Exposition of boxes. (Pictures: Courtesy of the author)

During our childhood, we shape ideas about the future work we want for our lives as adults. We change our dreams on our own free will because of difficulties of life, what does not seem to be the case of Enzo Jorge Arce Morales, a ten-year-old child who assures that since he was four, he decided firmly to be a painter.

Since that tender age, Enzo spends every leisure time in front of a sheet of paper, and with pencils and crayons in hand, has achieved his first personal exposition, in the halls of the Municipal Administration of Culture (DMC) of Cerro municipality, located on Cerro Avenue- in between – San Pablo and Auditor.

Full of pride, the little artist shows a great deal of works which he brings in his briefcase, and explains name and origin of each one of them: “This one is abstract. In all those geometric figures, one can see what he wants. See, if you turn it this way, you will see a house…another here. This may be a flower, but it can be a dragon, as well.”

Some of the drawings show, from the conceptual point of view, a particular mastery of a painter of great experience. In the most recent ones, you can appreciate the acquired knowledge from his two professors: Pedro Miguel González Pulido, from the community cultural center Cintio Vitier, of the Vedado neighborhood, and Pablo Ojeda of the academy of arts and crafts Las Parras, located in Centro Habana municipality.

The latter wrote in the catalogue of the exposition, “/ / Enzo wants to catch us in a speech that might seem ingenuous, but it is quite the opposite. His visual creativity is involved in the technical necessity to say more to us. It is a convincing reason that we are in front of a small creator /… /.

The sample, entitled Something out of me, that was appreciated for the public until October 14 in the DMC of Cerro municipality, counts on 15 works: among them, collages, etchings, color pencils, crayons, and still others made with pencil. All of them with paper support.”

“After they remove the exposition, I think of taking it tomy school and later on, to the Academy of Arts and Crafts Las Parras”.

To the question –necessary-about his plans for the future, without hesitation, he answers, “I will continue with my work on plastic arts, to be able to enroll at San Alejandro School, and then in the University of Arts; so that, when hebecomes a grown up, he would like to be afamous painter.”

Enzo Jorge studies the sixth grade of primary school at Raúl Silvio Vega Quintero from Cerro municipality. His parents assure that the boy likes school; he is a very diligent boy who fulfills his school works and gets good results.

Hand glass temple.

Figurative animal.

Face with tongues.

Vase of stories.

(Translated by Reinaldo Fernández)