Abstract
work object of study and intervention is part of a set of murals and sculptures with artistic value for the Cuban Cultural Heritage. This set is located in the Hotel Habana-Riviera, an important exponent of modern Cuban architecture, dating from 1957. López Dirube makes the mural that concerns us with mixed techniques and with a plastic expression that takes the universal of constructivism and the autochthonous of one of the African cultures inserted in Cuba during the 19th century slavery process: the ahak1W / l culture. The artistic conception includes its own lighting system with thirteen light sources, distributed along the length and width of the structural surface, plastically related to each other. The maintenance of the lighting system by non-specialized building personnel made conservation actions difficult over time, so it was decided to carry out plastic transformations to the work. Floods and architectural expansion work caused other damage. The result of a patient historical, archaeological, technological and etiological research work, made possible a diagnosis and treatment to rescue the lost original image.