Cama
Los Carpinteros
Los Carpinteros
Cama, 2007
Foam, fabric, metal, stainless steel, epoxy paint
125 x 345 x 510 cm
Co-produced by Atelier CALDER | le lieu Unique | Sean Kelley Gallery
TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection
Installation view: Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary. Collection as Aleph, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria, 2008
Photo: Jen Fong Photography
Los Carpinteros
Cama, 2007
Foam, fabric, metal, stainless steel, epoxy paint
125 x 345 x 510 cm
Co-produced by Atelier CALDER | le lieu Unique | Sean Kelley Gallery
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection
Installation view: Los Carpinteros. Handwork – Constructing the World, Es Baluard Museu d’Art Modern i Contemporani, Palma, Spain, 2011
Photo: Rif Spahni, 2011
- Date
- 2007
- Medium
- Foam, fabric, metal, stainless steel, epoxy paint
- Dimension
- 125 x 345 x 510 cm
- Credit
Co-produced by Atelier CALDER / le lieu Unique / Sean Kelley Gallery
TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection- This artwork is part of the donation and long-term loan from TBA21 to the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza.
Details
Cama (Bed) investigates Los Carpinteros' interest in objects of domesticity: by altering the original form of a simple bed, the duo also subverts its meanings and function. The frame and the mattress of the metal bed have two bifurcating extensions, which loop around themselves, creating a surreal highway junction. Though the bed cannot be used in the traditional way, it alludes to actions such as sleeping, dreaming, and having sex.
Firmly posited in the realm of the domestic, Cama explores the mutable territory between the pragmatic and the imaginary. The highly intimate human refuge of the home is evocatively juxtaposed with the realm of public (exhibition) space.
