Carlos Alfonzo: Late Paintings

A companion to ICA Miami’s exhibition “Carlos Alfonzo: Late Paintings,” this publication offers an expansive view of Alfonzo’s body of work. The first part of the book provides the most comprehensive gathering of Alfonzo’s last works—a body of paintings that straddles between a response to the AIDS crisis and Alfonzo’s deep exploration of art historical tropes. The second part of the book brings together works from the rest of Alfonzo’s career, from drawings and sculptures he produced in Havana in the late 1970s to the dynamic compositions that brought him international recognition in the 1980s. The first monograph dedicated to the artist in over twenty-five years, this publication fills an art historical gap with newly commissioned scholarship, materials drawn from archives, and a comprehensive selection of paintings.