Quemando Árboles (Burning Trees)

1993

Los Carpinteros

Artist, Cuban, founded 1991

Los Carpinteros

Attributed to

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    found mahogany mantle and oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Avalon Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 250 × 141 × 55 cm (98 7/16 × 55 1/2 × 21 5/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2024.151.2

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Consigned to Galería Ángel Romero, Madrid, in 1999).[1] Diana and Moses Berezdivin, San Juan, Puerto Rico, before 2005; Espacio 1414, Santurce, Puerto Rico; purchased 2024 by NGA.
[1] The gallery exhibited but did not sell the work at Art Miami that year, returning it to the consigner afterwards, according to Ángel Romero in an e-mail of 25 April 2025 (NGA curatorial files).

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1994

  • Quinta Bienal de la Habana. Arte, Sociedad, Reflexion, May 1994: 281, no. 1, repro.

1999

  • Galeria Ángel Romero, Art Miami, Miami, 1999. no catalogue.

Bibliography

1999

  • Lowinger, Rosa. "The Object as Protagonist: an Interview with Los Carpinteros", Sculpture 18, no.10 (1999):24-31.

2002

  • Dalton, Trinie, Alexandre Arrechea, and Eva Golinger. "Los Carpinteros. Interview", Bomb, 78 (2001/2002): 62.

2013

  • Rosenblum, Beth Tamar. "From “Special Period” Aesthetics to Global Relevance in Cuban Art: Tania Bruguera, Carlos Garaicoa, Los Carpinteros." PhD. diss., University of California, Los Angeles, 2013, 162, 320, Fig. 3.32.

Inscriptions

on the bottom part (across on top): QUEMANDO ARBOLES

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