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| Kasper Kovitz: Parime - oxblood paintings and jamon iberico sculptures
Kasper Kovitz @ ARCO Madrid
"There is a color that Basques used to paint their houses with, rouge Basque, that originally was made out of cattle blood. When I started working on images of the Conquistadores coming on land and encountering Natives, I decided to use ‘exotic fruit juice mix’ for the Natives. I also made ‘Carnalitos’, two sculptures, of Miguel de Unamuno and Sabino Arana carved of legs of jamon iberico. These two Basque characters have a significant role in the Basque independence struggle but stood on two opposing political sides: moderation and nationalism. Carnalitos is an expression in Spanish for close friends as in “of the same blood”." Kasper Kovitz, 2010 |