Mascara Ritual: Quimbundo. Sobadembo.Lunda-Quioco.Muquixe. "Ritual Mask"

About the Work

From the Artist

I started to study the masks—of great beauty and strength—and to try to combine the African with European influences, and I incorporated all that wealth [into] my world of cattle and oxen…Africa was summed up in the African masks’ smell of the dancer, the taste, the dust…and also elements that make up the Cuban nationality, which is a legacy of the Black continent. 
_{—Adapted from https://cuba50.org/2020/12/19/rafael-zarza-wins-cuban-national-visual-arts-prize-2020/, accessed 6-14-2022}