Carlos Martiel

Adiós Utopia: Dreams and Deceptions in Cuban Art Since 1950

Jan 012017

March 5, 2017 — May 21, 2017

Curated by Gerardo Mosquera, Rene Francisco, Elsa Vega, and Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO).

Adiós Utopia: Dreams and Deceptions in Cuban Art Since 1950 looks at how Cuba’s revolutionary aspirations for social utopia—and subsequent disillusionment—shaped 65 years of Cuban art. The exhibition brings together more than 100 of the most important works of painting, graphic design, photography, video, installation, and performance created by more than 50 Cuban artists and designers.

Anchored by key moments of 20th- and 21st-century Cuban history, Adiós Utopia is the most comprehensive and significant presentation of modern and contemporary Cuban art shown in the United States since 1944, when the Museum of Modern Art in New York presented Modern Cuban Painters.

Although many artists have emigrated from Cuba to live and work abroad, Adiós Utopia focuses on the untold narrative of those artists who remained in Cuba or whose careers took off after Fidel Castro’s 1959 revolution. Through a selection of pivotal artworks—created in each of six decades since 1950—the exhibition explores Cuba’s artistic production through the lens of utopia, both its construction and its deconstruction. Adiós Utopia introduces U.S. audiences to key events in Cuban history and explores how this history affected individual artists, shaped the character of art produced on the island, and conditioned the reception of Cuban art both in Cuba and abroad.

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The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston | 1001 Bissonnet St, Houston, TX 77005

Dec 292016

Carlos Martiel | Cauce (Riverbed)
January 11-15, 2017

Curated by Marisa Caichiolo

In his work “Cauce/Riverbed,” the artist exposes the significant challenges faced by immigrants in California and the larger United States. Martiel digs deep into the nature of undocumented immigration and shows how it impacts the lives of some eleven million individuals and their families in the world’s most powerful nation.

His performance is a window to the human tragedy that grossly affects immigrants with low-education levels and limited English language skills, who come to the United States risking their lives as they venture into the dangerous dessert in an attempt to cross the Mexico-US border. As Martiel shows, despite the highly-publicized “American Dream,” for these poor and uneducated immigrants, making it alive into US territory does not necessarily guarantee access to better opportunities or to a higher quality of life.

The artist’s performance also establishes parallelisms between the immigration struggle faced by millions of undocumented individuals and the continued drought that has triggered severe economic and environmental damage in California. Drought may be due solely to weather conditions or due to a combination of political and economic factors as well as population size and farming.

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Los Angeles Convention Center | 1201 South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, CA 90015

Dec 222016

ARTE FIERA
January 27-30, 2017.

Rossmut will take part in Arte Fiera 2017 with a solo show of the artist Carlos Martiel.

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Arte Fiera | BolognaFiere, Viale della Fiera, 20 40127 Bologna

Nov 172016

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Carlos Martiel – Vivere nel tuo corpo
06 Dicembre 2016 – 17 Aprile 2017

Dal 6 dicembre 2016 la Galleria Rossmut di Roma ospiterà – in esclusiva assoluta per l’Italia – la mostra dell’artista CARLOS MARTIEL (L’Havana, 1989), curata da Diego Sileo.

La prima mostra personale in una galleria italiana del giovane artista cubano sarà accompagnata durante l’opening da una sua performance inedita e ideata appositamente per l’evento romano.

Le performance di MARTIEL, spesso provocatorie e crude, esplorano la natura dell’esistenza, le barriere sociali e le tradizioni culturali. Una serie di azioni rivolte al pubblico, in cui l’artista cerca di toccare la profondità dell’essere umano attraverso dispositivi di sofferenza e di privazione e spesso anche rischiosi, come in EXPULSIÓNfacendosi cucire sulla pelle le 12 stelle della bandiera europea, o trafitto da una freccia come nella performance TROFEO, realizzata al PAC di Milano in occasione della mostra Cuba. Tatuare la storia, o ancora cosparso di insetticida per scarafaggi nell’ultima azione PLAGA, tenutasi allo ZAC di Palermo lo scorso 7 ottobre.

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Galleria Rossmut | Via dei Reti, 29B, 00185, Roma

BRIDGES/PUENTES crea canales para artistas venezolanos y extranjeros.

Nov 042016

Noviembre 9-15, 2016

A partir de la próxima semana comienza BRIDGES/PUENTES, el más reciente proyecto de P3 Plataforma Para Performance con el apoyo de Residencia Artística El Avispero, Arts Connection, el Museo de Arte Contemporáneo del Zulia (MACZUL), Universidad Centroccidental Lisando Alvarado (UCLA), la Hacienda La Trinidad, Fundación República de Guarimure y el Instituto Municipal de Cultura y Arte del Municipio Iribarren (IMCA), que propone nutrir la escena nacional de arte contemporáneo a través de un ciclo de intercambios con artistas e investigadores extranjeros a fin de promover la formación nacional en el arte de la performance y el arte contemporáneo desde la práctica y la teoría, estableciendo enlaces con creadores y artistas venezolanos que residen en el exterior.

En esta primera edición, se darán cita como invitados el artista cubano Carlos Martiel, ganador del premio CIFO en su edición 2014, y la venezolana residente en Argentina Aidana Rico, pionera en la construcción de archivo sobre la performance y creadora de la Fundación Performancelogía, dedicada a la documentación y difusión del arte de performance. Junto a ellos darán muestras de su arte la talentosa venezolana Margie Valdez y el joven artista aragüeño Raúl Rodríguez, quien en tiempos recientes entra con fuerza en la escena artística nacional.

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Toda Percepción es una Interpretación: YOU ARE PART OF IT.

Oct 242016

Noviembre 30, 2016 – Marzo 12, 2017

Curaduria por: Eugenio Valdés Figueroa & Katrin Steffen

La exposición Toda percepción es una interpretación: You are part of it, es una mirada en retrospectiva desde problemáticas contemporáneas del arte, de la cultura, de la política y la economía. Pretende reflexionar sobre las sucesivas reconfiguraciones del mapa del arte en las últimas décadas, sobre los dislocamientos y reubicaciones de sus escenas de acción, de Paris a New York, de Venecia a Sao Paulo, de Basel a Miami. Habla acerca de zonas que han conseguido alternar impulsos centrípetos o centrífugos, donde el arte ha relocalizado sus puntos de encuentro y sus puntos de observación. Prestamos atención también a los efectos de reformulaciones del mapa financiero o político, con una repercusión para los modos de hacer y de proceder en el arte.

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CIFO Art Space | 1018 N Miami Ave, Miami, FL 33136

Clifford Owens and Carlos Martiel in Conversation

Oct 042016

Thursday, October 27, 2016
6 to 8pm

Following Martiel’s performance Maze, Clifford Owens and Carlos Martiel will discuss their performance-based artistic practices, connecting racial histories in the United States and Cuba, respectively. The conversation will center on artworks featured in the exhibition: Owens’ Anthology (2011), with scores provided by Maren Hassinger and William Pope.L, and Martiel’s Ruins and Expulsion (both 2015).

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The 8th Floor | 17 W 17th St, New York, NY 10011

Carlos Martiel: MAZE

Oct 042016

Wednesday, October 19, 2016
6 to 8pm

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Carlos Martiel’s new performance Maze reflects on the current system of mass incarceration and racial discrimination in the United States, where a disproportionate number of the imprisoned are African Americans and Latino immigrants. Focusing on forced labor within the prison system, and the threat of loss of privileges and solitary confinement for prisoners who refuse to work, Martiel takes a position of stillness and draws parallels between current prison policies and conditions in the US and historical systems of oppression in European history.

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The 8th Floor | 17 W 17th St, New York, NY 10011

CUBA. Tatuare la storia

Sep 232016

Palermo 7 ottobre – 18 dicembre 2016 ǀ ZAC Zia Arti Contemporane
a cura di Diego Sileo e Giacomo Zaza

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CUBA. Tatuare la storia, aprirà al pubblico venerdì 7 ottobre negli spazi espositivi di ZAC Zisa Arti Contemporanee di Palermo, promossa dall’Assessorato alla Cultura del Comune di Palermo in coproduzione con il PAC Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea di Milano. Questa è la seconda tappa della collaborazione tra le due istituzioni dopo la personale della performer guatemalteca Regina José Galindo nel 2015.

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L’esposizione è curata da Diego Sileo e Giacomo Zaza e organizzata da ruber.contemporanea – coordinamento progettuale di Antonio Leone e Giulia Ingarao, allestimento a cura di Giuseppe Pulvirenti – in collaborazione con l’accademia di belle arti di Palermo/dipartimento di comunicazione e didattica dell’arte.

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La mostra, che traccia una linea guida sull’arte cubana, dentro e fuori dell’isola, vede la partecipazione di 31 artisti cubani tra i più noti e influenti nel panorama artistico internazionale, attivi dalla fine degli anni Settanta in poi, più della metà dei quali oggi vive e lavora a L’Avana: Juan Carlos Alom, Tania Bruguera, María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Javier Castro, Celia-Yunior, Susana Pilar Delahante Matienzo, Ángel Delgado, Humberto Díaz, Carlos Garaicoa, Luis Gárciga, Luis Gómez Armenteros, Antonio Gómez Margolles, Félix González-Torres, Ricardo Miguel Hernández, Kcho, Tony Labat, Ernesto Leal, Reynier Leyva Novo, Los Carpinteros, Meira Marrero & José Toirac, Carlos Martiel, Ana Mendieta, Reinier Nande, Glexis Novoa, Marta María Pérez Bravo, Eduardo Ponjuán, Wilfredo Prieto, Grethell Rasúa, René Francisco Rodriguez, Lázaro Saavedra, Tonel.

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ZAC – Zisa Zona Arti Contemporanee | Via Paolo Gili, 4, 90138 Palermo, Italy

Sep 222016

SWAB ART FAIR
Dal 29 settembre al 2 ottobre, Barcellona.

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La Galleria Rossmut è lieta di invitarla a Swab Art Fair 2016 dove parteciperà con un Solo Show dell’artista Carlos Martiel.

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Prats de Mollo 7 bajos, 08021 Barcelona. Spain

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