Title & Author:

Los Carpinteros : handwork : constructing the world / edited by Gudrun Ankele and Daniela Zyman ; foreword by Francesca von Habsburg ; contributions by Paulo Herkenhoff [and others].

Publication:

Köln : Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König ; New York, NY : D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers [distributor], ©2010.

Description:

377 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm

Notes:
At head of title: Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary.
Includes bibliographical references and index of works.
Havana, full circle, double memory / Francesca von Habsburg -- Handwork, constructing the world / Gudrun Ankele and Daniela Zyman -- Dismantling the world / Paulo Herkenhoff -- El barrio, building the city -- Politically infected objects -- Water -- Back to the future: Los Carpinteros' watercolors / Helen Molesworth -- Melting -- The contradictory nature of things; or, tropical political / conversation with Gudrun Ankele and Daniela Zyman -- Morphing -- Cold studies -- Where noise and silence meet / Eugenio Valdés Figueroa -- Language -- The language of objects / Rochelle Steiner -- Depressions -- Psycho spaces.

Summary:

This monograph presents a comprehensive survey of Los Carpinteros' work since 2003, their most critically acclaimed period.
"The Havana-based collective Los Carpinteros (The Carpenters), consisting of Marco Castillo and Dagoberto Rodriguez, has created some of the most nuanced work to emerge from Cuba in recent decades. Their enigmatic and mordantly humorous sculptures, watercolor drawings, and installations take inspiration from the physical world, particularily that of architecture and design objects, tools, and construction materials. Expressing latent political implications and ideological twists, the carefully crafted works exploit a visual syntax that dwells on the contradictions between object and functionality, art and the everyday, practicality and uselessness, autonomy and social meaning. With contributions by Paulo Herkenhoff, Helen Molesworth, Rochelle Steiner, and Eugenio Valdés Figueroa."--Page 4 of cover.

Resources:
Summary

ISBN:

9783865608086
3865608086
9781935202677 (Artbook)
1935202677 (Artbook)

Subject:

Los Carpinteros Künstlervereinigung
Carpinteros Criticism and interpretation Catalogs
Carpinteros (Group of artists) Catalogs.
Carpinteros (Group of artists) Criticism and interpretation Catalogs.
Carpinteros (Group of artists) Interviews.
Artists Cuba Havana 21st century.
Art, Cuban 21st century.
Artistes Cuba La Havane 21e siècle.
Art, Cuban.
Artists.
Carpinteros (Group of artists)
Installation
Objektkunst
Aquarell
Artists Cuba Havana
Architecture in art
Cuba Havana.
Castillo Valdéz, Marco Antonio.
Rodriguez Sánchez, Dagoberto.
Arrechea, Alexandre.

Form/genre:

Essays.
Catalogues raisonnés.
catalogs (documents)
interviews.
Catalogs.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Interviews.
Catalogues.

Added entries:

Ankele, Gudrun, editor.
Zyman, Daniela, editor.
Habsburg, Francesca von.
Herkenhoff, Paulo.
Ankele, Gudrun
Zyman, Daniela
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (Foundation)
Carpinteros

Handwork : constructing the world

Holdings:

Location: Library main 271600
Call No.: BIB 204805
Status: Available