The sculpture is the first architectural use of an ecological concrete called LC3
has transcended its role as a public art installationLucas Cantu and Carlos Matos, the duo behind the Mexico City-based art and architecture studio Tezontle, were the first foreign invitees to arrive in Havana for this year’s Biennial. They were also the last to leave. In fact, their large-scaleCantu and Matos had originally designedas a site-specific work that would sit in between the ocean and the Malécon, a public promenade along the waterfront.
Adaptability, they will tell you, is fundamental for executing a project of this scale in Cuba. Limited access to supplies, for example, led Cantu and Matos to source the unlikely. ‘We used probably ten cubic metres of residue material, cast inside the base, from crumbled houses,’ Matos says. ‘It’s a nice poetic gesture, but it was also a necessary one.
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