José Rodeiro. Morro Castle. oil-on-canvas, 2’ X 4,’ 2010.
On a beach promontory east of Morro Castle (Havana), a group of bathers rest, relaxing as the sky darkens. In their poses, the bathers allude to Paul Gauguin’s masterpiece Where Do We Come From? Who Are We? And, Where Are We Going? (1898) and Pablo Picasso’s first major abstract figural work Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907).