Felipe Jesus Consalvos
Born in Havana in , Felipe Jesus Consalvos emigrated to Miami in and made a living rolling cigars until his death in the s. His life would have been forgotten, were it not for a garage sale in which his oeuvre was discovered.
The art of cigar band découpage was known at the time Consalvos commenced his hobby, yet the many hundreds of collaged elements - from photographs, books, musical instruments, even household furniture - pointed to a committed creative activist, as astonishing as he was eccentric.
As an immigrant, Consalvos relished the tropes of American jargon, taking pot-shots at the great and the good. Yet this autodidactic opus also reflected the dadaist spirit of the times, and sits easily alongside works by Kurt Schwitters, Joseph Cornell and Hannah Höch.
Consalvos’ inclusion in museum collections like the Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia) and Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago), positions him at the vanguard of 20th-century image-making.
The gallery has a unique selection of works by Felipe Jesus Consalvos, his first solo exhibition in the UK. To view the collection, please click here.
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Installation
Oct 21 — Nov 19,
Featuring work by: Jess,Felipe Jesus Consalvos,Anthony Campuzano,Christina Ramberg,Martín Ramírez,Luis Romero,Jim Nutt,James Castle,P.M. Wentworth
Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, Harvard University
Curated by graduates of the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Brendan Greaves ('00) and William Pym ('02) with their colleague Jina Valentine, Fabulous Histories: Indigenous Anomalies in American Art juxtaposes nine artists in potent trios which illuminate the profoundly enmeshed conceptual and formal concerns of prominent artists both self-taught and trained. In addition to marquee names like Jim Nutt and Martin Ramirez, the exhibition takes into account "dark horse" artists who are infrequently shown such as P.M. Wentworth, whose body of work is extremely limited, as well as the recently rediscovered Felipe Jesus Consalvos and emerging artist Anthony Campuzano. The influence of self-taught work on contemporary mainstream art practice has never been more evident. Authenticity and legitimacy are thorny issues in today's young, style-conscious art world. Fabulous Histories offers the opportunity to view masterworks by important ar
Tabaquero collage
Unknown in his lifetime, little is still know about this pioneering artist – so little, that suspicions of a hoax inevitably emerged over the decades. The aforementioned great-niece disappeared, and was reported dead; no further relatives or friends have ever been located. Brendan Greaves, a researcher into Consalvos’ work and curator at the time of the acquisition of the Consalvo works at the Philidelphia gallery who now exclusively represent Consalvos’ estate, brushes the conspiracies aside; but despite his extensive attempts to trace the artist, he admits being no closer to proof on paper of the artist’s identity.
Whoever Felipe Jesus Consalvos truly was, he captured the collective, D.I.Y quality at the core of collage, the most democratic and ideological art medium: Consalvos was a talisman of recycling and rehashing the changing world around him to make a revolving documentary that felt his own.
Cuban-American, 20th century.
Born , near Havana, Cuba; died c. , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Born outside Havana in , this recently rediscovered Cuban-American artist emigrated to Miami around , eventually settling in New York and finally Philadelphia, where he died sometime in the ’s or ’s. A self-appointed “artist, healer, and man”, Consalvos worked for much of his life as a cigar roller, and he extrapolated the vernacular tradition of cigar band collage to a highly sophisticated, inimitable practice.
His obsessive body of work—approximately surviving collages on paper, found photographs, musical instruments, furniture, and other unexpected surfaces, all discovered in at a West Philadelphia garage sale—merges the biting socio-political satire and absurdist impulses of Dadaists like Kurt Schwitters and Max Ernst with the abstruse mysticism of Joseph Cornell and Jess. Consalvos likewise parallels and prefigures certain contemporaneous developments in Surrealist, Futurist, and Pop collage, design, and even poetry.
- Courtesy of Fleisher/Ollman Gallery
Selected Solo Exhibitions
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