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El Último Vampiro now in the Rodríguez Collection exhibits at the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam in Reynerio Tamayo's personal exhibition "Eden Havana." 

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Tamayo’s passion for Havana is visceral and stamps all of his oeuvre. I would say, it stamps all of his life. Tamayo could paint the world but he will always be expressing his condition as a citizen of Havana: the city, its sea, its myths, its personages who are themselves in turn the city (from an Apostle to a baseball player, from a madman to a pimp, from a sorcerer of harmony to a wizard of words, from a vampire to a hustler); they literally cram his overflowed imagination, and they take shape and come alive in a body of work which, with a universal look, has a Havanan conscience. 

 

Leonardo Padura

excerpt from "Eden Havana: Reynerio Tamayo"

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