The exhibition titled "Jorge Carruana-Bances: Comics, Sex, War…" will show for the first time in Rome an important selection of works by the Cuban artist. Open to the public until May 7 at the Real Academia de España in Rome, the exhibition was curated by Cuban art historian and researcher Suset Sánchez. It offers a close look into Carruana's creative trajectory, particularly his facets as a painter, filmmaker, and illustrator. The show consists of a group of around 100 works including canvases, papers and woods that showcase Carruana's aesthetic evolution, explorations of the visual language and conceptual preoccupations from the 1960s to the 1990s. It is a survey of the imaginary and figuration of one of the fundamental representatives of Pop Art and Postmodernism in Cuba, and also a tribute to the mastery of this drawer and colorist whose work must be rewritten in the history of Cuban contemporary art. The exhibition presented at the Real Academia de España in Rome is the first exhibition to include an important part of the work by this artist, but Carruana's oeuvre is even more wide-ranging and the archives that are part of the Jorge Carruana-Bances legacy contain a notable volume of documentary material centered on this creator's work. Rome is the city where Jorge Carruana (Havana, 1940 – Rome, 1997) defined his aesthetic proposal as a daring, critical and always experimental pictorial idyll; a sort of erotic-political adventure of images that would enter into a dialog with the visual culture of the end of the 20th century, from an unbiased vision that was free from any formalist or stylistic limitations. The walk through the exhibition ends with the final work by Carruana created during the 1990s, before his sudden death in 1997. The passages in his biography reveal a commitment to political activism in several fronts, including environmental causes. It is precisely his ethical postures towards environmental policy issues and eco-sustainability what led him to painting landscapes and observing nature as the subject of representation in his last works. The audiovisual program titled "Jorge Carruana-Bances and Cuban Animation Filmmaking from the 1960s" was presented concurrently as part of the activities complementing the exhibition.