GEO Highlights
on Gallo, the postman cheval of the Caribbean
In its January issue on Cuba, the magazine GEO gives an article on Hector Pascal Gallo « postman cheval of Havana ». This former hairdresser, diplomat, Castro’s spy, ends up in 1990 in the suburbs of Havana and overcomes his severe depression by producing hundreds of small items and sculptures from everyday objects. His artwork colonise his apartment, and finally, all the ground at the foot of his building to form an environment he named Garden of affects.
The photographer Nathalie Baetens and the journalist Vincent Rea published in 2014 a wonderful book on Gallo, in sale at the library of the gallery.