Long Weekend Art Gallery
A curated space celebrating creativity and connection — showcasing contemporary works of the artists of the chosen destination.
Featured Artists: 2+2=5? and Fichu
Havana, Cuba
Long Weekend is proud to welcome two voices from the streets of Havana. Fabian Lopez — known internationally as "The Banksy of Havana" — has spent his career using his balaclava-clad character Supermalo to confront socio-political tension and the quiet weight of everyday struggle. His signature equation, 2+2=5?, is less a statement than an invitation: to look closer, to question what we accept, to sit with the discomfort of an answer that doesn't add up. His murals blanket nearly every street in Havana — censored repeatedly, painted back defiantly. Alongside him, Dennys Arroyo — known as Fichu — brings a rawer, more visceral urgency: the white-eyed mulattos that haunt his walls aren't ghosts, but the hidden faces of a society still learning to look at itself. Rooted in the gestures, scars, and memory of Old Havana's popular neighborhoods, Fichu's work is painted not for decoration but for testimony — not for approval, but for permanence. Together, Lopez and Fichu bring to Long Weekend something the streets of Cuba have long known: that a wall, in the right hands, becomes a manifesto.
Fabian Lopez aka 2+2=5?
"29 year old Fabian Lopez is an internationally acclaimed street artist from Havana, Cuba. Often dubbed "The Banksy of Havana", Lopez expresses thoughts on socio-political issues mixed with the daily struggles of life thru his balaclava clad character, Supermalo.His signature, "2+2=5?" means that something is wrong with the world but we choose to ignore it. The equation begs one to think on many different levels...to second guess things. Lopez’s murals can be found on nearly every street in Havana. Often censored but never wavering."Visit their website for more information and pricing.
Dennys Arroyo aka Fichu
"From the vibrant heart of Old Havana I use graffiti and muralism as tools for self-expression, not for decoration. The white-eyed mulattos that inhabit my walls are not ghosts: they are the hidden faces of a society that has not been able to look at itself in the mirror. My suburbal and visceral aesthetics collect the gestures, tensions and scars of the popular Cuban neighborhood. I paint from urgency and memory. Each stroke seeks to make the denied realities visible, to restore shape to the marginalized.My art is testimony, I do not seek approval: I seek permanence. On an island where street art is still lived with fear, I decide to make the wall a manifesto. I grew up on the asphalt, among streets that speak loudly. And that's why, I don't paint to please. I paint so they don't forget."
Art by Fabian Lopez (2+2=5?)
Art by Fabian Lopez (2+2=5?)
Art by Fabian Lopez (2+2=5?)
Art by Fabian Lopez (2+2=5?)
Art by Dennys Arroyo (Fichu)
Art by Dennys Arroyo (Fichu)
Art by Dennys Arroyo (Fichu)
Art by Dennys Arroyo (Fichu)
Featured Artist: Reynerio Tamayo, Havana
Our first featured artist at the Long Weekend Art Gallery is the painter Reynerio Tamayo. We were introduced to Tamayo on our most recent visit to Havana. We were able to spend many days with him, touring his painter friends' galleries and locations of the City which have been particularly inspiring to him. The highlight of our time with Tamayo though, was at his own Gallery, which doubles as an art school and theatre for Children. His Gallery is a sanctuary of hope, expression and opportunity through art, for many kids in Havana. We are honored to share his art here in San Francisco, and we’re pleased to be able to provide support to his ongoing work with kids in Havana.
The Artist: Tamayo
Ron La Rampa 2024 Medium: Mixed technique on canvas (70 x 50 cm). Theme: "Puro Ron Habanero" (Pure Havana Rum), emphasizing Cuban heritage and artistry.
Storm Cocktail 2023 Medium: Serigraphy on canvas (70 x 50 cm). Theme: A creative exploration of Artemis, blending art and storytelling.
Ron Mambo King 2024 Medium: Mixed technique on canvas (70 x 50 cm). Theme: Celebrates Cuban rum culture, featuring references to Pablo Picasso and Sotheby’s. Tagline: "¡Qué rico el mambo!" (How delicious the mambo!)
Artist Overview
Tamayo has consistently positioned himself as both chronicler and satirist within the Cuban artistic tradition. His work integrates narration and humor as fundamental tools, offering a perspective that is simultaneously critical and celebratory of Cuban identity. Over the course of his career, Tamayo has engaged deeply with the contradictions of Cuban society, foregrounding cultural values, collective memory, and the everyday experiences of his people while remaining independent from ideological or stylistic alignments.
Central to Tamayo’s practice is a relentless artistic discipline, one that transcends temporary fashions, political discourse, or the commodifying pressures of tourism. His limitations and personal struggles, rather than restricting his expression, have become a generative force that propels his constant reinvention. In this sense, his art resonates with a broader Cuban ethos: the desire to transcend temporal conditions and assert continuity in the face of historical instability.
Intertextuality, repetition, and irony emerge as symbolic strategies in Tamayo’s oeuvre, situating his work within the unique historical and geopolitical context of the island. Cuban history, often described as immobilized or aplatanada, nevertheless pulses with hope and a capacity for renewal. Tamayo reflects this dynamic by articulating both collective and individual efforts toward emancipation and creative resurgence.
His art, forged in dialogue with cultural resilience, engages directly with the forces—political upheavals, natural disasters, and social transformations—that shape Cuban life. Through his work, Tamayo demonstrates how artistic practice becomes both memory and celebration, integrating traditions such as rum and festivity into symbolic expressions of identity. This cultural synthesis, maintained over more than twenty-five years, defines his production as a profound contribution not only to Cuban art but also to the anthropology of culture itself.
As our first featured artist at the Long Weekend, we are pleased to present nine of his works. Visitors to the Gallery at the Long Weekend can enjoy his art while sipping on the cocktails and spirits featured by him on canvas. Studio quality prints of the art are available for purchase at the gallery, and at the culmination of the show, the art will be sold at a closing auction. 100% of the proceeds of the art is donated to Tamayo’s art school for children in Havana.