| 16/01/2021 – 14:35 (GMT-4)
Exiled Cuban designer and artist Rolando Pulido died Friday night at a hospital in the Bronx, New York, at the age of 58.
“Our beloved brother, Rolando Pulido, rested last night, grateful from the bottom of his heart for all the solidarity we all send him to the end,” announced the writer Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo.
Pulido left Cuba at the age of 18 during the Mariel exodus of 1980. Since that year, he has lived in New York where, in addition to collaborating with image design and advertising on landmarks such as Blue Note Jazz Club, Cooper’s Bar, Strand Bookstore or the stages of the legendary Saturday Night Live program, for the cause of Cuba’s freedom.
For his part, Pardo previously stated that Pulido “is one of the most creative designers in Cuban civil society” and was voluntarily one of the creators of “his modern image”, without being charged any money for this work.
The writer himself launched a fundraising campaign a few days earlier to help Pulido, who was hospitalized and lost the ability to walk.
“Our help was never used for his physical therapy. There was no time to reach that recovery phase. Rolando spent his last days in a Bronx hospital surrounded by friends who could visit him and be cared for by a competent and compassionate staff, “he said.
As the author had explained, Pulido, born in the province of Cienfuegos, felt “cold” and lonely, needing physical therapy to allow him to walk again. “Like any handsome man, like any young man, this situation” weighed his will to live, “he said.
Regarding the destination of the collection, Pardo added: “We are thinking of immediately returning the generous help of each of you. Or propose another use, always related to the work and memory of our Rolando Pulido, but respecting his last wish not to pay homage ”.
“I am responsible for mediating with you any proposed decision, as well as for communicating with you in turn,” he added. “For years and years he has endowed us all with the beauty of his work and the goodness of his soul,” he had previously commented to Pulido.
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