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may 292017
 

Entrevista por Fernando Pichardo para Creators

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A tan solo ocho años de haberse graduado de la Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes de San Alejandro en La Habana, el artista cubano Carlos Martiel se ha ganado un sitio en la historia del arte de su país al posicionarse como seguidor de una narrativa performática inaugurada por Ana Mendieta y consolidada por Tania Bruguera.

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En 2013, Martiel fue galardonado en Venecia con el Premio Arte Laguna por su obra Prodigal Son, obteniendo el reconocimiento de la crítica internacional. Este año regresó a esa ciudad para participar en el Pabellón de Cuba con la exposición Tiempos de la intuición, en el marco de la 57 edición de la Bienal que se inauguró durante el mes de mayo.

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Martiel emplea su cuerpo en acciones agresivas, que se acercan al sacrificio, como un medio para descolonizar el pensamiento y denunciar las contradicciones de nuestra época. En esta ocasión platicamos con él sobre su obra, los ideales que residen en ella y algunos puntos de encuentro entre las sociedades mexicana y cubana.

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may 262017
 

August 5 — October 15, 2017

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Through performance, installation, video, and photography, these artists question ideas traditionally associated with American liberty as they resonate in forms of collective identity across the globe.

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Curated by Marisa Caichiolo

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Artists: Eugenia Vargas Pereira, Norton Maza, Leonardo Gonzalez, Angel Delgado, Omar Pimienta, Luiza Prado, Reynier Leyva Novo, Carlos Martiel, Betsabee Romero, Linda Vallejo, Andrea Juan, Angel Ricardo Rios, Ricardo Rodriguez, Eliu Almonte.

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Muzeo Museum and Cultural Center | 241 S Anaheim Blvd, Anaheim, CA 92805

may 142017
 

Performance Box – arteBA
del 24 al 27 de Mayo, 2017

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Curaduría: Rodrigo Alonso

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El Performance Box es un espacio diseñado para la manifestación de esta práctica en diferentes modalidades. Presentará performances en vivo, registros de acciones y piezas creadas para ser visualizadas exclusivamente en video. Entre estas últimas, se incluyen trabajos fundamentales de su historia y actualidad, realizados por destacados autores de la Argentina, América Latina y el resto del mundo. De esta manera, el Performance Box será un ámbito no solo para el encuentro con el arte-vivo, sino también, para la apreciación de producciones que lo expanden en el tiempo y en el espacio, aportando densidad conceptual, historia y contexto.

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arteBA | Av. Sarmiento 2704, 1425 CABA, Argentina

abr 272017
 

Carlos Martiel in Conversation with Job Piston for Performa Magazine

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I first met artist Carlos Martiel during the Performa 15 Biennial, at a party for his former teacher Tania Brugera’s first Performa Digital Commission. Last February, a year and a half later, we met over email and a few layers of translation, to discuss his current work, inspirations, and performance philosophy. His next performance can be seen in the Cuban Pavillion at the 57th Venice Biennale on May 12th. Martiel’s inital responses were in Spanish, and a full Spanish version of this interview follows the English one.

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abr 202017
 

Una mostra di Carlos Martiel
by Emanuele Riccomi for OperaViva Magazine

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La Galleria Rossmut di Roma ha ospitato la prima personale in Italia di Carlos Martiel (L’Avana, 1989), a cura di Diego Sileo, curatore del Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea di Milano e profondo conoscitore dell’arte cubana. La mostra ha raccolto la documentazione fotografica e i video che mostrano alcune sue performance realizzate dal 2009 al 2016 tra Cuba, gli Stati Uniti, l’America Latina e l’Europa, fornendo allo spettatore la possibilità di confrontarsi con l’eterogeneità del pensiero e delle azioni dell’artista.

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Protagonista principale e elemento privilegiato dei lavori di Martiel è il corpo, un corpo utilizzato come strumento per indagare le relazioni politiche e sociali su cui si basano i rapporti umani, mettendone in luce le contraddizioni e la crudeltà, raccontando la forza del potere e le azioni che esso compie per mantenere il proprio status. Oltre a denunciare le strutture oppressive, il rapporto conflittuale con la memoria del colonialismo sia di chi lo ha subìto sia di chi lo ha perpetrato, l’artista si rivolge ai comuni cittadini, all’indifferenza che mostrano nei confronti delle dinamiche di violenza e prevaricazione che subiscono quotidianamente i ceti meno abbienti, i senzatetto e i migranti, soprattutto nel mondo occidentale. Martiel ne mostra il carattere più duro attraverso azioni in cui arriva a mettere a rischio la propria incolumità, lavorando sulla resistenza sia al dolore sia alla degradazione e all’umiliazione autoimposta.

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abr 062017
 

Interview by Michela Casavola for Exibart

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Il corpo di Carlos Martiel è un corpo fisico e politico, ovvero è attraverso la sua cruda esposizione che l’artista cubano mette in scena le rappresentazioni del nostro presente, esplorandone la natura dell’esistenza, le barriere sociali e tradizioni culturali. Attraverso una serie di situazioni rischiose, di sofferenza o privazione, Martiel (nato nel 1989) ci offre un ritratto lucido di noi, dell’altro, e del nostro modo di guardare alla “diversità” e agli stereotipi. Lo abbiamo intervistato, attraversando opere, Paesi, e questioni di pelle.

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mar 132017
 

Exhibiton of The Cuban Pavillon at 57th Biennale di Venezia
May 12 – November 26, 2017
Opening 6:30 pm

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Curator José Manuel Noceda

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Artists: Abel Barroso, Iván Capote, Roberto Diago, Roberto Fabelo, José Manuel Fors, Aimée García, Reynier Leyva Novo, Meira Marrero & José Ángel Toirac, Carlos Martiel, René Peña, Mabel Poblet, Wilfredo Prieto, Esterio Segura, José Eduardo Yaque.

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Palazzo Loredan | Campo S. Stefano 2945, Venice, Italy

ene 012017
 

March 5, 2017 — May 21, 2017

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

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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.

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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.

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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

dic 292016
 

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

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Curated by Marisa Caichiolo

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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.

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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.

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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

dic 222016
 

ARTE FIERA
January 27-30, 2017.

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

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(more info here)

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