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ART BASEL 2009 - Miami Beach
December 3 - 6 @ Miami Beach Convention Center

LOS CARPINTEROS - Parlante Solimar
MDF 9 mm, Conpensado flex 4mm

Altoparlante Solimar, 2008

The Havana-based collective Los Carpinteros (The Carpenters) has created some of the most important work to emerge from Cuba in the past decade. Formed in 1991, the trio (consisting of Marco Antonio Castillo Valdés, Dagoberto Rodríguez Sánchez, and, until his departure in June 2003, Alexandre Arrechea) adopted their name in 1994, deciding to renounce the notion of individual authorship and refer back to an older guild tradition of artisans and skilled laborers. 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.

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