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Los Carpinteros

Free Basketball – The Same

2010
watercolor on paper 44¾ h × 70½ w in (114 × 179 cm)
estimate: $8,000–12,000
result: $9,375
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Signed, titled and dated to lower edge ‘Free Basketball-The Same Los Carpinteros March 2010’.
provenance: The Artist and Sean Kelly Gallery, New York | Ripley Auctions, Indianapolis, Contemporary Art Auction Benefitting the Indianapolis Museum of Art, 21 September 2012, Lot 5 | Private Collection

This work will ship from Wright in Chicago, Illinois.

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Cuban artist collective Los Carpinteros was founded by Marco Antonio Castillo Valdes, Dagoberto Rodriguez Sanchez, and Alexandre Arrechea in 1992. Eschewing the notion of the lone artist, Los Carpinteros instead aligned themselves with the traditional model of a guild comprised of artisans and skilled laborers. Their work reflects this ethos, taking the form of drawing, sculpture, and installation that exists between art, architecture, and design, often incorporating utopic thinking.

'Los Carpinteros' seemed perfect for us because we wanted to investigate issues of the way art is made, the way that an object is fabricated. To speak of a carpenter is to speak of the way something is made.

Marco Castillo of Los Carpinteros

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