CARLOS GARAICOA ARCHITECTURAL NEW EXHIBIT AT IRISH MUSUEM OF MODERN ART
One of Cuba’s leading contemporary artists, Carlos Garaicoa, brings together new and recent works comprising sculpture, installation, drawing, video and photography, which explore the themes of architecture and urbanism at the Irish Museum of Modern Art today. Cuban life—social, political, and cultural—inspires Garaicoa’s work. After the Cuban revolution in 1959, many architectural projects and buildings were left unfinished or abandoned, in Havana and in other Cuban cities.
Garaicoa created a series of pop-up books depicting the decrepit turn-of-the-century buildings in Havana’s Plaza Vieja district and other cities. Garaicoa also addresses these collapsed buildings by pairing black-and-white photographs with drawings made of thread rendering the reality of the absence of these structures. Garaicoa often illustrates his vision in large installations using various materials such as crystal, wax candles and rice-paper lamps.
You have probably heard of the urban graffiti artists Roa, Bansky, D*face and Blu, but have you heard of the Sixeart?
Sixeart (real name Sergio Hidalgo) is a multidimensional graffti artist and sculptor started his artistic endeavor in the world of graffiti in the late 1980′s by tagged the streets of Barcelona, developing his own personal graffiti style. In the mid 1990′s he started experimenting with sculpture and painting, until in 1998 he felt he needed his own studio, where he was able to to establish himself as a plastic artist.
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