Los Carpinteros: Cuba Va!

Los Carpinteros (Marco Castillo and Dagoberto Rodríguez) is an internationally acclaimed Cuban artist collective best known for merging architecture, sculpture, design, and drawing. From the outset in the early 1990s,

Los Carpinteros’ work has reflected on social transformations in post-revolutionary Cuba, offering critical commentary of dominant ideologies and power structures with humor and artistry. Los Carpinteros’ Intersections project features two videos from 2018—Comodato and Retráctil—and a group of LED sculptural portraits of elderly Cuben citizens rendered as heroic revolutionaries. 

The films and portraits produce a social landscape of Cuba’s modern history that has been at once utopian and dystopian, promising and devastating. Cuba Va! is Los Carpinteros’ first museum project as a collective since their separation in summer 2018, continuing the Phillips’s tradition of “firsts” by staging a new beginning of the long celebrated Cuban collective. --The Phillips Collection.

Hardcover: 69 pages English/Spanish

Published: October 2019