CARLOS ZAMORA: CART

2019 KRANZBERG EXHIBITION SERIES

DATES

July 25 - December 22, 2019

CURATOR

Dana Turkovic, Curator

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As part of our commitment to supporting and showcasing local artists, Laumeier Sculpture Park will present Carlos Zamora: cART. This project will commission Cuban-born, St. Louis-based illustrator and graphic designer Carlos Zamora to retrofit the Park’s golf carts. Golf carts play a pivotal role in how Laumeier staff crisscrosses the campus, shuttling colleagues and checking on sculptures, and interacting with visitors. Zamora will create three unique artworks by enveloping the carts in printed vinyl wraps, sculptural frameworks, and ornamentation inspired by a variety of sources such as Cuban car culture, nursery rhymes, history and politics. The production of embellished “drivable” sculptures draws attention to the history of kinetic art, from early modernism to the present and its activation by the viewer, context and environment. The golf cart takes these ideas one step further, whereby the object is decorative, mobile, and functional.

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Carlos Zamora (b. 1978, Havana, Cuba) graduated from Havana Design Institute, Cuba in 2000. In 2004 he immigrated to Quito, Ecuador and arrived in the United States in 2006. His early professional endeavors in Cuba included The Office of Historical Restoration for Old Havana, Alicia Alonso’s National Ballet of Cuba, Casa de las Américas, Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba and cigar company Habanos S.A. Between 2000 and 2004 he served as Art Director for magazines including Opus Habana, Gaceta de Cuba, Anales del Caribe, Cuba en el Ballet and Conjunto. Magazines, book covers and posters resumed his professional life in Havana. Zamora has worked as a designer at Fleishman Hillard, St. Louis and Kiku Obata & Company, St. Louis and is now Creative Director at Express Scripts in St. Louis. He is a former President of AIGA, St. Louis Chapter and serves as a brand chair on several boards. His illustrations have been published by the New York Observer, The Boston Globe, Ad Age, American Lawyer, The Wall Street Journal, Alive, and St. Louis Magazine. His work has been included in American Illustration 34, 3x3 Illustration Annual No.12, and Society of Illustrators 58th. Communication Arts featured his work in the Typography and Illustration Annuals 2017.