Yoan Capote
1..2…3…Probando / 1…2…3…Testing, 2000
Width: 29 1/2 inches
Height: 21 1/2 inches
Medium: Painting - ink, acrylic and pencil on paper
EXHIBITIONS:
2000 Seventh Havana Biennial, La Cabaña Castle, Havana, Cuba.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:
Catalogue, 7th Havana Biennial, 2000, p. 166. UNESCO Award for the Promotion of the Arts (with Los Carpinteros, Jean Pierre Raynaud), 7th Havana Biennial, Revista ArteCubano, 2-3/2003, cover. Kim Levin, "Cuba Libre, Art and Contradiction at The Havana Bienal," Village Voice 45:5 (26 Dec 2000), p. 130. Christian Chambert, "The 7th Havana Bienal, The Nordic Art Review. Walter Robinson, "Havana, Art Capital" (28 Nov 2000) www.artnet.com/magazine/reviews/robinson/robinson11-22-00.asp. Fabrice Bousteau, “Cuba la Belle Américaine,” Beaux Arts 200 (Jan 2001), p. 77. Robin Cimbalest, “Where Rube Goldberg Meets Kafka,” Art News (Feb 2001), p. 151. Grady Turner, "Cuba II, Sweet Dreams," Art in America (Oct 2001), pp. 72-75. Abelardo Mena Chicuri, Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection (University of Florida Press, 2007). Center for Cuban Studies, 40th Anniversary Calendar, October 2012, illus.
Study for Protocol, 2000
Medium: Drawing
Protocolo / Protocol, 2000-2001
Width: 18 inches
Height: 44 inches ( 19 inches deep )
Medium: Sculpture - Cast iron, red velvet
EXHIBITIONS:
2001 El diseño de lo híbrido (The Design of the Hybrid), Galería Habana, Havana, Cuba.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:
Amalia Bomin, “Ivan and Yoan Capote at Galeria Habana,” Art Nexus 44 (Jun 2002), p. 109. Noticias de Arte Cubano (Cuban Art News) 2:7 (2001), cover illus. Darys Vázquez, “Yoan Capote: La constante mutación de los objetos (Yoan Capote: The Constant Mutation of Objects),” (May-Jun 2005), unpublished article. Abelardo Mena Chicuri, Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection (University of Florida Press, 2007). Art Districts magazine 2:4 (Feb-Mar 2011), p. 13, illus.
Como los peces / Like the Fishes, 2004
Width: 13 5/8 inches
Height: 9 5/8 inches
Medium: Sculpture - silverware, case installation
EXHIBITIONS:
2004 Art Basel, Miami, FL.
Como los peces (detail), 2004
Medium: Sculpture
Matrimonio / Matrimony, 2004
Width: 30 inches
Height: 20 inches ( 15 inches deep)
Medium: Sculpture - Leather
EXHIBITIONS:
2004 (Nov 15-Dec 30) Anímica, George Adams Gallery, 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:
“Anímica, New Sculpture and Drawing,” ArtForum (Dec 2004), Adv. p. 46. ArtNews (Nov 2004), Adv. p. 34, George Adams Gallery. Carol Prisant, “Lounging at Longhouse: Carol Prisant Visits a Benchmark Exhibition,” The World of Interiors (Sep 2004), p. 106. Consejo Nacional de las Artes Plásticas, “Arte cubano—10 años de arte cubano,” Revista de artes visuales 2/2005, p. 47. Marisol Martell, “Yoan Capote at George Adams Gallery,” ArtNexus 3:56 (2005), pp. 154-155. Eleanor Heartney, “Yoan Capote at George Adams Gallery,” Art in America (Jun-Jul 2005). Abelardo Mena Chicuri, Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection (University of Florida Press, 2007).
Isla (in memoriam) / Island ( in memoriam) (diptych), 2007
Width: 258.5cm each
Height: 136.5cm ( 5cm deep ) , each
Medium: Painting - Oil, nails, fish hooks and the artists blood on plywood
EXHIBITIONS:
2008 (23 Jan-22 Mar)States of Exchange: Artists from Cuba, INIVA (Institute of International Visual Arts), London, England.2008 (October) UNESCO, Paris, France.
REFERENCES:
Gerardo Mosquera and Cylena Simonds, eds., States of Exchange / Estados de intercambio (INIVA, 2008). Andreas Winkler and Sebastian A.C. Berger, eds., Cuba: Arte contemporáneo/Contemporary Art (New York: Overlook Press, 2012), pp. 76-77.
Paranoia, 2007
Width: 135cm
Height: 95cm (19cm deep)
Medium: Sculpture - Ironwork
REFERENCES:
Andreas Winkler and Sebastian A.C. Berger, eds., Cuba: Arte contemporáneo/Contemporary Art (New York: Overlook Press, 2012), p. 74.
Mente abierta / Open Mind, 2008
Width: 25 inches
Height: 20 inches
Medium: Drawing - mixed media on paper
About Yoan Capote
b. 1977, resides in Cuba
From his first exhibition, Yoan Capote has shown a peculiar sensitivity toward everyday objects. This is not an “archeological” interest in the improvised technologies of a Cuba in the midst of an epic shortage of . . .
Joining the collection, a striking, unsettling canvas from Roberto Fabelo’s recent show at Galería Habana