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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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