Kadir Lopez Nieves, born 1972 in Las Tunas, a provincial Cuban town, parlayed his artistic vision to transform historical icons into works of art. Throughout the history of art many creators have taken the past as a source of inspiration. Images and symbols belonging to olden times in the Island's capital, in becoming "recovered" remembrances through artistic imagery, also acquire a novel expressive and conceptual potential channels in the recent work of artist, painter and sculptor Kadir Lopez Nieves. His presence has become essential not only in the local contemporary art scene, but also in the international biennials of Havana where he routinely surprises critics, spectators, gallery owners and collectors with his recurring iconographic experiments. Kadir's pieces are made on top of original publicity signs of the 1950's as supports for the photographic images of the Havana of those days to show through. The works are not intended as a wink at longing or nostalgia or the values associated with the recent past. Rather they arise from and promote further serious and daring research on an era that absolutely requires much more scrutiny yet, in order to better apprehend its derivations and determinations over the Island's current life.