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CONCRETE CUBA │ David Zwirner, London → 3 October 2015

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Sandú Darié: Caja Mecánica (Mechanic Box), ca. 1950s. Oil on wood, 15 1/8 x 21 5/8 x 2 inches (38.2 x 55 x 5 cm)

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ARTISTS

Pedro Álvarez • Wifredo Arcay • Mario Carreño • Salvador Corratgé • Sandú Darié • Luis Martínez Pedro • Alberto Menocal • José Mijares • Pedro de Oraá • José Ángel Rosabal • Loló Soldevilla • Rafael Soriano

“Dspt its brīf xistns, Los Diez hd a pṛfând impact, nt onli on ɖ histri v Kbn art, bt on ɖ tṛjctri v twentiiʈ-senćri abstraẋn inṭnaśnli”

Wifredo Arcay: Sin Título (Untitled), 1957.Oil on canvas on masonite,21 1/8 x 28 1/8 x 1/8 inches (53.5 x 71.2 x 0.3 cm)
Pedro Álvarez: Sin Título (Untitled), ca. 1952.Oil on canvas,33 x 23 1/8 x 7/8 inches (83.8 x 58.5 x 2 cm)
Mario Carreño: Crepúsculo (Twilight), 1955.Tempera, pencil and ink on casein on board,15 x 11 1/2 inches (38 x 29 cm)
Mario Carreño: Sin Título, Composición Abstracta (Untitled, Abstract Composition), 1953. Oil on canvas, 23 7/8 x 31 3/8 x 1 1/8 inches (60.7 x 79.7 x 2.8 cm)
Salvador Corratgé: Espacios y Formas No.1 (Spaces and Forms No. 1), 1962.Oil on canvas,38 x 33 1/8 x 1 inches (96.5 x 84 x 2.5 cm)
Sandú Darié: Estructura (Structure), 1958.Casein on wood,27 5/8 x 29 1/8 x 1 5/8 inches (70 x 74 x 4 cm)
Sandú Darié: Columna Espacial (Spatial Column), 1955. Oil on wood, 44 1/2 x 13 x 7/8 inches (113 x 33 x 2 cm)
Sandú Darié: Estructura Transformable (Transformable Structure), ca. 1950s.Oil on wood, assemblage.Dimensions variable
Sandú Darié: Sin Título, Estructura Transformable (Untitled, Transformable Structure), ca. 1950s. Oil on hinged wood elements. Dimensions variable
Sandú Darié: Sin Título, ca. 1950. Estructura Transformable (Untitled, Transformable Structure), ca. 1950. Dimensions variable
Alberto Menocal: Proyecto No. 2 (Project No. 2), 1958. Formica collage on masonite,15 3/4 x 10 1/4 inches (40 x 26 cm)
José Mijares: Sin Título (Untitled), ca. 1950s.Oil on wood,27 x 19 7/8 inches (68.5 x 50.5 cm)
Pedro de Oraá: Sin Título (Untitled), 1960. Emulsion on cardboard, 23 5/8 x 15 3/4 inches (60 x 40 cm)
Rafael Soriano: Composición (Composition), 1954.Oil on canvas,22 1/4 x 32 3/8 x 7/8 inches (56.5 x 82 x 2 cm)
Luis Martínez Pedro: Sin Título, de la serie ‘Aguas Territoriales’ (Untitled, from the series ‘Territorial Waters’), 1964.Oil on canvas,39 3/8 x 30 1/2 x 7/8 inches (100 x 77.5 x 2 cm)
Luis Martínez Pedro: Aguas Territoriales (Territorial Waters), 1963. Oil on canvas, 30 7/8 x 29 x 7/8 inches (78.5 x 73.5 x 2 cm)
Luis Martínez Pedro: Sin Título, de la serie ‘Aguas Territoriales’ (Untitled, from the series ‘Territorial Waters’), 1963.Oil on canvas,23 1/8 x 53 3/4 x 1 inches (58.5 x 136.3 x 2.5 cm)
Luis Martínez Pedro: Sin Título (Untitled), 1959.Oil on canvas,44 3/4 x 33 1/4 x 7/8 inches (113.5 x 84.5 x 2 cm)
Luis Martínez Pedro: Sin Título (Untitled), 1951. Oil on canvas, 27 x 19 3/4 x 2 inches (68.5 x 50 x 5 cm)
Jose Angel Rosabal: Sin Título (Untitled), 1960.Oil on masonite,39 3/4 x 28 1/8 x 1 inches (101 x 71.5 x 2.5 cm)
Loló Soldevilla: Sin Título (Untitled), 1958.Cardboard collage on paper on wood,19 6/8 x 50 x 1/4 inches (50 x 127 x 0.5 cm)
Loló Soldevilla: Sin Título (Untitled), 1955. Oil on masonite,32 6/8 x 22 7/8 x 2 3/4 inches (83 x 58 x 7 cm)
Loló Soldevilla: Stabile (Stable), 1954.Bronze and metal,18 3/4 x 11 1/4 x 6 5/8 inches (47.5 x 28.5 x 16.7 cm)
Loló Soldevilla: Sin Título (Untitled), 1953.Oil on canvas,16 x 20 x 7/8 inches (40.6 x 50.8 x 2 cm)

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LOS CARPINTEROS │ Parasol Unit, London → 24 May 2015

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'Tomates' (detail), 2013. Real tomatoes and watercolour splash, porcelain, dimensions variable. Photo: Jason Wyche. Courtesy of Sean Kelly Gallery, New York and Ivorypress, Madrid. © Los Carpinteros
‘Tomates’ (detail), 2013. Real tomatoes and watercolour splash, porcelain, dimensions variable. Photo: Jason Wyche. Courtesy of Sean Kelly Gallery, New York and Ivorypress, Madrid. © Los Carpinteros

(Posted 7 May 2015. The text is in an older version of Ñspel.)

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“Paṛsol ynit fândešn fr cntmprri āt z dlîtd t priznt an xibišn v wrcs bî Kbn āt c̣lctv, Los Carpinteros (Marco Castiyo n Dagoberto Rodrīgez). Ɖs xibišn, ɖ dyo’z frst mêjr šo in a public Lundn instityšn, includz xtnsv insṭlešnz, sculpčrz, wōtrculr drōñz n a filmscrīnñ, ẇč em t xplor n inteṛget ɖ funẋnalti v ācitecčr, dzîn n ɖ evrde objct.

Ɖ deftli craftd – n ofn hymṛs – insṭlešnz n sculpčrz md bî Los Carpinteros me apir ẇimzicl at frst, yt evri pìs hz an eḷmnt v ṗlitcl comntri, mostli rletd t ɖer prsnl xpirı̣ns n contxt. Ɖs dcoṭmi pṛvîdz a vast rzws wɖ ẇč ɖe cn b bʈ plêfl n critcl. Ofn dscrîbd az inṭrogtv āt, ɖer wrc xaminz ɖ rlešnšp btwn āt n ssayti, fwm n funẋn, practcalti n frivḷsṇs.

Fr ɖ Los Carpinteros xibišn at Paṛsol ynit, ɖ grândflor gaḷriz r dedicetd t lj-scêl insṭlešnz n sculpčrz, sč az Tomates, 2013. Ɖs xtnsv wōlinsṭlešn cnsists v mr ɖn 200 riyl tmātoz splatrd agnst ɖ gaḷrīwōl, on ẇč bytifli craftd pwṣlen tmātoz r instwld, ivocñ wɖ a pýňnt senṣtivti ɖ inṭple v a ṗlitcl uprîzñ. Olso xibitd z 17m, an insṭlešn cmprîzd v a 17-mītr-loñ cloɖñrêl on ẇč hañ mr ɖn tu hundṛd blac sūts puñčrd ʈrt bî a gêpñ star. Altoparlante Solimar (Solimar Lâdspīcr), 2008, z an inwms ebnīwŭd strucčr emyletñ Hvana’z Solimar apātmntbildñ, dzînd bî Manuel Copado in 1944 n wel-nôn fr its moḍnist dzîn, impozñ hît n its lj-scêl sîṇsýdl balc̣niz. Ɖ Los Carpinteros strucčr z a lj acūstc box, in ẇč č apātmnt hz bcm a lâdspīcr t rīpṛdys ɖ výsz v ɖ famliz livñ insd it. Ɖ târñ LEGO® brics cnstruẋn, Robotica, 2013, z bêst on ɖ Stêt Sạntific Sentr fr Ṛbotcs n Tecnicl Sîḅnetcs in St. Pītrzbrg, refṛnsñ fwmr Sôvı̣t cmemṛtv monymnts.

Los Carpinteros’ wōtrculr drōñz, svṛl xamplz v ẇč r includd in ɖ xibišn, ofn funẋn lîc ācitcčṛl blūprints fr cnstruẋnz ɖt r bilt t scêl n adaptd fr č ptklr xibišnspês. Ɖz wōtrculr drōñz ofr a welʈ v psbltiz n inspirešn fr ptenšl fabricešn v wrcs, olɖo sm onli rmen az fanṭsi, yt ɖe r an intrinsic pāt v ɖer practis, actñ az a cmynic̣tv tūl or on-gwñ dscušn btwn ɖ ātists.

In ɖ upr-flor gaḷriz z a siriz v wōtrculr drōñz alñ wɖ sm sml-scêl prôtotîp modlz, ẇč r bêst on priznstrucčrz n fabricetd yzñ Cwtn stīl. Sm v ɖ modlz hv mtirı̣lîzd intu lj-scêl rīdñrūmz fr uɖr cmišnd projcts. Scrīnñ ʈrt ɖ xibišn wl b ɖ film Conga Irreversible, 2012, a pfwmns orijinli cnsivd n pṛdyst bî Los Carpinteros ātc̣lctv on ɖ ocežn v ɖ 2012 Hvana Bîeňl.

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Ɖs xibišn, kretd bî Zība Āḍlan, Fândr/Drctr v Paṛsol ynit, z acumṗnid bî a rletd prôgram v edycešnl ivnts at ɖ fândešn.

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Ātist Bîogṛfi

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Kbn ātc̣lctv, Los Carpinteros (Ɖ Cāpntrz), cnsist v Māco Antonio Castiyo Valdez (b. 1971) n Dagoberto Rodrīgez Sančez (b. 1969). Ɖe stātd t wrc az a grūp ẇl studiyñ at ɖ Instituto Superior de Arte in Hvana in ɖ ŕli 1990z. Ɖer ŕvra okpîz an intrīgñ n ambiğs eria btwn conspčlizm, activizm n fwmlizm. Ɖer ʈri-dmnšnl wrcs r cómplimentd bî wōtrculrz n vidioz. Ɖ ātists liv n wrc btwn Mdrid, Spên, n Hvana, Kba.

Wrcs bî Los Carpinteros r in svṛl public n prîvt c̣lẋnz […]”

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‘Cuarteto Rebelde’, 2012. Wood and chrome metal, dimensions variable. Private collection. Courtesy of Ivorypress, Madrid © Los Carpinteros.
‘Tomates’ (installation view), 2013. Real tomatoes and watercolour splash, porcelain, dimensions variable. Photo: Jason Wyche. Courtesy of Sean Kelly Gallery, New York and Ivorypress, Madrid. © Los Carpinteros
17m, 2015
‘Candela’ (detail), 2013. Painted MDF, LED lights, dimensions variable. Photo by Paco Gómez. Courtesy of Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, and Matadero de Madrid © Los Carpinteros
Robotica, 2013 (wood, metal, Lego) by Los Carpinteros. Photograph: Jason Wyche; courtesy of Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
Cabilla Cabilla Triptico, 2014, watercolor on paper. Photo: Jason Wyche
Croissant I, 2013, watercolor on paper

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