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Carlos Almonte
born Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic 1960
Vale John
2010
screenprint on paper
Almonte's muscular campesino (farmworker) stands in the middle of a New York City street and affirms his homeland culture in a new context. Behind him is a humble Caribbean-styled dwelling transplanted to an urban Latino neighborhood. He holds a machete, a ubiquitous agricultural tool in the Dominican Republic. A plantain, a staple Caribbean crop, appears at his feet.
Museum purchase made possible by the R. P. Whitty Company and the Cooperating Committee on Architecture, 2013.28.3.1 |