Lolo Soldevilla (Dolores Soldevilla Nieto). Cuban painter, sculptor, draftsman and printmaker. One of the most important representatives of the geometric abstract movement and kineticism. She stood out for her praiseworthy actions as a promoter of Cuban art, both inside and outside the country. Soldevilla’s poetry, which was always based on her experimentation, made important contributions to Cuban art. Loló Soldevilla began painting in 1948 motivated, according to family references, by the close friendship she had with Wifredo Lam. A year later she settled in the French capital, where she studied sculpture at the Grande Chaumière academy, making frequent trips to Cuba to expose her multiple experiences.

She returned to France and in mid-1951 she entered the workshop of the abstract painters Dewasne and Pillet, with whom she worked for two years. At the same time, she attended a course by Professors Hayter and Cochet on engraving techniques. The exchanges she had with representatives of the School of Paris defined, to a large extent, the meaning of her work, to the point of causing a significant change in her creative process. She joined the so-called Parisian Avant-garde and participated in its exhibitions.

She was a professor at the School of Architecture at the capital’s university, and belonged to the editorial staff of the Granma Newspaper. From her aesthetic approaches emerges the plastic group Espacio. Much talked about was her exhibition Op art, Pop art, the moon and I, at the Habana Gallery. The author of the ballet in two acts Filo ten thousand, she also practiced literature in the chronicles Go, come, go again and the novel El Farol, among other works. After the revolutionary triumph she carried out other tasks, such as professor of plastic arts at the School of Architecture (1960-1961), toy designer at the National Institute of the Tourism Industry (INIT, 1962) and editor of the newspaper Granma (1965). -1971).

In 1965 she founded the plastic group Espacio and, in 1966, the Habana Gallery presented her exhibition Op art, pop art, the moon and me. She ventured into literature and also practiced, with notable successes, art criticism. Among her titles are Go, come, go again (chronicles), El farol and Bombardeo. After an intense life in the cultivation of the arts, Loló Soldevilla from Pinar del Río died in 1971. Her lush imagination recreated subjugating shapes, colors, light, gave a very special optic to her painting registered in the best of the Vanguard.

After her death, a large retrospective of her work was organized in the gallery of the Ministry of Public Health building. In 2006, the National Museum of Fine Arts (Cuba) in Havana exhibited an anthological exhibition of her work with the title Loló: an imaginary world. His works have been included in two important international exhibition projects organized in this century: Art of Cuba, a traveling exhibition through several Brazilian cities (2006), and Cuba: Art and History. From 1968 to the present, at the Museum of Fine Arts in Montreal, Canada (2008) and at the Groninger Museum, Holland (from May to September 2009).