Adigio Benítez. Santiago de Cuba, 1924

Adigio Benítez graduated from San Alejandro Fine Arts Academy in 1949. In 1952, he attended the Socialist Youth Congress for Peace in Viena, as delegate and in 1959, he visited various European countries and in this same year he was acknowledged with the Prize of National Salon of Acquisition.

Since 1950, he worked for the famous newspaper Hoy. He is one of the National School of Art`s founders, created after the revolutionary triumph in the island on 1959; where he teached drawing. Adigio also worked for Granma Newspaper since 1965, making caricatures and designs of headlines on remarkable conmemorative dates.

In 1975, became the Principal of Plastic Arts at National Council of Culture, at the same time, he was doing an important instructive work at Superior Institute of Art. In 1979 he was named as President of the International Association of Plastic Arts, receiving, further more, the Distinction for Cuban Education. In 1985, he was revered with René Portocarrero Great Prize at UNEAC Salon and on 1988, received Alejo Carpentier Medal. Around 1994, he was honored with Félix Varela Order of First Grade, obtaining some other national distinctions of cultural character. He received the National Prize of Visual Arts in 2002.

Remake 1995

Along more than 50 years of creative labor, his work is marked by a signature tone of renovation, becoming through his artwork an important exponent of his generation. His works can be seen at Cuban, Mexican and European museums and his murales appear at public buildings facades from Cuban capital.


More information at La Bijirita and National Council of Plastic Arts.

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