Elizam Escobar will be veiled this Thursday between 4pm and 7pm at the Casa de los Contrafuertes, Calle San Sebastián, Old San Juan, where he held precisely his last exhibition in his life.
In accordance with a permit issued for the celebration of the vigil, it is necessary to follow all protocols for adherence to strict COVID-19 prevention measures.
The artist and former political prisoner died on January 15, at the age of 72, after years of battling cancer.
The educator was also a member of an underground pro-independence movement in Puerto Rico, charged with inflammatory conspiracy in 1980 and sentenced to 68 years in prison by the US government. He never stopped painting and writing about the theory of art and poetry. He was released in 1999 and returned to the island to exhibit and join the faculty of Puerto Rico’s School of Plastic Arts and Design.