My Cage
KCHO: Todo Cambia, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, October 5, 1997-February 8, 1998, unnumbered.
Kcho. The Infinite Column, Palacio de Cristal, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, February 8-May 7, 2000, unnumbered.
Could you fit inside this sculpture? Made of traditional materials, My Cage recalls crafts—especially fish traps—but on a massive scale. My Cage’s title and size suggest the sculpture may be a metaphor for captivity. As the artist is Cuban, it may also represent the nation’s citizens’ confinement within their own country (until recently, Cubans couldn’t travel abroad without permission).
Kcho (KAH-cho) is one of the most important contemporary Cuban artists. Many of his works, including My Cage, reference waves and water. The artist acknowledges that life in Cuba impacts his art, stating, "Everything that defines Cuba came from the sea."
Purchased from Sotheby's, New York, Latin American Art, May 28, 2009, lot 179 by Aldo Rubino, 2009;
His gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2016.
Alma Ruiz, “Todo Cambia,” in Kcho: Todo Cambia, exh. cat. (Los Angeles: The Museum of Contemporary Art, 1997): unpaginated.
Kcho. La Columna Infinita, exh. cat. (Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, 2000): 110.
