Carlos Garaicoa
El juego de las decapitacicones / The Decapitation Game, 1993
Width: object 60cm round and ( 3 ) photographs 60 x 50cm each
Medium: Sculpture - concrete and vintage silver gelatin prints
Acerca de esos incansables atlantes que sostienen dia por dia nuestro presente / On those tireless cariatides that daily sustain our present, 1994-1995
Width: 60cm
Height: 50cm
Medium: Photography - unique, vintage photograph
Acerca de esos incansables atlantes que sostienen dia por dia nuestro presente / On those tireless cariatides that daily sustain our present, 1994-1995
Width: 215cm
Height: 150cm
Medium: Drawing - ink on paper
REFERENCES:
Carlos Garaicoa : la ruina, la utopía (Bogotá D.C. : Banco de la República, Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, 2000), illus. p. 58.
Primer sembrado de hongos alucinógenos en La Habana /
First Cultivated Field of Psychedelic Mushrooms in Havana, 1997
First Cultivated Field of Psychedelic Mushrooms in Havana, 1997
Width: 100cm
Height: 80cm (with unique color photograph not shown 60 x 50cm)
Medium: Drawing - ink and graphite on paper with color photograph
REFERENCES:
Carlos Garaicoa : la ruina, la utopía (Bogotá D.C. : Banco de la República, Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, 2000), illus. p. 59. Holly Block, ed., Art Cuba: The New Generation (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2001), illus. p. 28.
Rivoli o el lugar donde mana la sangre / Rivoli, or the Place Where Blood Flows, 2002
Width: 50cm
Height: 50cm
Medium: Sculpture - LightBox with color photograph
EXHIBITIONS:
2001 Carlos Garaicoa: La Ruina, la utopía (obras 1990-2000) (The Ruin, The Utopia--Works 1990-2000). Solo exhibition. Alejandro Otero Museum, Caracas, Venezuela; Luis Angel Arango Library, Bogotá, Colombia; Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, NY.2007 (May 29-Sep 9) Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
2007 (Oct 7-Dec 31) Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL
2009 (Oct 3-Jan 4) Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, Jordan Schnitzer Museum, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
2010 (Oct 15-Jan 10) Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
2010 (Feb-Apr 4) Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL
2010 (Jun 27-Sep 19) Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
REFERENCES:
Eugenio Valdés, “El Espejo del Deseo” (The Mirror of Desire), Carlos Garaicoa : la ruina, la utopía (Bogotá D.C. : Banco de la República, Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, 2000), illus. p. 23. Abelardo Mena Chicuri, Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection (University of Florida Press, 2007).
Acerca de la caja del reloj y del tiempo que se ha ido /
On the clock case and time past, 1995
On the clock case and time past, 1995
Width: 20 inches
Height: 24 inches
Medium: Photography - cibachrome print
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Acerca de la caja del reloj y del tiempo que se ha ido /
On the clock case and time past, 1995
On the clock case and time past, 1995
Width: 20 inches
Height: 24 inches
Medium: Photography - cibachrome print
#2/5
Acerca de la caja del reloj y del tiempo que se ha ido /
On the clock case and time past, 1995
On the clock case and time past, 1995
Width: 20 inches
Height: 24 inches
Medium: Photography - cibachrome print
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Acerca de la caja del reloj y del tiempo que se ha ido /
On the clock case and time past, 1995
On the clock case and time past, 1995
Width: 20 inches
Height: 24 inches
Medium: Photography - cibachrome print
#2/5
Acerca de la caja del reloj y del tiempo que se ha ido /
On the clock case and time past, 1995
On the clock case and time past, 1995
Width: 20 inches
Height: 24 inches
Medium: Photography - cibachrome print
#2/5
About Carlos Garaicoa
b. 1967, resides in Cuba
Curator, with Esterio Segura, of the important 1993 exhibition Las metáforas del templo (Metaphors of the Temple), Carlos Garaicoa has created an exceptional body of work on the themes of architecture, ruins, and utopia. From his initial subject, the city of Havana . . .
