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  • Essays
  • CARLOS BETANCOURT: ESCRITO SOBE SU PROPIA PIEL
  • CARIBE
  • Carlos Betancourt Recent Phtographic Work
  • CONTEXT From Miami to Santo Domingo
  • Robert Farris Thompson on the recent art of Carlos Betancour
  • DAYTONA EXHBIIT
  • THE PELICAN PASSAGE interview
  • Testigo de la Belleza
  • End of year
  • BEYOND PINK FLAMINGOS
  • Synopsis Monogram Imperfect Utopia
  • SKira Rizzoli Imperfect Utopia INTRODUCTION
  • Remarks on Style
  • Memory as Truth
  • Q and A
  • Vesica Piscis
  • Imperfect Utopia Monogram Skira Rizzoli Acqnoldegment p
  • Huffington post
  • Teaching Demo on Betancourt Exhibit
  • Re-Collections 2
  • CARLOS BETANCOURT by Johnny Tsokos
  • Interview
  • Ornament and Obsession
  • Shopping Car Atomic Venice Projects
  • ANTROPOLOGY ATOMIC
  • The Art as an offering the body as an Altar
  • CARLOS BETANCOURT and LOUBOUTINS TEXT
  • The slick territorial pissings of Carlos Betancourt
  • The Eye in the Sky
  • Of A Wondering Spirit
  • Canaria 7
  • Timba the Medicine
  • After Laughter Comes Tears. Future Eternal exhibit essay (20
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      After Laughter Comes Tears. Future Eternal exhibit essay (2019)

      Words by IIII, Books Bishop
      Words by IIII Published by Primary. Miami, FL. After Laughter Comes Tears. (Thank You: A.L. + C.G. + T.G. D.B. + R.R.) There is an energy that exudes from Carlos...
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      DAYTONA EXHBIIT (Dec 2017)

      Michele Meyers
      Photographer leaves imprint on Daytona State Michele Meyers In Motion Staff Writer “Please cut me off if I talk too much,” laughed Carlos Betancourt as he shared fond memories of...
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      THE PELICAN PASSAGE interview (2016)

      Claire Tancons
      Novemeber 11, 2016 CT: Your work is suffused by Latin American and Caribbean traditions yet Pelican Passage is your first work taking on the large-scale performance dimension of the processional...
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      Testigo de la Belleza (2016)

      LiLLIANA RAMOS COLLADO
      'We cry because [pictures] are beautiful… Some can be so beautiful that they ambush unsuspecting viewers, provoking floods of emotion. At one point, I even thought of calling this book...
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      End of year (2016)

      Claire Tancons
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      BEYOND PINK FLAMINGOS (2016)

      Erica Ando
      BEYOND PINK FLAMINGOS AND ART FAIRS: A BRIEF HISTORY By Erica Ando History in South Florida, the saying goes, starts when you get off the plane. So it might be...
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      SKira Rizzoli Imperfect Utopia INTRODUCTION (2015)

      Petra Mason
      Artist Carlos Betancourt not only demonstrates an intelligent and exuberant use of post-modern artistic language, but he is very valuable yeast in the culture of the Caribbean and his home...
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      Remarks on Style (2015)

      Robert Farris Thompson
      3 May 2015 New Haven I trace two tendencies in the recent artworks of Carlos Betancourt, overall coloration making a composition completely white or completely purple, and a tendency towards...
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      Memory as Truth (2015)

      RICHARD BLANCO
      Beauty is truth, truth beauty that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. Those are the closing lines from Ode on a Grecian Urn,...
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      Q and A (2015)

      Paul Laster
      PL: I initially saw your work in shows at Robert Miller Gallery in New York in the early 2000s. Tell me a little about your solo exhibit there. Few artists...
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      Imperfect Utopia Monogram Skira Rizzoli Acknowledgment page (2015)

      Skira Rizzoli
      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This book is dedicated to Alberto Latorre, mi gran amor. Thank you for sharing your insight, patience, and talents; collaborating with you is the most beautiful love. Gracias a...
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      Huffington post (2015)

      Maria Brito
      The Unchanged Reality of Carlos Betancourt December 21, 2015 Carlos Betancourt is one of those artists who I felt I had known all my life. Even though we truly connected...
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      Teaching Demo on Betancourt Exhibit (2015)

      Cheryl Hartup
      I Idea for consideration / Broad question How might you connect with your origins, using your body as the site for this encounter? II Problem In the aftermath of the...
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      Vesica Piscis (2015)

      Jochi Melero
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      Synopsis Monogram Imperfect Utopia (2015)

      Skira Rizzoli
      CARLOS BETANCOURT SYNOPSIS FOR THE BOOK IMPERFECT UTOPIA Mixed-media artist Carlos Betancourt and his influential studio, Imperfect Utopia, helped to launch the Miami art scene in the 1980’s. Betancourt’s oeuvreis...
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      Re-Collections 2 (2015)

      CHERYL HARTUP
      Carlos Betancourt: Re-Collections Rock, waterfall, and wind, and a figure crouching still--all these of one mind.1 Cheryl Hartup “Human beings and objects are indeed bound together in a collusion in...
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      CARLOS BETANCOURT (2014)

      Johnny Tsokos
      Observing Carlos’ art could be similar to stepping into them head first — I almost said heart first — where you find yrself thinking: “Am I dreaming these images or...
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      Interview (2014)

      JOHNNY TSOKOS
      INTERVIEW BELOW: Observing Carlos’ art could be similar to stepping into them head first — I almost said heart first — where you find yrself thinking: “Am I dreaming these...
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      Ornament and Obsession (2013)

      Mariangela Capuzzo
      Ornament and Obsession: The Fascinating World of Carlos Betancourt by Mariangela Capuzzo (Venice Projects exhibition catalog) Many contemporary artists use their own experiences as a platform to develop their artistic...
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      SHopping Car Atomic Venice Projects (2013)

      MArco Verengo
      SHOPPING CART ATOMIC By MARCO BERENGO (Venice Projects, gallery director) As soon as I saw Shopping Cart Atomic by Carlos Betancourt, a supermarket carriage overflowing with incongruous objects covered with...
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      ANTROPOLOGY ATOMIC (2012)

      Wesley Grison
      Anthropology Atomic: Carlos Betancourt by Wesley Grissom from arbus magazine For Carlos Betancourt, examining & experiencing culture is essential to stimulating creativity. Throughout his career, the artist's flamboyant...
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      The Art as an offering the body as an Altar (2009)

      Janet Batet
      Carlos Betancourt: The Art as an offering; the body as an altar By Janet Batet (Arte Al Dia essay) Carlos Betancourt’s oeuvre is an explosion of sensations: lush, radiant, eccentric,...
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      CARLOS BETANCOURT and LOUBOUTINS (2009)

      Matilda Anderson
      This story begins with a hot pink pair of Christian Louboutins so jaw dropping that my friend couldn’t help but call them “major” (major should be pronounced with a Posh...
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      The slick territorial pissings of Carlos Betancourt (2006)

      Pedro Velez
      The Slick Territorial Pissings of Carlos Betancourt Brazen bodies with black charcoal, ink, leaf, poetry, and otherwise ordinary earthly materials are a few of the tools Carlos Betancourt uses...
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      The Eye in the Sky (2006)

      ROBERT FARRIS THOMPSON
      The Eye of the Sky is Open: The Art of Carlos Betancourt. The Yoruba of Nigeria have an idiom for good weather: the eye of the sky is open. This...
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      Robert Farris Thompson on the recent art of Carlos Betancourt (2004)

      Start with his body. A recent self-presentation involves painting his face blue and his body warm red in “Apito y Cenizas with Letter to Alberto” [plate 1]. Blue glitter and...
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      Of A Wondering Spirit (2003-4)

      Antonio Zaya
      When I set out to make a selection of the most recent photographs of Carlos Betancourt to be exhibited in the Spinola Palace at Teguise (Lanzarote), which unexpectedly coincided with...
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      Canaria 7 (2003)

      Federico Utrera
      ARTE CONTEMPORANEO PRIVADO Federico Utrera Cada día que pasa queda más en evidencia que las múltiples y variadas maneras de exponer arte se reducen en esencia a dos: museos, centros...
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      CONTEXT From Miami to Santo Domingo (2002-03)

      Antonio Zaya
      I Led by the Dominican artist Charo Oquet, in October, several of her Miami colleagues and she herself engaged in a day-long dialog with the colonial city of Santo Domingo,...
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      Carlos Betancourt Recent Photographic Work (2002)

      Denise M. Gerson
      CARLOS BETANCOURT: RECENT PHOTOGRAPHIC WORK by Denise M. Gerson Associate Director of Curaturial Affairs, Lowe Art Museum University of Miami 'A photograph is a secret about a secret....
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      CARLOS BETANCOURT: ESCRITO SOBRE SU PROPIA PIEL (2002)

      Antonio Zaya
      Si el cuerpo se identifica (1) cada vez mas como el ultimo lugar posible a partir del cual el individuo de nuestro tiempo puede fijar una identidad significante, y ello...
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      Timba the Medicine (2001-02)

      ROBERT FERRIS THOMPSON
      Timba the Medicine: The Art of Carlos Betancourt: by Robert Farris Thompson Carlos Betancourt comes from the sea of the Creoles, the Caribbean, cradle of mambo, timba, and merengue, cradle...
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