Montebravo was here for his enormously successful show which ran through July and August, 2000, and was here for the current exhibit as well. The show is an exceptionally eclectic one, ranging from primitivist styles to post-modern and installation art. Other artists in the show are Elias F. Acosta, Rafael Cáceres, Erik Castillo, Juan Carlos Echeverría, Fito, Oswaldo, Adrian Rumbaut, Sanfiel, Santiago, Susy, Toledo, Nestor Vega and Wayacón, each with distinct styles. Acosta, Cáceres, Oswaldo and Vega work together in the presigious print workshop in Cienfuegos. Rumbaut, like Pérez, is part of Grupo Punto, an exciting group of young sculptors in Cienfuegos; his works in the Art Space show are painting/installations and Pérez' are small sculptures.

Echeverría, who was part of Grupo Punto but is now working solo, does wall sculptures which deal with emigration and the pain of family separation (his young daughter left cuba with her mother). Many of the prints of Cáceres also deal with emigration and there is a moving small series of monotypes inspired by the 1994 exodus. Wayacón, who at 67 is the oldest of the group, is one of the few "outsider" artists in Cuba—the Art Space will present a one-man show of his works in the spring. Susy, the only woman in the show, does intricate small works of papier mâché, many of them dealing with the Afro-Cuban syncretic religion of Santería, for example, in her rendering of Babalu-Ayé (St. Lazarus) and Yemayá.

In fact, several of the artists in the show use symbols and substance of Afro-Cuban religion in their work—besides Susy, the works of Santiago and Toledo, as well as the aluminum sculptures of Erik Castillo, all gain their inspiration from Santería. Many of Wayacón's early works, especially his sculptures, also showed the influence of African religion; his later works seem more influenced by the Catholicism of his wife who died last year.