ID: 700008385 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008385	Record Type: Movable Work
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Transportable City (watercolor (painting); Los Carpinteros (Cuban draftsmen, painters, and craftsmen, f...; 1999; Whitney Museum of American Art (New York City, New York stat...; 2007.182)

Note: Drawing for a sculptural installation called "Transportable City." This large watercolor and ink drawing depicts the ten buildings that comprise the ongoing project, created by the Havana-based artist collective Los Carpinteros (The Carpenters). Transportable City is a sculptural installation of ten tent-like structures representing the institutions that the group considers necessary for contemporary society to function, including a factory, a church, a university, a prison, a capitol building, a lighthouse, a military outpost, and an apartment building. “We wanted to create the basic shell of what a city should be,” explained member Dagoberto Rodríguez about the structures, which have been erected in museums and at art fairs around the world. Fashioned from nylon fabric and aluminum tubing, the tents stand between six and fifteen feet high, and can be dismantled quickly, demonstrating a portability that reflects the transitory nature of contemporary urban life. As nomadic, highly flexible structures, they invoke a utopian aspiration for widespread public access to the most essential urban institutions, as well as a more apocalyptic vision of a city continually displaced by war, famine, or natural disaster.

Titles:

Transportable City (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

watercolor (painting) [300078925] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, paintings (visual works), <paintings by material or technique>)

Classifications:

paintings (preferred)

Creation Date: 1999

Creator Display:

Los Carpinteros (Cuban draftsmen, painters, and craftsmen, founded ca. 1990) [preferred,VP]

designers The Carpenters (Cuban draftsmen, painters, and craftsmen, founded ca. 1990) [500127934]

Locations:

Current: Whitney Museum of American Art (New York City, New York state, United States) [500303638] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 2007.182

Credit Line: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Gift of Dean Valentine and Amy Adelson

Display Materials: Watercolor and wax crayon on paper

	watercolor (paint) [300015045]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>, water-base paint)

	ink [300015012]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>)

	paper (fiber product) [300014109]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>)

	wax crayons [300167812]
	.......(Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Tools and Equipment (hierarchy name), equipment, <equipment by process>, image-making equipment, <equipment for drafting| drawing| and writing>, <drafting| drawing and writing equipment by specific type>, crayons (drawing material))

Dimensions: Sheet (Irregular, Sight): 51 × 74 in. (129.5 × 188 cm)

Cultures:

Cuban (preferred)

General Subject:

architecture (preferred,description)

Specific Subjects:

	buildings (structures) [300004792]
	.....(Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Single Built Works (hierarchy name), single built works (built environment), <single built works by general type>, structures (single built works)) (AAT)

Copyright: © artist or artist’s estate

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Transportable City	........ [VP]
	........ Whitney Museum [online] (2009-) accessed 10 April 2014

Subject: ....... [VP]

....................... Whitney Museum [online] (2009-) accessed 10 April 2014, http://collection.whitney.org/object/33256

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Whitney Museum [online] (2009-) accessed 27 February 2018, http://collection.whitney.org/object/33256