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Los Carpinteros
FormationHavana, Cuba, 1992
Region served
Worldwide
Official language
Spanish

Los Carpinteros is a Cuban artist collective founded in Havana in 1992 by Marco Antonio Castillo Valdes, Dagoberto Rodriguez Sanchez, and Alexandre Arrechea (who left the group in 2003).[1] In 1994 they decided "to renounce the notion of individual authorship and refer back to an older guild tradition of artisans and skilled laborers”[2] in an attempt to emphasize their belief that art always, to some extent, involves collaboration.[3] Both Valdes and Sanchez were born in Cuba and live and work between Havana and Madrid.[1] They have exhibited in Cuba, Europe and North America, and have received a number of awards.

Career

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In their work the artists incorporate aspects of architecture, design and sculpture to create installations and drawings that “negotiate the space between the functional and the nonfunctional",[2] where they derive their “inspiration from the physical world”[2] and express their interest in the intersection of art and society in a humorous manner. Los Carpinteros create a response to places, spaces and objects, how they have been conceived, built, used and abandoned.[4]

Los Carpinteros - Clavos Torcidos

Between personal exposures are those made in the 90s in the ' "Centro de Arte 23 y 12" Cuba. They have been exhibited at "The New Museum of Contemporary Art"[5] and the "Contemporary Arts Center" in Cincinnati, Ohio;[6] "Grant Selwyn Fine Arts" in Los Angeles, CA;[7] at the International Contemporary Art Fair ARCO'98 in Madrid;[citation needed] and Art Basel Miami where for the 2012 edition of the fair they built the "Güiro Art Bar".[8] They held their first solo exhibition in Asia, 'Heterotopias', at Edouard Malingue Gallery in 2013.[9]

Permanent collections

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Their works are included in the permanent collections of museum institutions in the United States and abroad. Examples are Pérez Art Museum Miami,[10] Florida; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California; the Tate Modern, London; and the Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid, among others.[11]

References

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  1. ^ a b [pumestudio.com], PUM! estudio. "Los Carpinteros". loscarpinteros.net (in Spanish). Retrieved 2017-03-29.
  2. ^ a b c "Los Carpinteros". Sean Kelly. Retrieved 31 October 2015.
  3. ^ "Los Carpinteros: Seeing Double | ARTnews". www.artnews.com. 2013-06-24. Retrieved 2017-03-29.
  4. ^ "Los Carpinteros". Archived from the original on 2013-12-02. Retrieved 2013-11-25.
  5. ^ "New Museum - Digital Archive". archive.newmuseum.org. Retrieved 2017-03-29.
  6. ^ "Los Carpinteros - Contemporary Arts Center". www.contemporaryartscenter.org. Retrieved 2017-03-29.
  7. ^ "Los Carpinteros Biography – Los Carpinteros on artnet". www.artnet.com. Retrieved 2019-01-29.
  8. ^ "Güiro Art Bar / Los Carpinteros + Absolut Art Bureau". ArchDaily. 2012-12-21. Retrieved 2019-11-15.
  9. ^ SCMP 48 hrs Magazine, “Art Preview: Los Carpinteros Turn Confusion Into An Art Form”, October 23 2013
  10. ^ "Conga Irreversible (Irreversible Conga) • Pérez Art Museum Miami". Pérez Art Museum Miami. Retrieved 2023-08-07.
  11. ^ "Los Carpinteros". www.artnet.com. Retrieved 2023-07-28.
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