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In
1998 The Mora Brothers made a full-sized papier maché Chevrolet
which was purchased by French gallery owner and collector Jean-Marc
Ville. It
stands outside Ville's home in Havana.
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Yanoski
Mora in his studio in Regla, Havana: in 2000 the Mora Brothers
made a life-size Harley Davidson motorcycle complete with moving
parts. It was shown at the Cuban FIART Fair PabExpo in 2001 and
has since been bought by a North American collector.
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Ibrahim
Ferrer, lead singer of the Buena Vista Social Club owns a Filiberto
Mora's Camión Cubano - Cuban lorry-bus. In the 1990s when economic
support from the Soviet Union ended, Cuba ran short of everything,
including buses, and lorries began to be used again 'country style'
to carry people around, particularly in places like Santiago de Cuba
where both Ferrer and the Mora Brother's father come from. This lorry
has on board a Santería priest with a cockerel on his knee ready for
sacrifice, a country music singer, tourists, a woman with a baby and
a militia man. On the sides are written the names of two of Cuba's
top music groups: Los Van Van and La Original de Manzanillo. These
lorries are sold at the main Gallery in Old Havana or made to commission.
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Another
commissioned Mora lorry in the home of French collector Jean-Marc
Ville in Havana. |
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| In
May 2001 Filiberto Mora made a fleet of model
Porsches for telecommunications company Ebone who were racing
a real Porsche in competitive rallys across Europe |
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Mo
Fini and Cuban singer Yusa in front of
the Tumi stand at the WOMEX Fair, Germany
October 2002.
In
October 2002 Mo Fini of TUMI Music UK commissioned Mora to make
a Cuban lorry with various Tumi Cuban artists in
the back including Candido Fabré, David Alvárez, and
Yusa. He also commissioned a separate motor-bike and side car with
Fini driving and Peruvian singer Susana Baca in the side-car to
celebrate Susana Baca winning a 2002 Grammy with the record Lamento
Negro brought out by Tumi music TUMI104.
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Cubanos - We Are Cubans' is a Filiberto Mora piece containing six
'typical' Cubans looking out of balcony windows (from left to right
from top and bottom): a baseball player, a trade union leader, a Santero
(a priest of the Afro-Cuban religion, Santería); a tobacco farmer;
a militia man; and a teacher. Together wth a companion piece 'Somos
Cubanos de Miami'- 'We Are Cubans From Miami', with a different set
of personna, it is part of a private collection in North America,
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In
summer 2000 the Mora Brothers, with artist Lyver Chavez, made the
set for the music show Lady Salsa, which transfered from the Edinburgh
Festival and is now on in London's West End. They made three giant
Saints for the stage, one of which is Santa Barbara. In the Afro-Cuban
religion of Santeria, which emerged from the culture of Africans brought
as slaves, Catholic Saints are paired with Afro-Cuban Gods called
Orishas. Each Saint/Orisha has songs, music and dances for sacred
ceremonies and popular parties called bembés. Santa Barbara (Saint
Barbara) patron of miners and gunners and of those in danger of sudden
death is paired with the deity Changó, symbol of fire, thunderbolts
and passion. Changó lives at the top of palm trees and talks through
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In Autumn 2000
the Mora Brothers were commissioned by French artists Herve Di Rosa of the
the Musée International des Arts Modestes in the French town of Séte, to
make a set of forty Saints and Orisha Deities of the Afro-Cuban Santería
religion for part of the opening exhibition, the Caravan of Spirituality.
On the right is the Afro-Cuban deity Osaín, now in the collection
of the Musée des Arts Modestes
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The Afro-Cuban Orisha Yemayá and the Black Virgin of Regla,
patroness of Havana, collection of the Musée des Arts Modestes.
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The Afro-Cuban deity Changó and Santa Barbara, collection
of the Musée des Arts Modestes.
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Filiberto
Mora, French artist Hervé Di Rosa and Yanoski Mora holding
various Saints and Orishas outside the museum in Séte. |
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