Artwork overview
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Medium
mixed media on mahogany
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 250 × 141 × 55 cm (98 7/16 × 55 1/2 × 21 5/8 in.)
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Accession Number
2024.151.2
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