Los Carpinteros

Los Carpinteros (Cuba, 1992 – 2018). The Cuban collective formed by Marco Antonio Castillo (Camagüey, Cuba, 1971) and Dagoberto Rodríguez Sánchez (Caibarién, Cuba, 1969), began their professional career in 1992, together with Alexandre Arrechea, who in 2003 began his solo career. In the beginning they used recycled materials -especially wood- to make their works, and they adopted the name of their collective in 1994 to embrace the union tradition of artisans and skilled workers. Fascinated by the intersection between art and everyday life, Los Carpinteros melded architecture, design, drawing and sculpture in ways that were extravagant and unpredictable. Their carefully crafted constructions promote a humorous visual language of contradiction and transformation, such as utilitarian versus useless and form versus function.