Wilfredo Prieto
El Fanguito
15 Bienal de la Habana, Barrio el Fanguito, La Habana
Nov 16 - Jan 16, 2025
Wilfredo Prieto
Wilfredo Prieto’s work indistinctly implements installation, video or performance, proposing spaces for reflection around power, the paradoxes of social relations and the effect and incidence of economic and political fluctuations. At the same time, he handles a peculiar poetics of scale, giving meaning to the magnitude of an object and the banality of a gesture. His work questions the basic structures of contemporary culture and reflects on consumption, society and thought itself. His actions move between the subtle and the obvious, an invitation to distance ourselves from common experiences.
Wilfredo Prieto appropriates the world around him to shape ideas with radical, precarious and fragile gestures. Through his work he presents metaphors that are crystallized in everyday objects and recognizable materials of everyday life.
Selected Works
El payaso del payaso del payaso
2023
Clown's noses
5.5 x 5 x 1060 cm (2 5⁄32 x 1 31⁄32 x 417 5⁄16 inches)
Foot print
2004
Pen on paper
150 x 260 cm (59 1⁄16 x 102 3⁄8 inches)
Los bancos están comprando oro
2023
Acrylic on linen
200 x 300 cm (78 3⁄4 x 118 1⁄8 inches)
Tied up to the table leg
2011
Table, rope and helicopter
Whip and carrot
2019
Whip, carrot
Variable dimensionsEd. 3 + II AP
Speech
1999
Toilet roll made with newspaper
10 ⌀(3 15⁄16 ⌀⌀10 cm (⌀3 15⁄16 inches)
Avalancha
2003
Straight line made with spheres assembled from smallest to largest
Eclipse (Euro)
2010
Two coins
2.5 x 3.3 cm (31⁄32 x 1 5⁄16 inches)Ed. 3
Miren el tamaño de este mango (Look at the size of this mango)
2011
Mango, blackberry and rubber band
Flowers with Chanel No5
2011
Plant, perfume
Pantalones rotos (Torn Jeans)
2012
Horses and a pair of Levi’s jeans
Hoja verde
2018
Leaf, acrylic paint
40 x 25 x 10 cm (15 3⁄4 x 9 27⁄32 x 3 15⁄16 inches)Ed. 3
Amor
2019
Papaya seed and porexpan
1 x 0.5 cm (3⁄8 x 3⁄16 inches)Ed. 6
Monument
2008-2012
Concrete mixer truck, cement
The round ball comes in a square box
2011
Ball, box
34 x 25 x 25 cm (13 3⁄8 x 9 27⁄32 x 9 27⁄32 inches)
El sonido del brillo cuando encandece
2023
Collage of silver, zircon, pearls, labels, needles and piano key
35.5 x 35.5 x 7 cm (13 31⁄32 x 13 31⁄32 x 2 3⁄4 inches)
Una aguja en un pajar (Needle in a haystack)
2012
Needle, starw
Untitled (white library)
2004
White books, shelve, tables and chairs
Magia
2002
Metal, rubber, plastic
100 x 320 x 60 cm (39 3⁄8 x 125 31⁄32 x 23 5⁄8 inches)
Papas piedras
2017
Potatoes, stones
Cien vueltas a su jardín
2020
Acrylic on canvas
29.7 x 42 cm (11 11⁄16 x 16 17⁄32 inches)
Los chefs y el microondas
2020
Acrylic on canvas
29.7 x 42 cm (11 11⁄16 x 16 17⁄32 inches)
Matriuska
2004
Pencil on paper
100 x 70 cm (39 3⁄8 x 27 9⁄16 inches)
Installation
Venice Biennale, Cuban Pavilion, 2024
Photography: Nicola Gnesi
Balancing the Curve, 2012
HangarBicocca, Milan
VIII Havana Biennial, 2003
Wilfredo Lam Centre of Contemporary Art, Havana
The View of the Garden of Helene Hollandt, 2014
Kunstverein Braunschweig
Primer acto: Inauguración, 2012
Museo Tamayo, Mexico City,
Amarrado a la pata de la mesa (Tied up to the table leg), 2011
CAM2 - Centro de Arte 2 de Mayo, Madrid
52 Venice Biennale, 2007
Italo-Latinamerican Pavilion, Venice
Chiudere un occhio, 2019
Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples
Speaking Badly about Stones, 2014
S.M.A.K., Ghent
No se puede hacer una revolución con guantes de seda, 2016
Kurimanzutto, Mexico City
Composicions, 2016
Latitudes, Barcelona gGallery Weekend, Barcelona
Thessaloniki Biennial, 2009
Thessaloniki
Ping Pong Grid, 2015
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana
Ping Pong Grid, 2015
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana
Mute, CLUBS Art a la pista, Barcelona, 2021
Barcelona
System Error, 2015
MACZUL - Museo de Arte Contemporaneo del Zulia, Maracaibo
Itinerarios XXI, 2015
Fundación Botín, Santander
Beso, 2015
ArtLine Art Prize, Milan
A Museum That is Not, 2011
Times Museum, Guangzhou
Left/Right, 2011
MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo
Landscape with the fall of Icarus, 2011
Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon
Amarrado a la pata de la mesa (Tied up to the table leg), 2011
CAM2 - Centro de Arte 2 de Mayo, Madrid
I'm Not Here. An Exhibition Without Francis Alÿs, 2010
De Appel Boys’ School, Amsterdam
That Was Then…This is Now, 2008
PS1 MoMA, New York
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Exhibitions
Enlaire
L’Antiga FarineraJun 22 - Aug 31, 2024
C-66, 304, 17121 La Bisbal d'Empordà, Girona
Hours:
June and July: Thursday to Sunday, 5 to 9 p.m.
August: Tuesday to Sunday, 5 to 9 p.m.
Parar la fresca
FontetaJun 18 - Aug 3, 2021
We’re delighted to present a joint project by Bombon, Galeria Joan Prats and NoguerasBlanchard in Fonteta, a small village in the Empordà region from June to September.
The exhibition, conceived in two chapters (the first opening June 18th and the second August 7th) brings together artists from three different generations. The proposal begins with a concept from the Empordà Parar la fresca (to take in fresh air) described by Josep Pla in the book Las Horas (The Hours), 1953.
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Thank you, gracias
MadridJan 20 - Mar 10, 2018
Thank you, gracias allows for a deeper undertsanding of the intertextual nature that underlies Schlesinger and Prieto’s Works as it forces them to live together under very particular conditions, favoring the emergence of connections between elements that wouldn’t necesarily have them.
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WATCHDOG-LAPDOG-PLAYDOG
BarcelonaApr 2 - May 7, 2016
“The press is a watchdog. Not a lapdog. A watchdog. Now, a watchdog can’t be right all the time. He doesn’t bark only when he sees or smells something that’s dangerous. A good watchdog barks at things that are suspicious.” -Dan Rather (American journalist and a former anchor for CBS Evening News)
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A coffee made by Di
MadridFeb 2 - Mar 20, 2013
Internationally recognized for his installations, objects, and interventions Prieto has developed an extensive body of works on paper that runs parallel to his larger projects.
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Negro, mate, seco
BarcelonaNov 25 - Jan 22, 2011
Prieto recreates a symbolic landscape but at the same time, the viewer is in the middle of a workplace environment, between the leftovers of a past action and the allusion to a future one.
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s/t (alfombra roja)
BarcelonaOct 4 - Nov 24, 2007
NoguerasBlanchard presents Wilfredo Prieto´s second solo exhibition in the gallery. Prieto´s installation s/t (alfombra roja) is comprised of a red carpet laid out in a straight line, which runs down the length of gallery.
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White library
BarcelonaDec 27 - Feb 26, 2005
For his first project made out of Cuba, Prieto has transformed the gallery into a library, with about 6000 books in different formats and sizes, where the complete abscence of the written word aims to explore issues of deprivation and censorship and question the authority of knowledge over perception.
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