Sofa Caliente/ Hot Sofa, 2001 - powder coated steel
Estuche/ Jewelry Case, 1999 - wood, 87 x 51 x 51
Estanteria III, 2008 - plywood, maple veneer(Replica of the ubiquitous IKEA bookcase, bowed out on one side as if using the Photoshop 'punch' filter)
Los Carpinteros is a collective group of young Cuban artists who live and work in Havana, Cuba. The artists –Marco Castillo, Dagoberto Rodriguez, and until 2003 Alexandre Arrechea – first began to work together as students in the early 1990s at Havana’s prestigious Superior Institute of Art (ISA) and have since emerged as important presences on the expanding global terrain of art. Los Carpinteros challenge and juggle many basic assumptions about the nature of culture and recent thinking about globalization.
“Our work studies quotidian objects and their functions. Many of our pieces derive from the alteration or the exaggeration of the use of a piece of furniture or another element that we habitually use. We have discovered that, hidden in the functionality of things that man fabricates lie many fissures that betray his thoughts and conduct.” – Lilian Tone quoting the artists in her essay, “Placeless Place”, Los Carpinteros Catalog (USF, 2003)
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