If the Cuban Art Factory is the perfect place to know the most avant-garde face of Havana art, Fusterlandia is the ideal place to know its street side. In the area of Jaimanitas, at the western end of the city, the artist José Antonio Rodríguez Fuster has his workshop. From there a collective art project emerged that spread throughout the neighborhood and has received the name of Fusterlandia.
Fuster says that after seeing Gaudí’s work in Barcelona and Brancusi’s in Romania, he was fascinated with their art and wanted to work some of that magic in his own environment. The idea was to turn his workshop into a place where he could live with art, but he did not dream in that environment that his project would expand in the way it finally did.
In 1975 he decorated his own house with colorful mosaics and he was finished he invited his neighbors to join the project. Soon he began to receive the proposal to extend his art on countless fronts that were offered as blank canvases. Thus was born Fusterlandia, a community art project that over time has been enriched with the participation of other local and international artists.
