Based on a fictitious trip to Havana, where the emblematic American Pop artist returns for a mojito, Flavio Garciandía pays homage to Jasper Johns and appropriates referents of Cuban informal and neo-concrete abstraction to address the issue of the tropical. Recurring graceful shades in pastel colors; the flat, shimmering, almost voluptuous texture of the paint; the sarcastic allusion to the mojito as an emblem of tropical exoticism and hedonism all illustrate his interest in establishing a dialogue between the context of national modernity and the broader scope of international art. With extensive work that includes drawing, painting, installation, and video, Garciandía belongs to the so-called generation of the 1970s in Cuba. He graduated from the Instituto Superior de Arte in 1980 and had a remarkable influence on Cuban art of the 1980s and 1990s.