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 Los Carpinteros (The Carpenters) are three Cuban artists: Daboberto Rodriguez
Sanchez, b. 1969; Marco Antonio Castillo Valdes, born 1971; and
Alexandre Arrechea, born 1970. See their individual artist records on AskART.com
This is a Havana-based collective, which has created some of the most
important work to emerge from Cuba in the past decade. Formed in
1991, the trio until the departure of Alexandre Arrechea in June 2003,
adopted their name in 1994, deciding to renounce the notion of
individual authorship and refer back to an older guild tradition of
artisans and skilled laborers. Interested in the intersection
between art and society, the group merges architecture, design, and
sculpture in unexpected and often humorous ways. They create
installations and drawings which negotiate the space between the
functional and the nonfunctional. The group's elegant and
mordantly humorous sculptures, drawings, and installations draw their
inspiration from the physical world—particularly that of
furniture. Their carefully crafted works use humor to exploit a
visual syntax that sets up contradictions among object and function
as well as practicality and uselessness.
For Los Carpinteros, drawing has played an integral role as a mock
technical draft or form of a blue print that suggests not only a
process of artistic elaboration but also a form of architectural or
carpentry plans.
Los Carpinteros's pieces are part of the permanent collections of the
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, New York,
the Guggenheim Museum, New York, the Museo de Bellas Artes, Havana, the
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, the
Thyssen-Bornemisza Contemporary Art Foundation, Vienna, Austria and the
Centro Cultural de Arte Contemporaneo in Mexico City. They have
participated in U.S. exhibitions at the New Museum, P.S. 1, the Museum
of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum, Art in General, Artists Space and
Arizona State University.
Los Carpinteros live and work in Havana, Cuba.
Source:
http://www.skny.com/artists/los-carpinteros/bio/
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