Alexandre Arrechea, a native of Trinidad, Cuba left the artist collective Los Carpinteros to pursue creating his multimedia art under his own name. His recent works deal with contemporary social and economic issues like the stock market and migrants in Latin America. Arrechea's practice includes installation, painting, and the use of what he considers are objects with “elements of truth”; this last category has included found remnants of places, like debris, fragments of walls, and measuring tape.
About Alexandre Arrechea:
Cuban artist Alexandre Arrechea, co-founder of the artists collective “Los Carpinteros,” interdisciplinary work reveals a profound interest in the exploration of both public and domestic spaces. His earlier works explore common themes of surveillance in contemporary society, the loss of privacy, and sources of power, though more recent works deal with contemporary social and economic issues like the stock market and migrants in Latin America. His experiential installations like The Garden of Mistrust (2003-5) and Perpetual Free Entrance (2006) in particular deal with issues of accessibility and the qualities of public and private space. His practice includes installation, painting, and the use of what he considers are objects with “elements of truth;” this last category has included found remnants of places, like debris, fragments of walls, and measuring tape. The artists work can be found in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum in New York, CAB Burgos, Spain, Museum of Latin American Art, California, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, Daros Collection, Switzerland and the Museo Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Reina Sofia in Madrid.