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Fusterlandia
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For years, artist Jose Rodriguez Fuster has worked with the community of Jaimanita to give new life to the exteriors of 80 buildings. His colorful mosaic work is in a naive style, something like Antoni Gaudi, yet with a very Cuban aesthetic. His project has helped the community by bringing tourists’ attention and dollars to the neighborhood. You can see Fuster’s work on 80 renovated homes in this neighborhood. The family medical office and the bus stop are just a couple of his commissions worth checking out.
Gilberto “Papito”
November 7, 2016
Indawo
Havana, Havana
Amacebiso avela kubantu bendawo
Maykel
May 11, 2018
Mr Fuster is transforming Jaimanitas neigborhood in a very particular way. Pay him a visit !
Nancy
August 28, 2017
A Cuban artist reclaimed his impoverished neighborhood as a dreamy folk art kingdom. Cuban artist José Fuster’s art is “naïve,” meaning he uses childlike crude shapes and bright colors in his untrained composition. His work has been compared to that of Picasso, a comparison that followed him in successful gallery tours across Europe.
Mario & Yoly
May 23, 2022
José Fuster has turned his home neighborhood into a masterpiece of intricate tilework and kaleidoscopic colors – a street-art extravaganza. The centerpiece is Fuster’s own house, Taller-Estudio José Fuster, a sizable residence decorated from roof to foundations by art, sculpture and – above all – mosaic tiles of every color and description.
Yohan
July 22, 2018
Todo un barrio intervenido por el artista cubano Fuster. A whole neighborhood intervened by the Cuban artist Fuster.
Carol
September 20, 2017
In 1975, after moving into a modest wood house in the rundown neighborhood of Jaimanitas outside Havana, José Fuster set about decorating his studio in colorful mosaic. Once he was done there, he asked his neighbors if he could decorate their homes and business as well. A few accepted his offer and the tile creations grew. Over the course of a decade, doctors’ offices, bus stops, fountains, benches, gateways, and more were enveloped by Fuster’s whimsical imagination. Today, his artwork coats the neighborhood in a rainbow of strange, enchanting fantasy. Jaimanitas was an economically depressed area before Fuster arrived, and now it has turned into an artist’s paradise.
In 1975, after moving into a modest wood house in the rundown neighborhood of Jaimanitas outside Havana, José Fuster set about decorating his studio in colorful mosaic. Once he was done there, he asked his neighbors if he could decorate their homes and business as well. A few accepted his offer and…
