The Hands of the Collector, a new solo exhibition of Marco Castillo's recent work at the Cranbrook Art Museum, features several bodies of work by the artist that he initially started to amass while working as part of the artist collective Los Carpinteros (1992–2018). Castillo incorporates the aesthetics derived from Cuban modernism in his practice to resurrect Cuban design history and to critique the oppression by the government against artists, designers, and intellectuals in Cuba. The work is a freeze-frame of deconstruction, a reference to the demise of autonomy of Cuban artists and the loss of creative life under a dictatorship.
Marco Castillo: The Hands of the Collector is exhibited in conjunction with A Modernist Regime: Cuban Mid-Century Design, Cranbrook's presentation on Cuban mid-century design anchored by an under-acknowledged collection of furniture and furnishings.
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