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House-Sculpture Arouses Curiosity in Havana Biennial-2015

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A work built at the bottom of Wifredo Lam Contemporary Art Center sowed doubt among the participants at the XII Biennial of Havana: is it a house or a sculpture?

For its creator, the Cuban artist known as ‘Candelario’, is neither one nor the other: it simply comes to art. Candelario, whose real name is Carlos Ariel Luaces, spoke with Prensa Latina about E14LAM, a work inspired by a model of pre-fabricated apartments that proliferated in Cuba 40 years ago.