| 16/01/2021 – 14:35 (GMT-4)
Exiled Cuban designer and artist Rolando Pulido died Friday night at a Bronx hospital in New York City at the age of 58.
“Our dear brother, Rolando Pulido, rested last night, grateful from the bottom of his heart for all the solidarity we convey to him until the end,” announce the writer Orlando Luis Pardo Llaç.
Pulido left Cuba at the age of 18 during Mariel’s exodus in 1980. Since this year, he has lived in New York where, in addition to collaborating with the image design and advertising of emblematic places such as the Blue Note jazz club, Cooper’s bar, the Strand bookstore, or the stages of the legendary program Saturday Night Live, has provided its services to the cause for the freedom of Cuba.
For his part, Pardo previously stated that Pulido “is one of the most creative designers in Cuban civil society” and has been one of the creators of “his modern image” voluntarily, without having received any money for this work.
It was the same writer who days earlier launched a fundraising campaign to help Pulido, who was hospitalized and had lost the ability to walk.
“Our help was not used for his physical therapy. He did not have time to reach this recovery phase. Rolando spent his last days in a Bronx hospital surrounded by friends who could visit him, and care by competent and compassionate staff, “he assured.
According to the author, Polit, born in the province of Cienfuegos, was “going cold” and in solitude, needing physical therapy to allow him to walk again. “Like every handsome man, like every young man,” this situation “has dragged him to the urge to live,” he said.
On the fate of the collection, Pardo added: “We are considering immediately returning to each of you your generous help. Or propose another use, always related to the work and memory of our Rolando Pulido, but respecting his latest will not perform public tributes “.
“I am responsible for mediating with you any proposed decision, as well as communicating one to one with you,” he added. “For years and years, he has given us all the beauty of his work and the goodness of his soul,” he had previously commented on Pulido.
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