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LOS CARPINTEROS (1992-2018)
Inmunidad
signed and dated 'Los Carpinteros, La Hab. 98' (lower right), titled 'Inmunidad' (center left)
watercolor and graphite on paper
3112 x 5118 in. (80 x 130 cm.)
Executed in 1998.
Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner.
Exhibited
Geneva, World Health Orgination Headquarters; New York, United Nations Building; São Paolo, SESC Pompéia; New Delhi, Lalit Kala Akademi; Milan, La Triennale di Milano; New York, MoMA PS1, The Edge of Awareness, May 1998–January 1999.
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A portion of the proceeds of this sale will support ART for The World's missions and continuous activities in art, cinema, and culture as a bridge with the UNSDG (Sustainable Developments Goals).
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Lot Essay

“Immunity, protection, fear, risk, aggression, impotence, clean…..room, instability, time, emergency…. fragile, closed, affable, limit, separate…” (Los Carpinteros, 1998).

The present work was realized in La Havana in 1998 for the exhibition “The Edge of Awareness,” a traveling exhibition curated by ART for The World, a non-governmental organization founded in 1996, in commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the World Health Organization.

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