2003
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Alexis Leyva Machado (called Kcho)Cuban, born 1970
An imaginative sculptor and superb draftsman, Alexis Leyva Machado, known as Kcho, is one of Cuba's most successful young artists. This large aquatint is one of five prints in the portfolio La Jungla, which are studies of a group of twelve-foot sculptures made of cane that Machado created for a junglelike installation in 2002. La Jungla is also the title of a work by the famous Cuban artist Wilfredo Lam (1902-1982), while the spiraling tower forms refer to Vladimir Tatlin's (Russian, 1885-1953) unrealized Monument to the Third International of 1920-the combination serving as Kcho's acknowledgment of his dual Communist and Cuban artistic heritage.
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