Alexandre Arrechea
Cuban artist (born 1970)
Alexandre Arrechea (born 1970, Cuba) is a Cuban visual artist. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art New York (MoMA), New York, the Museum of Latin America Art (MOLAA), California, the Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida, the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, among others. Arrechea's work explores the themes of power and its associated networks of hierarchy, surveillance, control, prohibition, and subjugation. He lives between Madrid and Miami.
Early life and education
Arrechea was born in Trinidad, Cuba in 1970. Arrechea graduated from the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) of Havana in 1994.
Work
For twelve years, he was a member of the art collective Los Carpinteros, until he left the group in July 2003 to continue his career as a solo artist. His public art invites active spectator participation, which enhances the viewer's engagement and reflection. The work arises out of human actions and reactions in the face of contemporary versions of the worldview already described by Jeremy Bentham in the 18th century. The eye of power watches everything and everyone, and everyone watches everyone else and themselves.
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