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Augusta Stylianou Gallery 
Yoan Capote is a Cuban sculptor who was born in 1977 in Pinar del Río. He received the UNESCO prize during the 7th Havana Biennial with the artists' collective DUPP (Desde Una Pragmática Pedagógica). Biography Yoan Capote lives and works in Havana where he studied arts at the Superior Institute of Art from 1991 to 1995. Even if he first specialized in painting, he finally decided to improve his sculpture skills, considering the latter as a way of developing three-dimensional and multi-sensory possibilities. Yoan Capote is already recognized all over the world - especially in the Cuban art circles - as a promising artist. His work, known to be “solid”, “irreverent”, “provocative”, and “non-conformist” – according to some art critics – deals principally with interactions between individuals and objects. Yoan Capote follows the line of internationally-known artists Gabriel Orozco or Daniel Hertz, working on sculptures and 3D installations such as Open Mind. Open Mind is a labyrinth based on the drawing of the human brain where people can walk. People become metaphors for neurons transmitting information as they walk around the maze. This work inspires reflection on the interrelation among persons, who attempt to coexist with each other. Yoan Capote often merges human organs with inanimate objects, rearranges the human body and reinvents the purpose of everyday life: the sculpture Nostalgia, which features an ordinary suitcase unzipped to reveal a wall of bricks, can be seen as a metaphor for nomadism and its limits, the wall of bricks standing for our own impediments we all carry with us wherever we go. Currently, Yoan Capote designs everyday life furniture, using materials who usually belong to traditional art. Exhibitions Collectives exhibitions * 2009 : 10th edition of Havana Biennial, Havana Individual exhibitions * 2008 : Psicomorfosis - Galería Habana, Havana References [1] http://www.havana-cultura.com/ Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/ ", Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License ==--==--==
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