Carlos Garaicoa

We are pleased to announce that Carlos Garaicoa will join mor charpentier as a represented artist.

Carlos Garaicoa, born in Havana (Cuba) in 1967, studied thermodynamics and later painting at the Instituto Superior de Arte de La Habana (1989 – 1994). He currently lives and works between Havana and Madrid.

Garaicoa has developed a dialogue between art and urban space through which he investigates the social structure of our cities in terms of their architecture. He employs a multidisciplinary approach to address cultural and political issues, particularly Cuban, through the study of architecture, urbanism and history.
By playing with sculptures, drawings, videos and photographs centred around irony and hopelessness, Garaicoa has found in his installations, for which he often uses a wide variety of materials, a way to criticize modernist Utopian architecture and the collapse of the 20th century ideologies, by going deeper into the concept of the city as a symbolic space.
Together with his wife, he founded the artist-in-residence project Artista x Artista in Havana.

We are very happy to welcome Carlos and we look forward to working together.
@garaicoa@carlosgaraicoa_studio