Carlos Garaicoa at Matadero, Madrid
Seven carpets rest on the floor of the oldest cooling camera in Matadero Madrid. They represent some of the old commercial firms of Havana with evocative names such as The Fight, Thought, unrivaled, or Queen. Texts that can be habitually seen in the floors of this portal city and Carlos Garaicoa ( Havana, 1967) intervenes, altering their original meaning to others like The fight is everyone’s or Queen destroys or redeems.
The End of Silence is part of a series of works that Garaicoa began in 2006 with the intervention of labeled photographs and Havana floors, and that he now ends with the creation of this carpeted place. This dialog with the urban space and architecture is constant in the work of Carlos Garaicoa, whose pieces create analogies about the physical structures and certain models of social organization. Through the deconstruction of these experiential contexts in objects, drawings, photographs or videos, Garaicoa proposes a new way to read the city, the way it is governed and possible social change.
Garaicoa, who lives between Madrid and Havana, majored in thermodynamic engineering at the Instituto Técnico Hermanos Gómez in Havana, and painting at the Instituto Superior de Arte in the same city. With multiple international compromises, within his last individual expositions Overlapping, in the Irish Museum of Modern Art; Bienes Mostrencos, in the Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín; La enmienda que hay en mí, in Grachip Studio in Tampa, and El punto, la línea y el plano, in the East Central Gallery in London should be distinguished. Moreover, he has participated in big artistic events such as the Biennial in Venice, Documenta de Kassel, the Havana´s Biennial and the Sao Paulo´s Biennial.
Carlos Garaicoa. Fin de Silencio. From September 25 to November 7
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