Carlos Estevez: Mindscape: a depiction of the inner universe
July 26 – September 28, 2024
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Gerald Peters Gallery is pleased to announce the first solo show of Cuban American artist Carlos Estevez. The exhibition will be comprised of 16 canvases with the uniting theme of the human universe. I have always felt fascinated by the spiritual universe of the human being. In my work, I try to approach the idea of the mind as a cosmos, a microcosm that contains the information of the infinite. This information, translated into images and symbolic associations, shapes the landscapes of the mind that I present here. That invisible realm in which we dwell, but that no one can see, contains ideas, thoughts, emotions, feelings, and dreams that I bring to life in my paintings. Art acts as a vehicle, through its magic, transporting us to these unknown landscapes, activating them and creating a bridge from the depths of the creator's inner world to the depths of the viewers' souls. This transcends time, contexts, and forms of thought. Carlos Estevez Gerald Peters Gallery 1005 Paseo de Peralta. Santa Fe, NM 87501 Tuesday – Saturday, 10am – 5pm Janda Wetherington, Director jwetherington@gpgallery.com 505-954-5755 |
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INWARD LIGHT
Carlos Estévez
MARCH 30 - MAY 25, 2024
Thomas Nickles Project is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition with the gallery of Cuban-born artist Carlos Estévez. Animated by a deep interest in questions of human spirituality, Estévez’s stated goal is to use his work to reveal the invisible realm of the spirit that lies hidden beneath the visible world, a process he refers to as an alchemical, metaphysical transformation of mystery into knowledge. With a three-decade practice and a transdisciplinary voice; the imagery populating his work bears a dreamy quality. Estevez’s upcoming exhibition, Inward Light, will be presented as part of a collaboration with the Miami based gallery Pan American Art Projects.
Inward Light is —as the artist notes— an invitation to reflect on the challenges of the present, using art as a tool to illuminate the inner path. The conceptual underpinnings and formal qualities of Inward Light reflect Estévez’s interest in depictions of spiritual guidance —Art can be a beacon, for those who want to follow it. Each piece in the exhibition, whether a painting, drawing or sculpture, reimagines a lighthouse populated by his recurring fantastical architectures and cosmic geometries manipulating real and illusory space as seen in Polifon Lighthouse. Estévez uses golden colors on a black background, varied textures, and protruding sculptural elements to draw viewers into a layered, contemplative experience ongoing throughout the exhibition. With Inward Light, Carlos Estévez maps a spiritual landscape that resembles our own, reflecting the energies, longings and sublimations in which the search for a better life is woven.
Thomas Nickles Project
47 Orchard St, New York, NY 10002
kt@thomasnickles.com
917-902-6682
Inward Light is —as the artist notes— an invitation to reflect on the challenges of the present, using art as a tool to illuminate the inner path. The conceptual underpinnings and formal qualities of Inward Light reflect Estévez’s interest in depictions of spiritual guidance —Art can be a beacon, for those who want to follow it. Each piece in the exhibition, whether a painting, drawing or sculpture, reimagines a lighthouse populated by his recurring fantastical architectures and cosmic geometries manipulating real and illusory space as seen in Polifon Lighthouse. Estévez uses golden colors on a black background, varied textures, and protruding sculptural elements to draw viewers into a layered, contemplative experience ongoing throughout the exhibition. With Inward Light, Carlos Estévez maps a spiritual landscape that resembles our own, reflecting the energies, longings and sublimations in which the search for a better life is woven.
Thomas Nickles Project
47 Orchard St, New York, NY 10002
kt@thomasnickles.com
917-902-6682
The Life of Meanings
Carlos Estevez Solo Show
September 24 - December 3, 2022
Opening Reception | Saturday, September 24, 2022
Pan American Art Projects is delighted to announce The Life of Meanings, a solo show that introduces the newest works by Carlos Estevez, who has received the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant, the Cintas Foundation Fellowship in Visual Arts, The Ellies Creator Award, and the Grand Prize in the First Salon of Contemporary Cuban Art in Havana, among other recognitions. The exhibition presents different micro-universes of memory, small spaces of the artist's identity and for everyone who builds their own “life of meanings”. Estevez narrates his dreams through interactive works; cabinets of curiosities, paintings of imagined cities and drawings conceived as intellectual maps.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalog with a principal text by Maritza Lacayo, Assistant Curator of the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) and one of the most important critical voices in the artistic context of Miami; and texts by Claudia Taboada, the exhibit curator, and Janda Wetherington, the person who has been the Director of Pan American Art Projects for more than twenty years and has followed the artist’s trajectory since then. Also, we will be offering for sale some copies of the monograph written by the well known art critic Carol Damian on the work of Carlos Estevez on the occasion of his exhibition at the Tucson Museum in 2019, a book that offers a broader and retrospective overview of his work.
Carlos Estevez was born and raised in Cuba and moved to Miami in 2004, where he lives and works. He graduated from the University of Arts (ISA) in Havana and solo exhibitions of his work have been presented at the National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana; Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona; The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami; Center of Contemporary Art, New Orleans; Lowe Art Museum at Miami University, Florida; and the Stoors Gallery at University of North Carolina, Charlotte. Estevez has participated in group exhibitions presented at the 6th and 7th Havana Biennials; the 1st Biennial of Martinique; Arizona State University Art Museum in Tempe; Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida; Maison de l’Amerique Latine, Paris, France; Casa de América, Palacio de Linares, Madrid, Spain; and several others.
www.panamericanart.com
miami@panamericanart.com
274 NE 67th, Miami, FL 33138
+1 (305) 751 255
The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalog with a principal text by Maritza Lacayo, Assistant Curator of the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) and one of the most important critical voices in the artistic context of Miami; and texts by Claudia Taboada, the exhibit curator, and Janda Wetherington, the person who has been the Director of Pan American Art Projects for more than twenty years and has followed the artist’s trajectory since then. Also, we will be offering for sale some copies of the monograph written by the well known art critic Carol Damian on the work of Carlos Estevez on the occasion of his exhibition at the Tucson Museum in 2019, a book that offers a broader and retrospective overview of his work.
Carlos Estevez was born and raised in Cuba and moved to Miami in 2004, where he lives and works. He graduated from the University of Arts (ISA) in Havana and solo exhibitions of his work have been presented at the National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana; Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona; The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami; Center of Contemporary Art, New Orleans; Lowe Art Museum at Miami University, Florida; and the Stoors Gallery at University of North Carolina, Charlotte. Estevez has participated in group exhibitions presented at the 6th and 7th Havana Biennials; the 1st Biennial of Martinique; Arizona State University Art Museum in Tempe; Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida; Maison de l’Amerique Latine, Paris, France; Casa de América, Palacio de Linares, Madrid, Spain; and several others.
www.panamericanart.com
miami@panamericanart.com
274 NE 67th, Miami, FL 33138
+1 (305) 751 255
Beachcomber
September 18, 2020 - January 16, 2021
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LaCa Projects presents Beachcomber, the gallery’s third solo exhibition of internationally acclaimed contemporary artist Carlos Estévez. Beachcomber is a multimedia exhibition consisting of over fifty artworks in painting, found object assemblage, and ceramics. Join us for the unveiling of a pivotal juncture in the continuous evolution of Carlos’ artistic process, with references to archetypal themes of metaphysics, transformation, and human spirituality.
In these works, Estévez builds worlds, allegories for the tension between our microcosms of imagination and our macrocosms of existence, as we try to suspend ourselves between the two to maintain our sanity. He draws from experiences as varied as his compositions: a life started in Cuba, but with significant time in Paris, Charlotte, and in the last few decades, Miami. He bends these experiences through the conceptual lens of illuminated manuscripts, medieval texts, and contemporary philosophy, what Estévez has described as “transcriptions and translations of my everyday observations into images.” In honor of this exhibition, a socially distant opening reception will take place at LaCa Projects on Friday, September 18th, from 3 – 8 PM. A catalogue accompanying this exhibition will be available soon. LaCa Projects 1429 Bryant Street Charlotte, North Carolina 28208 +1 704 837 1688 info@lacaprojects.com |
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Carlos Estévez: The Royal Blue Tarot
Online Exhibition: May 1st – August 31st, 2020
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The Coral Gables Museum presents the virtual exhibition Carlos Estévez: The Royal Blue Tarot.
The Tarot cards and their mysterious meanings have fueled popular imagination and creativity throughout the centuries. They have not only served as divination tools for psychics, magicians, and their curious clientele, but also as means for artistic explorations on the fundamental questions of humanity. Artist Carlos Estévez joins this tradition with his own interpretation of the 22 Major Arcana in his series Royal Blue Tarot realized in 2016, while in a residence in Paris, France. The virtual exhibition will be accompanied by an introductory text of Coral Gables Museum's Executive Director, John Allen and an interview to the artist by his friend and collector, José Valdés-Fauli. "My drawings, paintings, sculptures and installations reveal the invisible realm to the spirit that lies hidden beneath the visible world." – Carlos Estévez The Coral Gables Museum’s mission is to celebrate, investigate and explore the civic arts of architecture and urban and environmental design, including fostering an appreciation for the history, vision, and cultural landscape of Coral Gables; promoting beauty and planning as well as historic and environmental preservation for a broad audience, including children, families, and community members, as well as local, regional, national and international visitors. The museum optimizes its mission by cultivating effective partnerships, and providing programming that includes exhibitions, collections, educational offerings, lectures, tours, publications and special events. |
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Palimpsest: Ceramic Works by Carlos Estévez
January 13 – March 27, 2020
Receptions: February 20, 6:00-8:00 pm; February 21, 12:30-1:30 pm
Storrs Gallery, UNC Charlotte
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The UNC Charlotte College of Arts + Architecture presents ceramic works by Cuban-American artist Carlos Estévez in Palimpsest, on view in Storrs Gallery through March 27. The exhibition is a culmination of three ceramic series that Estévez produced between 2016 and 2018. Two series were produced by Estévez during a residency at the McColl Center for Art + Innovation in 2016. The collective body of work focuses on the relationship between visual art and literature: Each installation is inspired by a celebrated Hispanic writer.
Estévez is known for his draftsman style and focus on surrealistic subjects. Bestiary, consisting of 19 ceramic platters, was inspired by Dulce María Loynaz (1902-1997), a Cuban poet whose works are often considered precursors to magical realism in literature. Domestic Zoology, a dinnerware set for 12 people, was inspired by the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), whose works are known for their dreamlike subjects and complex symbolism. The third installation, consisting of 11 plates, was a collaboration between Estévez and Antonio Orlando Rodríguez, a contemporary Cuban fiction writer who won the renowned Alfaguara Prize. Located in the Thomas I. Storrs Building on the UNC Charlotte campus, the Storrs Gallery showcases professional and student work relating to the curriculum in the School of Architecture and the creative endeavors of the College. For more info, please click here. Hours:Storrs Gallery is open Monday-Friday, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. UNC Charlotte | College of Art + Architecture 9201 University City Blvd | Charlotte, NC 28223 Phone: 704-687-0833 |
Lowe Art Museum October 24, 2019 - Jan 8, 2021
Carlos Estévez: Cities of the Mind
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The Lowe Art Museum unveils a new exhibition that explores the depth of humanity through Cities of the Mind, on view from October 24, 2019 through May 3, 2020, with an opening reception with the Artist, which is open to the public, to be held on October 24 from 7 – 9 p.m. The most recent project of renowned Cuban-born, Miami-based artist Carlos Estévez (b. 1969), Cities of the Mind features nine large-format paintings that reference the artist’s fascination with city plans. Inspired by the Havana of his youth, the Medieval European cities to which he has traveled extensively as an adult, and his abiding interest in symbolic cosmology and origin stories, Estévez has created in this new body of work personal maps of the human mind influenced by ancient cartography. This exhibition was guest-curated by Dr. Carol Damian, former Professor of Art History, Florida International University and Former Director of the Frost Art Museum. This show was made possible thanks to the generosity of Lowe members, the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade Mayor, the State of Florida Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Council on Arts and Culture, Marijean and Raphael Miyar, Suzanne and Chris Armstrong, Laura Blanco and Robert Shainheit, and Raul R. Rodriguez. THIS EXHIBITION IS ACCOMPANIED BY A CATALOGUE About Lowe Art Museum The Lowe Art Museum (www.miami.edu/lowe) is located on the campus of the University of Miami at 1301 Stanford Drive, Coral Gables, Florida. With a permanent collection of more than 19,250 objects spanning 5,000 years of world culture, the Lowe is committed to serving as a vital resource for education and enrichment through art. Its dynamic permanent and temporary exhibitions establish the Lowe as a keeper of memories, a showcase for masterworks, an igniter of awe and wonder, and a bridge between yesterday and today. Museum gallery hours are Tuesday to Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Sunday, noon to 4 p.m. The Museum is closed on Mondays and University holidays. General Admission (not including programs) is $12.50, $8 for senior citizens and non-UM students, and free for Lowe members, UM students, faculty and staff, and children under 12. Admission is free on Pay-What-You-Wish Day, the first Tuesday of every month. For more information, call 305-284-3535, follow us on Facebook.com/loweartmuseum, Twitter at @loweartmuseum, and Instagram at Instagram/loweartmuseum or visit lowemuseum.org. |
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OBSERVATORIOS OBSERVABLES
Recent Works at Artscape Lab. Miami, FL Opening reception: Saturday February 16th, 7pm - 10pm Observatorios Observables is the most recent body of work of Carlos Estévez (Havana,1969), comprised of nine large paintings that depart from the idea of surveillance, navigational instruments and vision from a metaphysical point of view. Estévez is fascinated by the construction of spellbinding objects, painted and perfectly-arranged, that embody their own sense of sculpture, regardless of their function. He is inspired by ancient architectural drawings and gear schematics, the inner mechanisms of watches and cosmological charts, resulting in large and detailed technical depictions of imaginary yet complex mechanical devices. Obsessed by our relation to the universe, life and the cycles of nature, he has created his own mapping of apparatuses that function in metaphorical ways.
The exhibition marks the first collaboration with Artscape Lab Gallery in Miami and will be on view until Abril 19th, 2019. |
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Carlos Estevez: EntelechyWorks from 1992 to 2018Tucson Museum of Art
January 26 - May 5, 2019 The art of Carlos Estévez reveals an interest in the link between human spirituality and the infinity of human experience. He explores notions of symbolism, time, anatomy, metaphysics and the cosmos in a quest for understanding that transcends the visual to enter the realm of the mind in complex works in different media.
Entelechy, from the Greek entelecheia, is a philosophical concept that addresses the transformation of an idea into a reality. The work of Carlos Estévez also makes actual this potential in images and objects. His art is the representation of a personal and unique vision that is a reflexive process, assimilating the world in order to reintegrate it once more into a cosmic vision that symbolizes the artist’s marks in the universe. His fundamental sources have been encyclopedias as metaphors of confinement within an object (book) that comes from human knowledge, from which he acquires symbols and images to represent ideas about human existence. The exhibition is curated by Dr. Carol Damian, former Professor of Art and Art History and former Director and Chief Curator at the Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University. Dr. Damian is a specialist in the Art of Latin America and the Caribbean with many years of curatorial, writing, administrative, and professional experience in the arts. |
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The Secret Life of CitiesLike any other city built by men, these that Carlos presents to us reveal the human mark through material and spiritual culture: everything in them, from architecture to everyday objects, remind their creators, not visible in the paintings and sculptures, but present in each piece: maps, lampposts, automaton pedestrians, masks, utensils and anthropomorphic devices.
In this exhibition, we observe the layout of several cities: we contemplate them from a distance, as seen from a great height, which reveals certain details to us, while hiding others. It will be up to the visitor to decipher these conglomerations formed by geometric figures and place them in a known place or simply decide if they are only a modification of space and time. The view consists of six installations of drawings on paper and an installation of objects that were found converted into masks. A result of the daily experiences of the artist –a conversation between the city’s stories and his own personal world. |
Mundos paralelosAllegro Gallery
August 22 - September 26, 2018 El miércoles 29 de agosto, a las 7 pm se inauguró Mundos Paralelos, la tercera muestra individual de Carlos Estévez en Allegro. Carlos también ha participado en varias muestras colectivas en la galería, entre ellas la exposición A través del espejo: Arte cubano hoy y Andamiajes.
Uno de los artistas cubanos más destacados de su generación, Carlos Estévez (La Habana, 1969) es un artista multidisciplinario, trabajando con una amplia gama de medios a través de los cuales encarna varios conceptos filosóficos y artísticos que exploran la relación entre el hombre y el universo. Los mapas y las ciudades han tenido una gran influencia en la obra de Carlos Estévez. Mundos Paralelos presenta un cambio en el uso de ciertas figuras y símbolos que estaban presentes en sus trabajos anteriores. La esencia de su obra permanece intacta. Con mayor síntesis y uso de figuras geométricas, Carlos continúa explorando el mundo metafísico, y busca "representar el trazado del cosmos y las ciudades, lugares de la mente que nunca existieron, diseñar un universo habitable, convertir en imágenes esos mundos "sumergidos" y personales, con la intención de que el espectador pueda visitar estos lugares, recorrerlos y hacerlos suyos." |
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Transeúntes (Transients) LaCa Projects
January 18 - March 17, 2018 The recent work of Carlos Estévez explores the subtle dynamics of human interactions and the concept that life is in a permanent state of transience. The origins of the work began in the spring of 2016, when Estévez was in residence at the McColl Center for Art + Innovation in Charlotte, North Carolina, and continued later that summer during his residency at the Brownstone Foundation in Paris, France. Fascinated with the teaming energy of urban life in Paris, Estévez regularly visited the Place des Vosges to observe the interactions of people as individuals and as groups. Transients captures an important period of Estévez’s transition into a highly personal abstract visual language.
Dream Ballet, a series within the Transients body of work, is a fantasy about a ballet where ballerinas are developing their individual performances as soloists. Another series, Wind Quintet, is inspired by the music of the Spanish composer Manuel de Falla, Ritual Fire Dance (a movement for the ballet, The Bewitched Love). Estévez listened to the music while drawing these characters, and the musicians are depicted in a metamorphosis where they fuse with the instruments while they are playing. Finally, String Septet is inspired by the Beethoven septet in E-flat Major, Op 20. For this series, Estévez submerged into the same experience of Wind Quintet, letting the music lead the lines. |
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