Cuban painter Kcho exhibits at the Vatican

HAVANA, Cuba, Nov 13 (ACN) The exhibition A New World, by Cuban painter and engraver Alexis Leyva (Kcho), open since Sunday to the public at the Vatican's Palazzo della Cancelleria, shows the artist's dreams of contributing to a better future.

"The most important thing for a creator is to be increasingly aware of what our role is and to subordinate individuality to something greater," Kcho said in statements to Prensa Latina, and stressed that this new exhibition responds to the call made by Pope Francis on June 23 this year, to put art at the service of humanity.

The exhibition, which from this Sunday until November 26 can be visited in that Renaissance palace, is sponsored by the Cuban Embassy to the Holy See and the Vatican's Dicastery of Culture and Education, with the participation of curator Eriberto Bettini.

At the opening ceremony, held last Saturday night, Cuban Ambassador Rene Mujica highlighted the presence of Cardinal Agostino Marchetto, Monsignor Javier Domingo Fernandez, head of Protocol of the Secretariat of State, and Angelica Ferreira, representing the Dicastery for Education and Culture.

Lucio Adrian Ruiz, secretary of the Dicastery for Communications, as well as Andrea Monda, director of the newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, the critic Luciano Caprile, the Cuban ambassador to Italy, Mirta Granda, and members of the diplomatic corps accredited to the Holy See and Rome, also attended the ceremony.