Large Hand-Carved Mask, (from Precious 'Baria' wood found in Nuevo Mundo, Cuba):
Item Number: 111
Time Left: CLOSED
Value: $2,100
Online Close: Feb 15, 2014 4:00 PM EST
Bid History: 0 bids - Item Sold!
Description
This stately and handsome piece draws immediate attention with its beautiful smooth skin-like curves, its warmth, detail and presence. Purchase her male counterpart, and take them home together- these pieces shouldn’t be apart - and will look gorgeous hanging side by side in your home. The wood used in this peice came directly from the site of BACCA’s current project, in a village called Nuevo Mundo (New World) Cuba and was carved by master mood-carver, and Co Director of BACCA, Felix Torres Chaviano.
Dimensions: 21.5 in. x 9 in.
Special Instructions
Bio: Felix Torres Chaviano was born in Havana, Cuba in 1970. He began woodcarving at the age of 12 when he studied with a private teacher, and has since continued his practice as a self-taught artist. His works include masks, human and fantastical figures, furniture, and life-size animal busts. He currently teaches adult and youth woodcarving classes at The Crucible art school in Oakland, California. In Havana, Felix worked with theater collective, Giganteria Ambulante, as well as Brigada Verde, and published his poetry in the magazine Mantis y La Isla Infinita. Felix’s art is inspired by Afro-Cuban religion and various autonomous aboriginal cultures. Much of the wood used in his sculptures is exotic tropical hardwood from fallen trees in the Sierra Maestra Mountain Range of Cuba. Felix has exhibited his work in New York, Oakland, and Havana.