Wall 8 - Eric Cato

Wall 8

Guanabo Beach, Havana, Cuba 2003

Edition: This print’s dimensions are 20 x 20.9” (50.8 x 53.1 cm). Each print is available for purchase as one of this limited edition of twelve (12) signed and numbered archival media photographic prints; prints numbered 1 & 2 are $450.

About: Guanabo Beach is 15 to 20 miles east of Havana… its a lovely wide white sand beach and must have been popular before the Revolution. The road just ended at the edge of the beach. As I was taking it in, I saw a large abandoned pre-revolution pink building in a grove of palms at the edge of the beach 60 or so meters from road. It must have been a large bar-restaurant, dance hall, and as I walked around this interior wall was visible from outside; I was intrigued because this painting seemed so intentional and yet there was no surviving pictorial element. Now that I think about it, based on the painting’s two primary colors blue and yellow, it was probably a simple trompe l’oeil of sand and sea in squarish ‘frame’ painted on what was once a rose pink wall.

Installation photo(s): [hyperlink to its page in the Index-A Installation page