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Los Carpinteros
Over the past decade, Los Carpinteros (Marco Castillo and Dagoberto Rodriguez) have collaborated to develop their own poetic direction that functions in the imprecise boundary between art and craft traditions. Their carefully crafted works use humor to exploit a visual syntax that sets up contradictions among object, function
and language.
Los Carpinteros have emerged as a vital force in the new, expanded terrain of global art. They live and work in Havana and continue to travel and exhibit in the United States, South America, Europe, Africa and China. For example: a major wall drawing was included in Drawing Now, at the Museum of Modern Art-Queens, New York; their Transportable City was exhibited at the 7th Havana Biennial and at PS1 Contemporary Art Center in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Contemporary Art Museum of Hawaii in Honolulu. In March 2004, they exhibited a new body of work including drawings and large-scale wood sculptures at the Anthony Grant, Inc. in New York City. In 2005 their exhibition, Inventing the World, premiered at the USF Contemporary Art Museum, and is touring the US.
The sculpture Panera, published in an edition of 5, is a series of breadboxes, constructed of hardwood maple in the shape and actual size of a missile, and poised horizontally on two handmade sawhorses. Los Carpinteros often comment on the adverse situations and ironies presented by daily life in Havana. For Panera the artists alter a familiar domestic object to exploit and pervert meaning. Panera’s exacting fabrication evokes the celebrated ebanistería or fine furniture making practiced in colonial Cuba, which was experiencing a revival as the restoration of Old Havana began in the 1990s, when Los Carpinteros started working.
Coco Solo is a lithograph in an edition of 20. This image was hand drawn by the artists and is based on a series of drawings of sandals with maps of Havana neighborhoods on the soles. Los Carpinteros typically first develop their ideas in large scale watercolor drawings which curator Laura Hoptman calls complete ideas, or “working drawings.” These renderings may later find further expression in sculpture, installations or prints.
The sculpture multiple Sandalia is an edition of 60. The object is produced from a rapid prototype model and cast in rubber. By producing a limited edition of rubber sandals with relief maps of Havana neighborhoods on the soles, the artists adapted an ordinary object of mass production into a customized and poeticized icon that speaks of place, identity and culture. Sandalia derives from a series of watercolor drawings of sandals with maps. The right sandal depicts Old Havana, the left Vedado.
Los Carpinteros produced print and sculpture editions in residence at Graphicstudio in the Spring of 2004.
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Artist's Talk with Marco Castillo of
Los Carpinteros
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Los Carpinteros Catalog
USF Institute for Research in Art has published an extensive artist's
catalog, Los Carpinteros on the Cuban collaborative of artists known as Los
Carpinteros. They have produced work at Graphicstudio, and had an exhibition, Los Carpinteros: Inventing the World, at the USF Contemporary Art Museum in 2005. This catalog along with other publications can be purchased at CAM's Museum Store.
For more information on Los Carpinteros, visit their website.
Links to other sites related to the artists:
Guggenheim Museum
Contemporary Museum Honolulu
MoMA
ASU Art Museum
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