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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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