Ileana Mulet:
Havana on Her Canvas

It is easy to recognize a painting by Ileana Mulet. She brings a sense of mischief to the vibrant Chagall-like tipsy urban landscapes, dropping hints inviting you to search for messages hidden in surprising shapes; she calls it the game of her creation.

Old Havana, a favorite subject of Mulet's, is mystified, romanticized and exalted with a preponderance of round arches and gray stone walls, sometimes lit from the zenith, other times providing shadows enveloping the small beings (women? men? or perhaps real or imaginary fauna) beneath the attack towers or balustrades of fantastic legends.

In all the facets of her personality: myth maker, artist, writer, friend, mother; Ileana, in life as in her art, is a perfectionist. She has not forgotten the eastern province of Holguín where she was born and where, early, she imposed her art.

Restless, confident and determined, she went to the San Alejandro Fine Arts School and graduated in interior design with a specialty in tourism. She designed costumes for television and scenery for theater.

She grows in her art, receptive toward contemporary viewpoints and dissimilar tendencies, nourishing herself from exchanges and experiences everywhere that her art has traveled. Mulet exchanges, but is not influenced.

She is firm in her style and in her mission of painting the old city..