Havana, cuba.-The Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez walks from today in a courtyard of the historic center of this capital thanks to the work and grace of an art that Cuban José Villa Soberón fully masters sculpture.

Known as the resuscitator, Villa Soberón, 2008 National Plastic Arts Prize, made the sculptures of John Lennon in a park in this capital, and Ernest Hemingway in what was his favorite bar-restaurant in Havana, El Floridita.

Also by the work of Villa Soberón, Mother Teresa of Calcutta travels peacefully by the garden of the Convent of St. Francis of Assisi in Havana; and outside the building itself el Caballero de París (the Knight of Paris)- an urban legend of the city – walks among pigeons and tourists.

The garden of the Artistic and Literary Lyceum of Havana in Marquis of Arcos Palace was the chosen stage for the sculpture inspired by the moment when the prolific writer and journalist attended the Nobel Prize for Literature reception ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1982.

Many people were dressed in tail suits and on top of them they wore their decorations, while Garcia Marquez arrived with a liquiliqui (traditional Llanos suit, a geographic region of South America located between Venezuela and Colombia), Villa Soberón recalled in a dialogue with Prensa Latina.

In one of his hands, he brought some books and in the other a yellow flower, he added admiringly and as he confessed, when he chooses an image that he can connect with, he agrees to work alone.

The art piece already exists in Colombia, because it was commissioned to the Cuban plastic artist to place it in the Museum of the Caribbean in Barranquilla, but the current ambassador of that South American country in Havana, Gustavo Bell, insisted on installing a copy here, in a city visited many times by the author.

According to Villa Soberón, the context of the 26th International Book Fair, celebrated in the Cuban capital from February 9 to 19, provides the appropriate framework to inaugurate the piece as it pays homage to García Márquez for the 90 years of his birth and 50 of the publication of One Hundred Years of Solitude.