This body of work designates a series of cardboards, which the artist carved into. Cutting through piles and into the various layers of paper, Castillo creates geometric drawings made of bas-reliefs using the physicality of the support to give the composition depth, layering and symmetry.
The pieces evoke architectural elements, and capture a historic endeavor for modernist, utopian and high-minded aesthetics through its razor-sharp lines and perfectly geometric designs.
Museum board
200 x 140 x 17 cm
Museum board
100 x 70 x 19 cm
Museum board
100 x 70 x 19 cm
Museum board
100 x 70 x 19 cm
cardboard
photo: Ladislav Zajac
cardboard, 77 x 77 x 20.5 cm
photo: Ladislav Zajac
cardboard, 103.5 x 77 x 18.5 cm
photo: Ladislav Zajac
cardboard, 103.5 x 77 x 28.5 cm
photo: Ladislav Zajac
cardboard, 103 x 77 x 17.5 cm
Marco A. Castillo is co-founder of the collective Los Carpinteros. The group was created in 1992 in Havana, Cuba, to develop practices that combine architectural forms, design and art, independent of individual authorship. While the collective gained wide international recognition as a group, Castillo has also been recognized for his individual work. In his career as an individual artist, he has experimented with the intersections between fine art, applied art, and decorative art to problematize aesthetic expectations and preconceptions associated with the Latin American history of modernism, socialist design, and Cuban traditions. In doing so, he also focuses on Cuba's current political developments as well as the now often forgotten achievements of modern Cuban architects and designers. He has been awarded different prizes, latest being the Medalla por la Cultura Nacional (Cuba, 2002).