CARLOS GARAICOA (b. 1967)
El juego de las decapitaciones (The Decapitation Game)
signed 'C. Garaicoa' (center left and again on the verso of disc); titled and dated 'El juego de las decapitaciones, 1993, La Habana, Cuba' (verso of disc)
unique concrete disc and vintage gelatin silver prints, in four parts
disc diameter: 25 in. (63.5 cm.)
photographs, each: 19³⁄₄ x 23³⁄₄ in. (50.2 x 60.3 cm.)
overall dimensions are variable when installed.
Executed in 1993.

Galería Habana, Cuba
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2008

G. Mosquera, The City as Art: Interrogating the Polis, 1994, p. 75 (detail, illustrated).
L. Fusi, et al., Carlos Garaicoa: La misura di quasi tutte le cose, 2004, p. 173 (illustrated in color).
R. Weiss, To and From Utopia in the New Cuban Art, 2011, p. 185 (illustrated in color).
S. Sánchez, Carlos Garaicoa: Anotaciones inconclusas sobre una práctica artística, 30 June 2016 (illustrated in color). Accessed on 6/8/2024: https://susetsanchez.wordpress.com/entrevistas/carlos-garaicoa/

Havana, Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, Las metáforas del templo/The Metaphors of the Temple, 1993.
South Africa, Africus: Johannesburg Biennale, 28 February-30 April 1995, p. 131 (detail, illustrated in color).
Havana, Casa de las Américas, Fragmentos a su imán, June 1998 (illustrated).
Bogotá, Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Carlos Garaicoa: La ruina, la utopía, 14 June-20 August 2000, n. 9, p. 44 (illustrated in color).

This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist, dated 10 July 2009.

We are grateful for the Estudio Carlos Garaicoa for their assistance cataloguing this work.

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