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  Rita Longa Aróstegui (1912-2000)


Rita Longa
Sculptor. In 1928, she started at the Fine Arts Academy of San Alejandro. She entered in the Lyceum Law Tenis Club, in 1930 and in 1932, she made her first exposition.

Her works are placed at different cities like Madrid and Oleiros in Spain, Belgrado in Yugoslavia, Santiago de Cuba and Havana, Cuba.


Solo Exhibitions
1934 Personal Exposition, Lyceum Lawn Tennis Club Gallery, Havana.
1966 Personal Exposition, Guamá Workshop, Havana.
1982 Little Retrospective, National Theater, Havana. Retrospective of Little Format, Lennin Park, Havana. Internationalist Work, OSPAAAL Gallery, Havana.
Photographic Exposition, Bauta, Havana Province. Monumental and Environmental Sculpture, Havana Gallery. Rita Longa 70 Anniversary, National Museum. Little Retrospective, Servando Cabrera Gallery. Retrospective Exhibition, Las Tunas.
1997 The Magic of the Volume, Ché Guevara Salon, Casa de las Américas, Havana.

Group Exhibitions
1932 Beneficent Exposition of Painting and Sculpture, Lyceum, Havana.Rita Longa
1933 Self-Portrays, Fine Arts Circle Museum, Havana.
1937 International Dance, Rockefeller Center, New York. Modern Art, Dependientes Center of Havana.
1959 Thirteen Cuban Artists, Our Time Society, Havana. Five Sculptors, Our Time Society, Havana. Sketches. National Theater, Havana.
1968 Cuban Contribution to Florencia and Venecia, Roma. Five Cuban Sculptors, URSS, Polony, Czechoslovak, Hungary, Rumanian.
1969 Group exhibition at the Havana University.
1970 70 Salon, National Museum, Havana.
1975 International Female Exposition, Jamaica. Cuban Current Plastic, Cali, Colombia.
1978 Triennial of Little Sculpture, Lennin Park. UNEAC Salon, National Museum, Havana.
1981 Collective Exposition, Gallery of Havana. Collective Exposition, Casa de la Cultura, Plaza.
1982 Images of Martí, National Museum, Havana.
1983 The Sculpture in the Revolution. National Museum, Havana.
1986 Collective Exposition II Havana Biennial.

Placements of Works
1943 She carried out Santa Rita for the Homonymus Church, Havana.
1945 Placement of Cancer at the league against Cancer, actual Oncológico Hospital.
1947 Familiar Group at the National Zoo and The Martyrs Fountain, Havana.
1948 Placement of Virgen del Camino, Havana.The Ballet Dancer. Rita Longa
1949 Torso, Architecture School of the University of Havana.
1950 Placement of Muses and Illusion at Payret Theater and Ballerine at Tropicana Cabaret
1953 Placement of Form, Space and Light, at Principal Facade of National Museum.
1955 Placement of four busts of Hatuey Indian, at diverse places of the country.
1959 Placement of Swam's Death at National Theater, Havana.
1969 Placement Solidarity and Sculptural Wall, Bentre community, Bauta. Havana Province and Butterfly at the Pedagogical Institute of Havana.
1973 Placement of Martí, Moncada's Intellectual Author and Forrest of Heroes, in Santiago de Cuba.
1974 Placement of Martí's Relief at the Cuban Embassy in Madrid.
1977 Placement of Fuente de las Antillas in Las Tunas.
1979 Placement of Majagua X, at Cuban Embassy in UNESCO.
1982 Placement of Gallo de Morón, Ciego de Ávila.
1985 Placement of Martí at Banco Popular de Ahorro, Havana.
1988 Placement of Shining in Topes de Collantes.
1989 Placement of Gema at Friendship Park, Belgrado, Yugoslavia.
1991 Monument to Martí in Oleiros, Spain. Element of Cover at Sierra Maestra.
1994 She placed signaling of Marti's route from Playitas to Dos Ríos.
1997 She made Clepsidra at Havana Libre Hotel.

Prizes
1935 First Prize at National Salon of Painting and Sculpture from Architects' college, Havana.
1936 Gold Medal at XIX Salon of Fine Arts Circle, Havana.
1945 First Prize at the Conquest Monument to the Soldier of Independent Wars.
1949 First Prize at Panamerican Congress of Architects.
1951 Prize Gold Medal Exhibition of Architectural League of New York, for her work Cancer.
1988 She received Medal Félix Varela.
1995 She received National Prize of Plastic Arts.

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




 

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