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Pantalones Rotos by Wilfredo Prieto, Conceived by Wilfred…

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Conceived by Wilfredo Prieto as his project for the Composiciones programme, “Pantalones rotos” (Torn Jeans), 2012, is realised by the horses of the Guàrdia Urbana de Barcelona. The action-sculpture takes place at the Mounted Unit’s stables, a historic venue next to the city zoo that is not normally open to the public and whose exercise paddock is overlooked by the twin towers of the Torre Mapfre and Hotel Arts. In his work Prieto makes reference to an image which appears on the tag of every pair of classic Levi’s denim jeans—two horses trying in vain to break a pair of the reinforced trousers. Since their invention in 1873, Levi Strauss & Co.’s famous copper-riveted denim has become synonymous with the working people of the western United States—cowboys, lumberjacks, and railroad workers. Yet in “Pantalones rotos”, this symbol of the American frontier myth has been already torn apart with bathos as two harnessed horses each drag one half of a torn pair of jeans. – Latitudes Wilfredo Prieto (Sancti Spiritus, Cuba, 1978) pursued art studies at the Instituto Superior de Arte (Higher Institute of Fine Arts ISA), graduating in 2002. Prieto’s recent solo exhibitions include: ‘Ping Pong Grid’, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba (2015); ‘Speaking Badly about Stones’, S.M.A.K, Ghent, Belgium (2014); ‘Incidences from the Private to the Public and from the Public to the Private’, NMAC Foundation, Cádiz, Spain (2013); ‘Leaving Something to Chance’, Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, México (2012); ‘Balancing the curve’, Hangar Bicocca, Milan, Italy (2012); ‘Amarrado a la pata de la mesa’, Centro de Arte 2 de Mayo (CA2M), Móstoles, Madrid (2011); and has participated in group shows such as ‘Under the same sun: Art from Latin America Today’, Guggenheim Museum, Nueva York (2014); ‘Coup d’éclat, En résonance’, Biennale d