Carlos Garaicoa
Acerca de la Caja del Reloj y del Tiempo Que Se Ha Ido (About the Grandfather Clock and How Long It's Been Gone)
About the SessionSpanning 4 centuries of global art history, The International Sale, presents 127 exceptional lots by artists from 27 countries across five continents. The auction highlights masterworks ranging from 17th century European paintings to post-2000 editions by contemporary artist's such as Mr Brainwash (lot 51), Jim Dine (lots 83-86), Isaac Julien (lot 108), Jeff Koons (45), and Lucas Samaras (lot 107 and 110). The sale is anchored by important pieces from Georg Baselitz, Erik Laubscher, Shirin Neshat, and a newly repatriated 1935 portrait by Irma Stern.
The auction's diversity is driven by rare museum-quality highlights, led by Irma Stern's Two Women (lot 31), which returns to South Africa after decades in a Berlin private collection. It is joined by Erik Laubscher's rare recto-verso painting Young Family / Construction (lot 48), an Iranian-American artist Shirin Neshat photographic portrait linked to her award-winning Turbulent installation (lot 66), and a uniquely hand-coloured linocut by German master Georg Baselitz titled Das Pferd, Im Wald und auf der Heide Series (The Horse, in the Forest and on the Heath Series) (lot 72).
LOT 111
Carlos Garaicoa
Acerca de la Caja del Reloj y del Tiempo Que Se Ha Ido (About the Grandfather Clock and How Long It's Been Gone)
About this Item
signed, inscribed with the artist's name, title and dated on the reverse; inscribed with the artist's name, the dated, title, medium on Goodman Gallery label adhered to the reverse
Provenance
Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg.
The Linda Givon Collection.
Notes
The present lot is an Artist Proof, from an edition of 5.
″Carlos Garaicoa translates his fascination with the ruins of Havana into drawings, photographs, and mixed-media and video installations. 'The city is a very rich subject to make work about love, hate, history, beauty, what people expect from life and how politics get involved,' he has said. His installations evoke a Havana in a state of tension between utopian ideals and dilapidated reality″¹
Cuban artist Carlos Garaicoa initially trained in thermodynamics, before going on to study art at the Instituto Superior de Arte between 1989 and 1994. Garaicoa's work spans drawing, photography, performance, and mixed-media installations, reflecting a dialogue between utopian ideals and the realities of post-revolutionary Havana. His installations, such as Japanese Garden (2001), juxtapose serene aesthetics with stark images of urban decay, challenging perceptions of space and culture through his art.
Garaicoa has exhibited globally, including at the Johannesburg Biennale in 1995, Documenta 11 in 2002, and twice at the Venice Biennale in 2005 and 2009. He has earned accolades like the XXXIX International Contemporary Art Prize in 2005, and his works are in important collections such as the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, Tate Modern in London, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris, amongst others. He currently lives and works between Havana and Madrid, Spain.
1. Artsy (no date) Carlos Garaicoa, online, accessed 24 August 2024.
Exhibited
1st Johannesburg Biennale, Africus '95, 1995.
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