Exhibition
The Cuban artists Los Carpinteros have a different strategy and position. They are interested in the points at which art and society intersect, the fusion of architecture, design and sculpture. This then gives form to surprising works that are at times comical and poetic, yet without sidelining a critical and political dimension connected to the context in which their work is elaborated: Cuba.
Hence this series of swimming pools brought together at Le Grand Café: luxury objects banned in Cuba that have become phantasmagorical for the artists who, practicing the art of reversal and of the absurd, make them into a sort of inverted island, a negative space.
They are, when all is said and done, a commentary on the collapse of Cuban infrastructures and a powerful voyage into the imagination.
Artworks
171 x 219 x 78 cm
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary's collection Vienna
Courtesy Galerie In Situ Fabienne Leclerc, Paris
152 x 163 cm
Courtesy Galerie In Situ Fabienne Leclerc, Paris
70,5 x 99,5 cm
Courtesy Galerie In Situ Fabienne Leclerc, Paris
4 x 33 x 15 cm
Courtesy Galerie In Situ Fabienne Leclerc, Paris
130 x 150 x 150 cm
Courtesy Galerie In Situ Fabienne Leclerc, Paris
75,5 x 112 cm
Courtesy Galerie In Situ Fabienne Leclerc, Paris
220 x 230 x 100cm
Courtesy Galerie In Situ Fabienne Leclerc, Paris
125 x 345 x 510 cm
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary's collection, Vienna
Production : Atelier Calder, Estuaire 2007, and Galerie In Situ Fabienne Leclerc
Biography
Los Carpinteros is a trio of artists, Alexandre Arrechea, Dagoberto Rodríguez Sánchez and Marco Castillo Valdés founded in 1992.
