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The Enchanted Island and Other Recent Works

March 8, 2006- April 15, 2006

Reception: March 10, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Carlos Betancourt

Remy Toledo Gallery

529 W 20th St

THE ENCHANTED ISLAND, a temporal installation, consists of thousands of paper cup sand castles arranged in a grid pattern in the gallery's rooms. The installation eventually will be dissolved by the artist. Mr. Betancourt presented a related installation/photo performance work during Art Basel Miami Beach, 2004. Images from this photo performance and other recent photographic artworks by the artist will also be exhibited.

The Enchanted Island, a temporal installation, explores the artist's attraction to the momentary, to that which exists and may be gone, alluding to our own physical existence and search for order. The artist's work also reflects on the relationship that links man and nature in a communion that can not be separated. His color compositions � intuitive and spontaneous, simultaneously humorous and researched � are loaded with multiple layers of meaning that may be wrapped in ritualistic and primordial mysteries assembled in a magical marriage between the past and the contemporary.

About the Artist

Mr. Betancourt's artwork is part of public collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno in the Canary Islands, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, Museo de Arte Moderno in Santo Domingo, San Antonio Museum of Art in Texas, Museum of Latin American Art in California, Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, Lowe Art Museum and the Bass Museum of Art in Florida.

Mr. Betancourt's artwork has been included in multiple solo and group exhibits as well as art fairs such as Art Basel and Arco. He is the recipient of numerous awards and grants, such as the Florida Department of State Millennium Cultural Recognition Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Grant, and the Miami Beach Arts Council Grant. Recently, he has been awarded commissions to create monumental artworks for the Miami-Dade Art in Public Places Trust and for the Puerto Rico Art in Public Places Program.

Carlos Betancourt was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He currently lives in Miami Beach and the Caribbean.

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