Los Carpinteros: El Pueblo Se Equivoca

El Pueblo Se Equivoca [The People Make Mistakes], the new solo show by Cuban duo Los Carpinteros, occupies both venues of Galeria Fortes Vilaça with works that explore themes of current interest in Brazil through their renowned approach of political and social critique.

Two pieces are presented at Fortes Vilaça Galpão. The installation Galletas Dulces is an assembly line that makes cookies shaped after concepts extracted from Brazilian newspapers – corruption, political reform, fiscal adjustment, Olympic Games and others. Constrictora, with 16m length, is a snake-like piece whose skin is formed by metallic election buttons carrying the initials of the main Brazilian parties.

At Galeria Fortes Vilaça, the duo presents works where formalist concerns can be apprehended, and the social political aspects appear in a more subtle way. With the series Tijolo de Tijolo, Los Carpinteros present pieces in ceramics, where each brick is created by the assembly of several miniature bricks, pointing both to the idea of collectivity as to the anonymity of the construction workers. In Sobres, a work that flerts with geometric abstraction, a series of envelopes assume several shapes in a poetical reinterpretation of a banal and bureaucratic material. The work that titles the show, by its turn, is a wooden maquette inspired in State buildings, an allusion to the architecture of power. On the buildings façades, the windows are letters that form the sentence El Pueblo Se Equivoca.

The duo is formed by Marco Castillo (b. 1969, Cuba) and Dagoberto Rodríguez (b. 1971, Cuba). They live and work between Habana and Madrid.