Los Carpinteros - Artist Info

About Los Carpinteros

  • Biography

    Los Carpinteros (The Carpenters) are three Cuban artists: Daboberto Rodriguez Sanchez, b. 1969; Marco Antonio Castillo Valdes, born 1971; and Alexandre Arrechea, born 1970. See their individual artist records on AskART.com

    This is a Havana-based collective, which has created some of the most important work to emerge from Cuba in the past decade. Formed in 1991, the trio until the departure of Alexandre Arrechea in June 2003, adopted their name in 1994, deciding to renounce the notion of individual authorship and refer back to an older guild tradition of artisans and skilled laborers. Interested in the intersection between art and society, the group merges architecture, design, and sculpture in une...

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