Carlos Garaicoa
Proyecto para Encarnar el Triunfo

Proyecto para Encarnar el Triunfo

© the artist and GALLERIA CONTINUA, San Gimignano / Beijing / Les Moulins / Habana

Proyecto para Encarnar el Triunfo
Proyecto para Encarnar el Triunfo
ArtistCuban, born 1967
CultureCuban
Titles
  • Proyecto para Encarnar el Triunfo
  • Project for Embodying Triumph
Date1994
Place depictedHavana, Cuba
MediumGelatin silver print and ink with graphite on wove paper and tracing paper
DimensionsImage (.A, photograph): 4 1/8 × 6 1/4 in. (10.5 × 15.9 cm)
 Sheet (.A, photograph): 4 15/16 × 7 in. (12.5 × 17.8 cm)
 Sheet (.B, rendering): 19 9/16 × 27 1/2 in. (49.7 × 69.9 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Anne Wilkes Tucker and Tom and Elizabeth McBride
Object number94.790.A,.B
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Special Collections
Object Type
DescriptionAdopting the city of Havana as his laboratory, Carlos Garaicoa has been working since the early 1990s using a multidisciplinary approach that includes architecture and urbanism, photography, sculpture, history, and politics. His works are charged with provocative commentary on issues such as architecture’s ability to alter the course of history, the failure of modernism as a catalyst for social change, and the frustration and decay of 20th-century utopias. Interested in urban planning and a city’s architectural social fabric, in Project for the Pillar, Garaicoa illustrates his vision in a drawing, making a direct reference to an unfinished architectural project in Havana as seen in the accompanying photograph, thus commenting on the failure of Havana’s once utopian city planning.
ProvenanceThe artist, Madrid; purchased by MFAH, 1994.
Exhibition HistoryExhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Lower Brown Corridor, "Contemporary Latin American Photography from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Collection", October 3, 2001 -January 27, 2002.

"Ruptures and Continuities: Photography Made after 1960 from the MFAH Collection," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Brown Foundation Galleries, February 21 - May 9, 2010.

“The Will to Architecture,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, April 1–July 6, 2014.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
The photograph is signed and dated beneath the lower right corner of the overmat: "C Garaicoa 1994". The rendering is signed and dated in black ink, lower left corner: "C Garaicoa 1994".

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