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artist collective founded in
Havana
Havana (; ) is the capital and largest city of Cuba. The heart of La Habana Province, Havana is the country's main port and commercial center.Dagoberto Rodriguez Sanchez, and
Alexandre Arrechea
Alexandre Arrechea (born 1970) is a Cuban visual artist. His work explores the themes of power and its associated networks of hierarchy, surveillance, control, prohibition, and subjugation.
For twelve years, he was a member of the art collecti ...
(who left the group in 2003). In 1994 they decided "to renounce the notion of individual authorship and refer back to an older guild tradition of artisans and skilled laborers” in an attempt to emphasize their belief that art always, to some extent, involves collaboration. Both Valdes and Sanchez were born in
Cuba
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and live and work between Havana and
Madrid
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. They have exhibited in Cuba,
Europe
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and
North America
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, and have received a number of awards.
Career
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", where they derive their “inspiration from the physical world” 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.
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
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History
The museum originally opened in a space in the Graduate Center of the then-nam ...
" and the "
Contemporary Arts Center
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" in Cincinnati,
Ohio
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; "Grant Selwyn Fine Arts" in Los Angeles, CA; at the International Contemporary Art Fair ARCO'98 in Madrid; and
Art Basel Miami
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where for the 2012 edition of the fair they built the "Güiro Art Bar". They held their first solo exhibition in Asia, 'Heterotopias', at
Edouard Malingue Gallery
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in 2013.
Collections
Los Carpinteros works are included in the following permanent collections:
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Pérez Art Museum Miami
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, Florida
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Museum of Modern Art
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, New York
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Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
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Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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LACMA was founded in 1961 ...
, California
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Tate Modern
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