CARLOS GARAICOA: ARCHITECTURE AND PLACE AT THE CAAM
The Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM), located in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, is hosting the exhibition Toda utopía pasa por la barriga, a tour through the work of Carlos Garaicoa (Havana, Cuba, 1967) curated by Lillebit Fabraga that best connects with architecture, the natural order and the location of the human being in the system. Within that line of argument in which the artist has been working, the recent pandemic we are suffering and the consequent confinement maintain a position of strength that led the Cuban to rethink part of his technique and to recover, through introspection, basic elements of his work that have been surfacing again.
Here, drawing and the use of organic elements from nature play a relevant role, which have helped him to move from the aforementioned architecture and artificial volumes to vegetation and its natural development. The urban element, understood as space, encompasses for Garaicoa the conceptual denunciation of harmful practices in our environment, the same one that combines both worlds and from which he wonders how much we have been hurting our own ecosystem.
From there, the Spanish-Cuban artist also opens the question to the public and to his commitment to improve in those aspects with correct actions aimed at exploiting that natural part that, as the animals we are, we still keep, despite finding it increasingly hidden, and that can help us to better understand the environment, our constructions and the organic that underlies them.
Toda utopía pasa por la barriga can be seen until September 1 at CAAM, Los Balcones, 11-13, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.
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