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Frío Estudio del Desastre

source: tba21org

Cinder blocks, concrete, fishing nylon
Dimensions site specific

Los Carpinteros’ Frío estudio del desastre (Frozen Study of a Disaster) plays on the uncanny relationship to space as a disembodied picture of reality by presenting what appears to be a three-dimensional reconstruction of a photographic image depicting an exploding wall. Shattered fragments from a cinder block wall hang suspended in the air, while a gaping hole in the wall indicates the point of impact of the blast responsible for this domestic ground zero. The gallery visitor walks through this eerie scene as if somehow entering and navigating a two-dimensional representation, a forensic image from which we may reconstruct the specific nature of the forces unleashed by the detonation. As an image of architectural vulnerability, Frío estudio del desastre inevitably calls to mind pictures of the destruction of the World Trade Center—an event experienced around the world through its depictions in the media. Yet for all its evocation of a mortal disaster, Los Carpinteros’ installation conspicuously lacks any trace of human inhabitants; the space it presents is devoid of history, a frozen temporal vacuum. It hints at the way that our photographically conditioned perception limits our experience not only of space but also of time. “With the advent of modernity time has vanished from social space,” historian Henri Lefebvre observed in his pioneering book “The Production of Space” (1974). “Economic space subordinates time to itself; political space expels it as threatening and dangerous (to power). . . . Our time, then, this most essential part of lived experience, . . . is no longer visible to us. . . . It is concealed in space, hidden under a pile of debris to be disposed of as soon as possible” (Ralph Rugoff).

Marco Antonio Castillo Valdés *1971, Camagüey, Cuba;
Dagoberto Rodriguez Sanchez *1969, Caibarien, Cuba
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source: loscarpinterosnet

Los Carpinteros, colectivo artístico fundado en 1991 en La Habana.

Marco Antonio Castillo Valdés, nació el 18 de septiembre de 1971 en Camagüey, Cuba. Graduado en 1994 del Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA), La Habana, Cuba.

Dagoberto Rodríguez Sánchez, nació el 6 de marzo de 1969 en Caibarién, Las Villas, Cuba. Graduado en 1994 del Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA), La Habana, Cuba.

Alexandre Jesús Arrechea Zambrano, nació el 12 de septiembre de 1970 en Trinidad, Las Villas, Cuba. Graduado en 1994 del Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA), La Habana, Cuba. Formó parte del colectivo hasta el año 2003.

Viven y trabajan entre La Habana y Madrid.
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source: thisiscolossal

Los Carpinteros is a Havana-based artist collective currently comprised of Marco Castillo and Dagoberto Rodríguez (a third member, Alexandre Arrechea, left in 2003) who produce a wide range of works including sculpture, installation, and film. My favorite of their works are these lovely abstract paintings of Legos and other structural or architectural pieces. Via Sean Kelly Gallery:

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.