“Fidel es Fidel” photographic exhibition inaugurated
The photographic and audiovisual exhibition “Fidel es Fidel” by cinematographer Roberto Chile, dedicated to the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro Ruz’s 88th birthday, was inaugurated Tuesday, August 12, at the José Martí Memorial, in Havana. Present at the inauguration were Comandante de la Revolución Guillermo García Frías; Decorated Hero of Playa Girón José Ramón Fernández; director of the Martí Program Office, Armando Hart; and leaders of the Party and Young Communist League, among others.
In the catalogue of works, which will remain open to the public through September 28, journalist Arleen Rodríguez stated that since the days of the Sierra, the olive green uniform has been the most visible symbol of the unyielding guerilla.
She commented that, at times, for reasons of protocol, he wore the guayabera or a classic dark suit, but would immediately put the campaign uniform back on, with epaulettes showing the red and black diamond between laurels, the emblem of the revolutionary leader.
“So it was until that fateful day when his Proclamation left us mute with anguish: his personal decision to relinquish the responsibilities he had held, due to popular acclamation, until then. He seemed to have put aside the uniform of so many difficult, glorious battles, with whose threads had been sown decisive moments of modern history,” stated Rodríguez.
She added that Fidel is Fidel. “He said it before and who knows it better than any of us. Fidel knows how much the olive green uniform and the star of Comandante en Jefe mean to a people who nurture our resistance with our own history,” she emphasized.
She pointed out that after many long uncertain months, Fidel, the soldier of acute, provocative ideas, reappeared. He was the same, his telescopic rifle had become a weapon of universal scope, the living word, with which he aimed at matters which didn’t seem to concern the leaders of the first world, at a time when the long term view can make the difference between the survival or extinction of all living species.
Roberto Chile, who for more than 25 years has captured the image in motion of Fidel Castro, let his film camera rest, instead choosing the fixed image to immortalize the transcendence of those decisive moments in history and by doing so, freeze in time, the epic symbol of a iconic man who has fought his entire life, she concluded.
In the catalogue of works, which will remain open to the public through September 28, journalist Arleen Rodríguez stated that since the days of the Sierra, the olive green uniform has been the most visible symbol of the unyielding guerilla.
She commented that, at times, for reasons of protocol, he wore the guayabera or a classic dark suit, but would immediately put the campaign uniform back on, with epaulettes showing the red and black diamond between laurels, the emblem of the revolutionary leader.
“So it was until that fateful day when his Proclamation left us mute with anguish: his personal decision to relinquish the responsibilities he had held, due to popular acclamation, until then. He seemed to have put aside the uniform of so many difficult, glorious battles, with whose threads had been sown decisive moments of modern history,” stated Rodríguez.
She added that Fidel is Fidel. “He said it before and who knows it better than any of us. Fidel knows how much the olive green uniform and the star of Comandante en Jefe mean to a people who nurture our resistance with our own history,” she emphasized.
She pointed out that after many long uncertain months, Fidel, the soldier of acute, provocative ideas, reappeared. He was the same, his telescopic rifle had become a weapon of universal scope, the living word, with which he aimed at matters which didn’t seem to concern the leaders of the first world, at a time when the long term view can make the difference between the survival or extinction of all living species.
Roberto Chile, who for more than 25 years has captured the image in motion of Fidel Castro, let his film camera rest, instead choosing the fixed image to immortalize the transcendence of those decisive moments in history and by doing so, freeze in time, the epic symbol of a iconic man who has fought his entire life, she concluded.
Source:
Granma Internacional
Date:
13/08/2014