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Los Carpinteros
Portaaviones, 2005

Installation view: Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary. Collection as Aleph, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, 2008
Photo: Niki Lackner | Landesmuseum Joanneum
Installation view: Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary. Collection as Aleph, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, 2008
Installation view: "Los Carpinteros – Silence Your Eyes" Kunstverein Hannover, Germany, 2012
Photo: Raimund Zakowski
Installation view: "Los Carpinteros – Silence Your Eyes" Kunstverein Hannover, Germany, 2012
Photo: Raimund Zakowski
Installation view: Estuaire 2007, Le Grand Café, Contemporary Art Center, Saint-Nazaire, France, 2007
Photo: Marc Domage
Los Carpinteros
Collection

Fiberglass, polyester resin, wood painted with automotive paint, stainless steel, silicon, PVC tubes, optical fiber, small blue glass tiles, iron sawhorses, filter, water pump, electric cables, water.
171 x 78 x 219 cm


Los Carpinteros invite the viewer to see the nature of things differently: rather than trying to avoid contradiction, they seek it out by showing realities that appeal to a different logic and presenting objects that suggest an alternative order. The artists set visual traps while investigating discord, ambiguity, and incompatibility, revealing absurdities and proposing multiple explanations for the "real." The title Portaaviones refers to an aircraft carrier, but the work is constructed in the form of a swimming pool. Los Carpinteros has created an uncanny "psychosculpture" that weaves together a war vessel and a domestic luxury item.


Marco Antonio Castillo Valdés: *1971 in Camagüey, Cuba | Living and working in La Habana, Cuba and Madrid, Spain
Dagoberto Rodríguez Sánchez: *1969 in Caibarien, Cuba | Living and working in La Habana, Cuba and Madrid, Spain
Artist's Website
http://loscarpinteros.net
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