c. 1920-1950
A Picture of Good Health
Felipe Jesús ConsalvosAmerican (born Cuba), 1891 - 1957/58
Consalvos emigrated from Cuba to Miami around 1920 and later moved to Brooklyn and Philadelphia. Working as a cigar wrapper, at one time in a Schmidt cigar factory in New York, he obtained books and stamps that he cut up and incorporated into collages. He applied the materials not only to two-dimensional works, but also to furniture, musical instruments, and other useful objects. Magazine illustrations, maps, postcards, Mexican woodcuts, currency, etc., combine in pieces that are at first glance vibrant, immediate, and reliant on repetition, but are actually more subtle and occasionally include strange political overtones, erotic twists, or a poetic embedding of words and language.
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