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1 LOS CARPINTEROS DRAMA TURQUESA at Ivorypress Art + Books Los Carpinteros duo: Biography Marco Antonio Castillo Valdés (Camagüey, Cuba, 1971) and Dagoberto Rodríguez Sanchez (Caibarién, Cuba, 1969) founded the Los Carpinteros collective in the early 90 s together with Alexandre Arrechea, who collaborated with them during their early years. They graduated from the Superior Art Institute of Havana (ISA), and are primarily interested in exploring the traditional notions of architecture, design, space and object-function, among others, with wit and a scathing sense of humour. The majority of their work is comprised of sculptures, installations and watercolours. During their early years as a collective, the artists worked against a cultural backdrop marked by the Cuban Revolution and the recession. Those circumstances led them to work with recycled materials, especially wood, which they transformed using handicraft techniques. Therein lies origin of their artistic name, Los Carpinteros, which is somewhat subversive in that it refers directly to the world of the craftsmen and not to that of the artist. They work to break down not only the barrier that exists between art and object, but also between art and artefact. In 2003, Arrechea left the collective and Los Carpinteros continued as a duo. Today, Castillo and Rodríguez are no longer subject to the material restrictions and limitations that hindered them when they first started out; accordingly, their work has flourished from the use of versatile techniques and disciplines. Their international renown is evidenced by the inclusion of their artwork in public and private collections, including the Galician Centre of Contemporary Art (CGAC) in Santiago de Compostela (Spain), the Extremaduran and Latin American Museum of Contemporary Art (MEIAC) in Badajoz (Spain), the Tate Gallery in London (UK), the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris (France), the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City (US), and Daros-Latinamerica in Zürich (Switzerland). They are currently represented by Sean Kelly Gallery in New York, Galeria Fortes Vilaça in São Paulo and Ivorypress Art + Books in Madrid. Individual exhibitions 2008 La Montaña Rusa, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, New York, USA, 21 March-26 April. Sub-Urbano, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil, 26 July-23 August Los Carpinteros, Grand café services art contemporain, during Estuaire Nantes-Saint-Nazaire, Saint-Nazaire, France, 1 June-1 September Los Carpinteros: Inventing the World/inventar el mundo, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA, January-2 April. Los Carpinteros: Inventing the World/inventar el mundo, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, 6 May-30 July.

2 Sel et Poivre, Galerie In SITU, Paris, France, 25 February-22 April. Faro Tumbado, Galería Habana, during Dinámicas de la Cultura Urbana, 9th Biennial of Havana, Havana, Cuba, 27 March-27 April. Los Carpinteros, during Contemporaneamente, Milan, Italy, 29 March-1 April Los Carpinteros: Inventing the World/inventar el mundo, University of South Florida Contemporary Art Center, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA, 8 April-15 July. En el Jardín, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2 June-2 July Downtown, Anthony Grant Inc, New York, New York, USA, 12 March-April Novos Desenhos, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil, 14 August-13 September. Fluido, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba, 31 October-January Ciudad Transportable, Contemporary Art Museum of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 7 April-2 June. La intervención de Los Carpinteros en B Opening, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle, UK, Saturday 13 July Ciudad Transportable, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, New York, USA, 20 May-3 September. Ciudad Transportable, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, California, USA, 27 September-13 January Los Carpinteros, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California, USA, 11 October-17 November Tania Bruguera/Los Carpinteros, Vera Van Laer Galerie, Antwerp, Belgium, 26 March-1 May Los Carpinteros, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany, 17 May-26 June. Los Carpinteros, Iturralde Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA, 23 October-25 November Construimos el puente para que cruce la gente, construimos paredes para que el sol no llegue, Galería Ángel Romero, Madrid, Spain, 14 March. Group exhibitions (selection) 2009 The Kaleidoscopic Eye: Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, 4 April-5 July Cuba. Art et Histoire. De 1868 a nos jours, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal/Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes/Fototeca de Cuba, Pavillion Jean-Noël Desmarais, Montreal, Canada, 31 January-8 June.

3 Surrounded By Water: Contemporary Cuban Art, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 8 February-5 April. Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary. Collection as Aleph, Kunsthaus Graz/Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria, 6 March-26 October. Psycho Buildings: Artists Take On Architecture, Hayward Gallery, London, UK, 27 May-25 August. The Way Things Are Works from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection, Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasy, Torun, Poland, 14 June-31 October New Dimensions, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA, 20 March-29 April. Estuaire Nantes-Saint-Nazaire, Escall atlantic, Saint-Nazaire, France, 1 June-1 September. New Economy, Artists Space, New York, New York, USA, 8 June-28 July. The Eclectic Eye: Pop and Illusion, Frederick R Weisman Art Foundation, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA, 4 August-28 October. The Hours. Visual Arts of Contemporary Latin America, Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Sydney, Australia, 21 June-2 September. Volksgarten. Politics of Belonging, Kunsthaus Graz, Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria, 21 September-14 January Homing Devices, Contemporary Art Museum, Institute for Research in Art, South Florida University, Florida, USA, 26 October-15 December Arte de Cuba, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, São Paulo, Brazil, 28 January-10 April; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 15 May-23 July; Brasilia, 14 August-15 October. Nuit Blanche, Paris, France, 6-9 October. Havana Factory, Á Chocolatería, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 20 October-10 December. Manipulations on Economies of Deceit, Laznia Contemporary Arts Center, Gdańsk, Poland, 8 December-February Contradicciones y Convivencias: Arte de América Latina , Museo de Arte del Banco de la República, Bogota, Colombia, 14 February-25 April. Monuments, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, California, April. Biennale de Venecia, IILA Pavilion, Palazzo Franchetti, Venice, Italy, 12 June-6 November. Manipulations on Economies of Deceit, Prague Biennale of Contemporary Art 2005, Prague, Czech Republic, 13 June-16 September. Desedos Fluidos Positions Between Reality and Fantasy in Cuban and Brazilian Art, Thyssen- Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria, 22 September-December. The Hours Visual Arts of Contemporary Latin America, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland, 4 October-8 January Monuments, White Columns, New York, New York, USA, 9 December-7 February MoMA at El Museo. Latin American and Caribbean Art from the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Modern Art/El Museo del Barrio, New York, New York, USA, 5 March-25 July. Ahora es el Futuro/The future is now. Contemporary Cuban Artists Part 1, The Durst Organization with Paul Sharpe Contemporary Art PSCA, New York, New York, USA, 27 April-4 June. Islands, Rhode Island School of Design, Rhode Island, USA, August.

4 Art and Architecture , Palazzo Ducale, Padua, Italy, August. Recent Acquisitions: Contemporary Sculpture, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York USA, 19 November-27 January th Bienal de Artes Visuales de Mercosur, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 4 October-7 December Rest in Space, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway, 18 October-24 November. Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China, 22 November-20 January Playground & Toys. An International Project for Art for the World, Hendrik Christian Andersen Museum, Rome/Geneva/New York (travelling show), 18 September-28 November. 7th Bienal de La Habana, Fortaleza de San Carlos de la Cabaña, Havana, Cuba, 17 November-5 January Awards 2002 Medalla por la Cultura Nacional, Cuban Ministry for Culture Fomento de las Artes Award, UNESCO. 7th Bienal de La Habana, Havana, Cuba Premio de Encuesta Popular, El Mundo magazine. ARCO Trade Fair. Madrid, Spain. Collections Arizona State University, ASU Art Museum, Arizona, USA. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, USA. Madeira Corporate Services Collection, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain. Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France. Centro Cultural Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico. Fundación Cisneros, Miami, Florida, USA. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Coral Capital Art Collection, Panama City, Panama. Daros-Latinamerica, Zürich, Switzerland. Farber Collection, Miami, Florida, USA. Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, USA. Frederick R. Weissman Foundation, Beverly Hills, California, USA. Fundación ARCO, Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.

5 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, USA. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, USA. Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany. LVMH / Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, Paris, France. Microsoft Art Collection, Seattle, Washington, USA. Musée des beaux-arts de Montreal, Montreal, Canada. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California, USA. Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, USA. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba. Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, Badajoz, Spain. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, USA. Tate Modern, London, UK. Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas, USA. University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, California, USA. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, USA. Publications (selection) 2008 Cuba: Art and History from 1868 to Today, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada. Psycho Buildings: Artists take on Architecture, Hayward Publishing, Southbank Centre, London, UK Cuban Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection Samuel P. Harn, Museum of Art at the University of Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA. Homing Devices Latin American and Caribbean Sculpture, University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum/Institute for Research in Art, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida Houlihan, Mary. The Cuban Mistique: Visual Artists Reaching Out to the World, Chicago Sun Times, 26 February, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Dexter, Emma; Hervieux, Pascale; Térel, Anne-Marie. Vitamine D: Nouvelles perspectives en dessin, Phaidon, Paris, France Sedano Álvarez, Verónica. Transmutaciones de lo ordinario a lo extraordinario o cómo salir de la piel del conejo. A propósito de Manual de Trabajo/Esculturas Recientes, Revolución y Cultura, No. 1, January/February/March, pp , Havana, Cuba. Matamoros, Corina. Me fui sabiendo que en Tampa, La Jiribilla, Revista Digital de Cultura Cubana, Havana, Cuba, June Los Carpinteros, Institute for Research in Art, published in conjunction with the exhibition Fluid, 8th Havana Biennial, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba.

6 2002 Miles, Christopher. Los Carpinteros. Your home is my home: the global familiarity, ArtNexus, No. 45, July, Bogotá, Colombia Muchnic, Suzanne. Los Carpinteros, ARTnews, January, New York, USA. Anselmi, Inés. Entrevista con Los Carpinteros, en La Dirección de la Mirada. Arte Actual de Cuba, Stadthaus, Zürich/Musée des beaux-arts de La Chaux-de Fonds. Lowinger, Rosa. The Object as Protagonist. An Interview with Los Carpinteros, Sculpture, Vol. 18, No. 10, December, pp , New Cork, USA Los Carpinteros. Provisorische Utopien, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, pp. 5-19, Aachen, Germany. For more information and interview requests: Cristina Giménez Ivorypress Art+Books C/ Comandante Zorita Madrid, Spain T: Cristina Ruiz T: T: Aleyda Dominguez T: