Wallscape. Pavel Acosta. Intervention in the permanent collection of El Museo del Barrio. La Bienal: This is where we Jump. El Museo del Barrio, 2013 Wallscape has an antecedent in the series Stolen Paint that I started in 2008 in Havana, Cuba. Back then, I decided to incorporate in my artistic process the way Cubans survive the daily hardships, by stealing and re-selling the state’s property in the black market. In that series, I "stole" paint ships that were already aging and falling apart from walls, doors, chairs, cars, etc. all around Havana, and used them in collages on canvas and paper. Once living in the States my Stolen series began to relate to other concepts and contexts. When Rocío Aranda Alvarado and Raúl Zamudio invited me to participate in the biennial of El Museo del Barrio, I had in mind I wanted to reproduce the piece that was in the wall in front of the one I was assigned. I also knew I would use the old paint I found on the wall, but I had no exact idea of how the result was going to look like. The piece in the front wall ended up being very colorful, carnavalesque, and baroque (Goat Song #5: Tumult on George Washington Avenue, 1988, by Manuel Macarulla,) and the paint I found in my wall was mostly monochromatic, with different tones of white. #Wallscape #elmuseo #gallery #chelseaartgallery #performance #bernicesteinbaumgallery #fineart #art #collage #permanentcollection #latinamericanart #artcolletion #instalation #collage #fineart #curator #arte #cuba #caribbeanartist #artist #contemporarypainting #modernpainting #contemporaryart #artstudio #alternative #colectionart (at El Museo del Barrio)
