{"id":218,"date":"2008-04-02T21:58:53","date_gmt":"2008-04-02T21:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=218"},"modified":"2008-10-25T22:04:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-25T22:04:00","slug":"los-carpinteros-%e2%80%98la-montana-rusa%e2%80%99-at-sean-kelly-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/02\/los-carpinteros-%e2%80%98la-montana-rusa%e2%80%99-at-sean-kelly-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Carpinteros, \u2018La Montana Rusa,\u2019 at Sean Kelly Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"

For ‘Time Out New York’ Magazine, April 2008
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Los Carpinteros, La Montana Rusa, 2008, Courtesy of Sean Kelly Gallery<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nAfter seventeen years of exhibiting, including a memorable installation at PS1 in 2001, it\u2019s surprising this is only the Cuban collaborative\u2019s second New York gallery show.\u00a0 New Yorkers have missed out if these five new sculptures plus a suite of watercolors, which blend subtle politics, surreal domestic furniture and architectural models, are anything to go by.
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\nLos Carpinteros\u2019 typical sculpture is minimal, large and makes obvious references that put it at risk of seeming simplistic were it not for underlying Cuban references that add a rewarding complexity.\u00a0 The show\u2019s centerpiece, \u2018La Montana Rusa,\u2019 (2008) a long, undulating bed resembling a roller coaster, brings to mind the hair-raising and uncontrollable aspects of dreams.\u00a0 But read its \u2018socialist\u2019 pink color as political metaphor and it becomes a timely reminder of Cuba\u2019s present uncertain leadership.
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\nThe show\u2019s other sculptures are portals into mysterious, dream-like worlds:\u00a0 A replica swimming pool with increasingly deeper chambers arranged like the layout of a house recalls the still, eerie mood of James Casebere\u2019s photos of flooded architectural models.\u00a0\u00a0 Three large bookshelves resemble Crate and Barrel fare but have wavy distortions that make them appear as if they were underwater or a hallucination.
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\nEleven watercolor drawings include buildings in the form of meat cleavers and a basketball court whose backboard arches like the trajectory of a ball.\u00a0 More bizarrely imaginative for not being practical enough to realize as objects, they continue Los Carpinteros\u2019 contrast between menace and amusement, adding another edge to their provocative body of work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For ‘Time Out New York’ Magazine, April 2008 After seventeen years of exhibiting, including a memorable installation at PS1 in 2001, it\u2019s surprising this is only the Cuban collaborative\u2019s second New York gallery show.\u00a0 New Yorkers have missed out if these five new sculptures plus a suite of watercolors, which blend subtle politics, surreal domestic … <\/p>\n

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