| Dates: | born 1967
| | Biography: |
Born 1967, Havana, Cuba. Lives and
works in Havana, Cuba
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Capablanca's, 2006, Real Passion,
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada
Because Every City has the Right to be
Called Utopia, 2005, Oriel Mostyn,
Llandudno, Wales
Carlos Garaicoa, 2005, Yorkshire
Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK
Carta a los censores. XXXIX International
Contemporary Art Prize, 2005, Quai
Antoine I -Princess Grace Theatre,
Monte Carlo, Monaco
La misura de quasi ruffe le cose, 2004,
Palazzo delle Papesse Siena, Italy
Lecciones de Histona, Casa de
América, 2003, Madrid, Spain
De la serie Nuevas Arquitecturas, 2003,
Centra Wilfredo Lam, Havana, Cuba
Now Let's Play to Disappear, 2002,
Gallena Continua, San Gimignano, Italy
Ni Christ, ni Marx, ni Bakounine, 2002,
Maison Européenne de la Photographie,
Paris, France
The Last 10 Days of the Market, Aarhus
Festival, 2001, Galeria Image, Aarhus,
Denmark
Because Every City has the Right to be
Called Utopia. 2001, Lombard-Freid
Gallery, New York. USA
Carlos Garaicoa: La ruina: La Utopía
(obras 1990-2000) 2000, Biblioteca Luis
Angel Arango, Banco de La República,
Bogotá, Colombia; Bronx Museum of the
Arts, New York, USA; Museo Alejandro
Otero. Caracas Venezuela
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Echigo-Tsumari Triennale, 2006, Japan
Postcapital. 2006, Palau de la Virreina,
Barcelona, Spain
3rd Tirana Biennale, 2005, Tirana,
Albania
Farsite, Insite Tijuana, 2005, Tijuana-
San Diego, Mexico-USA
51st Venice Biennale, 2005, Arsenale,
Venice, Italy
Dialectics of Hope, 2005, Moscow
Biennale, Moscow, Russia
7th Sharjah International Biennial,
Sharjah, 2005, United Arab Emirates
Inverting the Map, 2005, Tate Liverpool,
Liverpool, UK
Transmigraciones, 2004, Tnenal
Poli/Gráfica de San Juan, Puerto Rico
Future Cities, 2004, Art Gallery of
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Image Smugglers, 2004, XXVI Bienal de
São Paulo, Parque Ibirapuera, São Paulo, Brazil
Time Capsule, 2003, Art in General, New
York, USA
Salon des Refuses, 2003, Fondazione
Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, Italy
Modern Islands. 2003, Public Project,
Dresden, Germany
Copyright, 2001, Centro Cultural de
España, Havana, Cuba
Documenta 11, 2001, Platform 5,
Kassel, Germany
De ponta cabeça, 2001, Bienal de
Fortaleza, Brazil
Sonsbeek 9, 2001, Arnhem, Holland
VII Bienal de La Habana, 2001, Centra
Wilfredo Lam, Havana, Cuba
Mega Wave, 2001, First Yokohama
Triennale, Japan
| | | Source: | International 06, Liverpool Biennial exhibition catalogue | | | Date of source: | 2006 |
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| | Description: | Garaicoa's art has been a long dialogue
with the city. It aims to reposition
unnoticed urban sites and objects into
spaces of artistic discourse, and, in
more general terms, to build formal
abstractions of cities' patterns and their
paradoxically physical souls. He has
said: 'I see the city as a huge text, of
which I am a fragment and,
simultaneously, a medium for this text's
interpretation and deconstruction.
Objects and spaces are claiming
something I am also urged to tell, which
confirms a sort of mystic and ludic
sense in every image.'
His work began as a poetics of Havana.
This city is a unique place: a museum
that keeps the historical evidence of a
magnificent past, a living ruin, and a
symbol of the downfall of Utopia. The
artist's sensibility has been shaped by
his initial interventions in Havana's
amazing urban landscape. But his work
has evolved from a 'sociological' line to
the more formal and poetic approach of
his current installations. Some of his
videos, photographs, drawings and
installations take a critical stance,
reflecting on history and social
processes. In other cases the work aims
to sophisticate the urban subject into a
refined aesthetic rendering.
Gerardo Mosquera
| | Description Source: | International 06, Liverpool Biennial exhibition catalogue | | Description Source Date: | 2006 | | Gender: | male | | Type: | person |
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