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Shantytown Los Sitios, Havana
(Hacinamiento Los Sitios, La Habana)
Author: Juan Roberto Diago
Year: 2019
Medium: 40 handmade houses, wood and recovered materials
Size: measurements vary
Inventory No: 07464
Price: $
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Provenance:
Acquired directly from the artist.
Exhibited in Juan Roberto Diago:
20 Years of Creation, Cernuda Arte,
Coral Gables, FL, Oct. 2019 – Jan. 2020,
and illustrated digitally on cernudaarte.com,
exhibitions.
This work is accompanied by a Photo-
Certificate of Authenticity, signed
by the artist.
In 2019, Juan Roberto Diago created several
installations in the conceptual likeness of
shantytowns in Cuba, each one an homage to an
actual impoverished neighborhood on the island -
Belén, El Fanguito, Los Positos, La Timba,
Los Sitios, and others.
Like much of the physical architecture of the
neighborhoods they depict, these works are built
from found and discarded materials, an authentic
and meta-textual technique the artist has employed
throughout his career.
These unique installations were constructed
specifically for the exhibition, Juan Roberto
Diago: 20 Years of Creation, Cernuda Arte, Coral
Gables, FL, November 2019 – January 2020. Each
work is accompanied by a Photo-Certificate of
Authenticity, signed by the artist.
The Shantytown installations continue a long-
running series of works exploring the politics and
aesthetics of life in the hovels, applying a
critical lens to poverty and inequity in the Third
World. Other examples from the Shantytown series
have been exhibited in important art institutions
around the world, including the John F. Kennedy
Cultural Center in Washington D.C, the Museo de
Bellas Artes in Havana, and the Brownstone
Foundation in Paris.
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