Los Carpinteros: Handwork - Constructing the World

Los Carpinteros and Gudrun Ankele, Daniela Zyman eds, Paulo Herkenhoff et al.

ISBN 10: 3865608086 / ISBN 13: 9783865608086

Published by Walther Konig, 2010

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Hardcover without dustjacket as issued, 378 pages, in English; as new condition, clean and crisp; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

Seller Inventory # LoLoWa300

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Los Carpinteros: Handwork - Constructing the World
• Publisher: Walther Konig
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3865608086
• ISBN 13: 9783865608086
• Binding: Hardcover
• Seller catalogs:
  • Architecture

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Synopsis

The Havana-based duo of Marco Antonio Castillo Valdés (born 1971) and Dagoberto Rodríguez Sánchez (born 1969) are two of the most exciting artists in Cuba today. Formed in 1991, and working since 1994 under the moniker of Los Carpinteros, which they adopted as a nod to traditional craftsmen's guilds, the team renounces individual authorship to sabotage the disciplines of design and architecture from within. Their elegant and mordantly humorous sculptures, which attain high standards of craftsmanship assert a deadpan non-functionality: a crazily undulating wooden bookshelf, a filing cabinet with an impossibly deep drawer, or stereo speaker cones transformed into billboard hoardings. By putting functional and serious disciplines to nonfunctional and humorous ends, Los Carpinteros offer a preposterized world in which objects seem to have swapped bodies with other objects. For the first time, that world is presented in depth, in this excellent monograph..