Name Carlos Garaicoa has had global artecho over the past two decades. This Cuban artist, who was born in 1967, grew up in Old Havana when there were more houses and less tourism spaces and he curiously studied thermodynamics before art.
This artist, who questions the development of cities and whose work has been showcased in museums and galleries all over the world – he already exhibited his work in Bogotain 2000,and Medellin in 2010), is going to present a new show specially designed for NC-arte, in Bogotá, May 3 – July 12. With this display he refers to unfinished architecture and its meaning. Photography, drawing, engraving, video and small sculptures (scale models) are part of this exhibition.
These are some fragments of what Carlos Garaicoa wrote for ARTERIA on the show:
“For this display in NC-arte, I have focused my attention on buildings I found in Bogota, Donetsk (industrial city in Eastern Ukraine) and Havana, which represent pieces of aborted architecture, failed in terms of its utilitarian and aesthetic objectives. An unfinished architecture, proclaimedruin before it even existed.”
“I’m looking forward to creating, starting with these urban ghosts, a fiction source that calls the reality around these buildings into question.”
“Instead of playing with the beauty of the existing ruin and the glorification of a utopia, I take the opportunity I’m given, a starting point to “reconstruct” or “construct” my own imaginary.
In this case, I try to establish parallelisms between architecture and the human body, ruin and sick body. The naked parts of a building, its beams, columns and the internal structure of a body with its vital organs, pneuma, sense of direction... We find humanity and beauty in its decadence and fragility.”
Source: ARTERIA newspaper
