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PUBLISHER
Walther König, Köln

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9.5 x 11 in. / 380 pgs / 200 color.

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Pub Date
Out of print

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D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: FALL 2010 p. 101   

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9783865608086 TRADE
List Price: $79.00 CAD $95.00

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Los Carpinteros Handwork: Constructing the World

Text by Dagoberto Rodríguez Sánchez, Marco Antonio Castillo Valdés.

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..
Los Carpinteros Handwork: Constructing the World

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