Sculpted Icons
- Dagoberto Rodríguez
- Los Carpinteros
- Pedro de Oraá
Sculpted Icons brings together works by Dagoberto Rodríguez, Los Carpinteros, and Pedro de Oraá around a shared investigation of form, structure, and imagination. Across watercolor and painting, architecture and geometry become vehicles for speculation: crystalline bodies suspended in space, utopian structures, transparent geological formations, and abstract constructions charged with symbolic presence. Presented at Front Row at The Moore, the exhibition considers how sculptural thinking can exist beyond physical volume, through images that transform structure into idea.
Gema Ingrávida
- Dagoberto Rodríguez · 2022 · Watercolor on paper
A sphere assembled from hundreds of crystalline prisms, suspended in space like an artificial cell — at once mineral gem, astronomical model, and futuristic organism.
Three practices
Dagoberto Rodríguez (b. 1969, Caibarién, Cuba) is a visual artist whose practice spans drawing, sculpture, and installation, exploring speculative architectures, possible futures, and symbolic structures of power. He is a co-founder of Los Carpinteros.
Los Carpinteros was founded in Havana in 1992 by Marco Castillo, Dagoberto Rodríguez, and Alexandre Arrechea. Working at the intersection of art, design, and architecture, the collective examined ideological systems, institutional spaces, and functional objects through watercolor and sculpture. The group dissolved in 2018.
Pedro de Oraá (1931–2020, Havana, Cuba) was a foundational figure of Cuban concrete art and a co-founder of Los Diez Pintores Concretos. His painting is built on geometric abstraction, chromatic planes, and spatial construction, and is held in collections including MoMA, New York, and the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Cuba.