On May 24, 2015, in the context of the beginning of the Havana Biennale, the ISA Universidad de las Artes granted Doctorate Honoris Causa degrees to artists Joseph Kosuth (US, 1945), Michelangelo Pistoletto (Italy, 1933) Daniel Buren (France, 1938) and Gabriel Orozco (Mexico, 1962) in recognition of their "revolutionary work and their influence on new generations of artists." The distinction was given to artists by Rolando Patricio González, president of the institution; Julian González-Toledo, minister of culture of Cuba; Rubén Del Valle, president of the National Council of Visual Arts, and Jorge Fernández, director of the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam and director and curator of the Havana Biennale. Joseph Kosuth was given the price for his resolute rejection of the art object as form or appearance in favor of the idea of a legitimate manifestation of art. Hortensia Peramo, professor of Isa, noted that the project Cittadellarte of the Fondazione Pistoletto "connects art, science and society, with artists, ordinary people, or people working in other disciplines, brought together in a creative collaboration to intervene spaces and inspire a responsible transformation of society." About Daniel Buren, Peramo said that "the young man left the institutionalized system of galleries and without authorization spread posters and striped canvases stripes around Paris and in its metro system, in a highly provocative gesture." And finally, about Gabriel Orozco, Peramo pointed out "a child of his time, formed during the 1980s between the prestigious Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas in Xochimilco, Mexico, and the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid, [Orozco] is a tireless explorer of new materials, techniques and languages: the accumulating dust, a predilection for the qualities of the material used and the effect of its utilization, like in the work Piedra que Sede (Yielding Stone); the tensions created between shiny and worn elements, as well as placing his work on the verge of contradictions, somewhere between order and the chaos."