud en la Plaza de la Revolución. ¿Cómo sería la Cuba moderna sin la imaginería de su carismático líder, que alimentó un culto a la personalidad durante medio siglo? Leyva Novo plantea este interrogante en su serie Un día feliz, iniciada en el año de la muerte de Castro.


ProvenanceThe artist, Houston; purchased by MFAH, 2024.

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