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The USF Contemporary Art Museum will be presenting an exhibition by Carlos Garaicao, beginning August 23, 2010 and runs through December 11, 2010. Garaicao is Havana-born and is internationally known for his contemporary study of the city.

The exhibit: Carlos Garaicoa: La emnienda que hay en mi (Making Amends) will be visually stimulating and will exemplify his commitment towards a moral obligation with society with which he lives. The USF exhibition will include one of his most recognized works, ‘The Crown Jewels, which is a series of 8 cast silver models depicting international places of military authority, surveillance and repression including Cuba’s Villa Marista, Guantanamo Naval Base, the East German Stasi, the KGB and the Pentagon. He has exhibited extensively at venues around the world and his works can be found in many prestigious museum collections such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim, the Tate and the El Museio Nacional de Arte Centro de arte Reina Sofia in Madrid.

If you booked a Tampa hotel and be in town August 27th, make plans to visit the USF campus where Garaicoa will not only participate in a colloquium, some of his most celebrated artworks will be shown as well. If you won’t be in Tampa on the 27th, still check out his exhibit and witness some of today’s most important contemporary artwork of this new 21st century culture.

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