Carlos Garaicoa

“ ..Raised in a Communist regime and culture, infused with the ideas and ideologies of the role of artist in the society, Garaicoa’s first reaction was to use a camera to capture, re-imagine and symbolically... ”

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Parasol unit

“ ..Interested in urban planning and a city's architectural social fabric, Garaicoa often illustrates his vision in large installations using various materials such as crystal, wax candles and rice-paper lamps... ”

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Irish Museum of Modern Art

“ ..Garaicoa also addresses these collapsed buildings by pairing black-and-white photographs with drawings made of thread rendering the reality of the absence of these structures... ”

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Irish Museum of Modern Art

“ ..Taking his home city as a source of inspiration and as a laboratory, Garaicoa develops a model in which Havana is a metaphor not only of human nature, but also of the failure of 20th-century ideologies... ”

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Galleria Continua, San Gimignano

“ ..For Garaicoa, artistic practice is both a tool and a language for engaging with the public and the private city... ”

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Galleria Continua, San Gimignano