Carlos Garaicoa
dal 27/5/2005 al 2/7/2005
Segnalato da
27/5/2005
Carlos Garaicoa
Galeria Luisa Strina, Sao Paulo
On the first floor of the gallery the artist exhibits a new installation entitled 'El Mapa del Viajero', the work is an enormous non-existent map represented only by plastic push pins in the shape of buildings. On the second floor the artist exhibits photographs and a new series of 'pop-up' books containing drawings and photographs from the past 10 years as well as new projects.
Galeria Luisa Strina is pleased to present the first solo exhibition of Cuban artist
Carlos Garaicoa in Brazil from the 28th May.
On the first floor of the gallery the artist exhibits a new installation entitled
"El Mapa del Viajero" (The Traveler’s Map). This works is inspired by writings of
various travelers, explores, conquistadores and scientists who throughout History
have bought us closer to unknown places. The work is an enormous "non-existent" map
represented only by plastic "push pins" in the shape of buildings. These colourful
pins attach pieces of paper containing texts fragments describing real or imaginary
places that appear new to our eyes.
On the second floor the artist exhibits photographs and a new series of "pop-up"
books (books in which 3D structures jump upon opening) containing drawings and
photographs from the past 10 years as well as new projects. These books are also on
the show at the MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art) in Los Angeles, USA. The
exhibition also contains a series of videos from 1996 to date on the third floor.
Carlos Garaicoa (Havana 1967) has participated in many important exhibitions and
Biennials throughout the world, including the 26th and the 24th Bienal de São
Paulo, in 2004 and 1998 respectively, Documenta 11, in Kassel, in 2002 and will
participate in the Venice Biennial this year. With no formal art training he began
his career in his home town in the 1990’s. He has worked with diverse materials and
his work is known for its use of architectural, real as much as imaginary.
Architecture is no more than an excuse to deal with themes of a bigger order.
Amongst others, the frustration at the decadent utopia of the 20th century, a
willingness to rethink the urban space as a necessary space for human beings, the
consideration of the imagination as an alternative to reality and to the definitive
presence of the fiction throughout the course of History. Garaicoa’s work is clearly
centred within a Cuban context but at the same time fits into a global situation.
"One of the propositions of my work is to extract the city’s secret and to expose
it. Moreover setting up this secret as a critical discourse about contemporary
society has become necessary to give shape to my work and which makes it exist,
between fiction and the void of our fragmented memory", explains the artist.
Carlos Garaicoa’s work is the big metaphor for collapse.
For further information, please contact Cristina Candeloro: t. 55 11 3088-2471
Upcoming exhibition: Fernanda Gomes, from August 02nd to September 02nd 2005.
Opening: May 28th 2005, Saturday, from 11am to 5 pm
Galeria Luisa Strina
Rua Oscar Freire, 502 Sao Paulo
Opening hours: From May 30th to July 22nd 2005
Monday- Friday from 10am to 7pm
Saturday from 10am to 5pm