Carlos Betancourt
dal 2/12/2005 al 9/1/2006
Segnalato da
2/12/2005
Carlos Betancourt
Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami
The hand of the eye: Questions of Travels. The artist dwells into the nature of traveling and the need to have a sense of place as a fundamental human drive satisfied in part by personal history, culture and the environment. He contemplates traveling and its relationship to exploration as another fundamental human need driven in part by the possibility to discover and "choose" something other than what we have inherited or known as "home".
The hand of the eye: Questions of Travels
Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts Gallery will present "THE HAND OF THE EYE: Questions of Travels", a solo exhibit of recent artworks by Carlos Betancourt
"untitled /1000 with souvernirs -THE INSTALLATION" will be part of this show. A boxed edition of a framed replicated image of "untitled /1000" and its souvenirs will be on display. An installation from the same series will be exhibited at the Bass Museum Art Basel opening event.
In "THE HAND OF THE EYE: Questions of Travels", the artist dwells into the nature of traveling and the need to have a sense of place as a fundamental human drive satisfied in part by personal history, culture and the environment. The artist furthermore contemplates traveling and its relationship to exploration as another fundamental
human need driven in part by the possibility to discover and "choose" something other than what we have inherited or known as "home".
"untitled /1000 with souvenirs" will also be part of this exhibit. This particular artwork explores the artist attraction to souvenir shops, where identical images are often printed on multiple products and sold to satisfy a need to be identified with a place, or "object". The almost infinite editions found at souvenir shops, (and the many incarnations on objects of /UNTITLED /1000/), alludes as well to the current art market trend of producing monumental editions of specific artworks. A boxed edition of a framed replicated image of "untitled /1000" and its souvenirs will be on display. An installation from the same series will be exhibited simulateneously at the Bass Museum Art Basel opening event.
About the artist:
Carlos Betancourt was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico. In 1981 he moved to Miami, Florida. Mr. Betancourt's artwork is part of public collections such as the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, the Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno in the Canary Islands, the Museo de Arte Moderno in Santo Domingo, San Antonio Museum of Art in Texas, the Lowe Art Museum, the Bass Museum in Miami and the Museum of Latin American Art in California.
Mr. Betancourt's artwork has been included in multiple solo and group exhibits as well as art fairs such as Art Basel and Arco. He is the recipient of numerous awards and grants, such as the Florida Department of State Millennium Cultural Recognition Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Grant, and the Miami Beach Arts Council Grant. Recently, he has
been awarded commissions to create monumental artworks for the Miami-Dade Art in Public Places Trust and for the Puerto Rico Art in Public Places Program. The artist currently lives in Miami, Florida.
Opening: December 3
Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts
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