Jose Manuel García Rebustillos

“…Cuba, and particularly Havana, exert such a high creative influence that there comes a moment when we no longer know to whom the work belongs… whether to the artist creating it, or to that powerful environment that directs us all (and this is my suspicion) and that creates the artist himself as the ultimate ecstasy of creation… and everything becomes more challenging when we try to give an opinion, especially regarding his ‘Habaneras’… those women who make us look indiscreetly at their mischievous eyes, their voluptuous mouths, or their firm hips, from which only Rebustillos lets us see the flowers they pluck with their sensual movements as they walk… Is Rebustillos the true creator?... Or is it that these beautiful women have created him, to serve as an instrument of creative perfection, where the authorship of this genius cannot be identified, this desire that everyone has to own one of these pieces, the desire of every Cuban woman to see her face reflected in one of them, or that of a man, who enjoys them with expert eyes, secretly, like that ideal woman he wishes to hold in his arms…”