Carlos Garaicoa

The exhibition of Carlos Garaicoa at the MAAT museum in Lisbon explores the relationship between the city and the individual, architecture and urbanism, fiction and reality.

Carlos Garaicoa, Yo nunca he sido surrealista hasta el día de hoy, MAAT, Lisbon 2017
The Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT) in Lisbon opened a large-scale project by Cuban artist Carlos Garaicoa: Yo nunca he sido surrealista hasta el día de hoy occupies nearly 1,000 sqm of the kunsthalle’s Oval Gallery. The exhibition coincides with the second edition of ARCOlisboa art fair, sponsored by the EDP Foundation, and the opening of MAAT’s Art Fair with two more exhibitions.

 

The exhibition explores the relationship between the city and the individual, architecture and urbanism, fiction and reality. With his work Garaicoa addresses issues that are socially relevant to the geopolitical contexts in which he works. He focuses particularly on the (mis)matches between Europe and Latin America; on the search for an alternative history, free from the colonial and Eurocentric bias which is dominant in Latin America; on the failure of the modernist project and the collapse of the great utopias of the 20th century; on the economic, social and political transformations and contradictions of contemporary society and their impact on the urban landscape.

Carlos Garaicoa, Yo nunca he sido surrealista hasta el día de hoy, MAAT, Lisbon 2017
Carlos Garaicoa, Yo nunca he sido surrealista hasta el día de hoy, MAAT, Lisbon 2017

until 19 September 2017
Carlos Garaicoa
Yo nunca he sido surrealista hasta el día de Hoy
curated by Pedro Gadanho & Inês Grosso
MAAT
Av. Brasília, Central Tejo, Lisbon

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