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Roberto Fabelo
Cuba, b. 1951

Roberto Fabelo Cuba, b. 1951

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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Roberto Fabelo, Delicatesen, 2003

Roberto Fabelo Cuba, b. 1951

Delicatesen, 2003
Etching on Metal Cauldron
8 x 8 x 7 inches
20.3 x 20.3 x 17.8 cm
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Fabelo's Delicatessen seizes a battered cauldron lid—rimmed with rust blooms and bolted by metal straps like a forensic exhibit—as substrate for a scraped-down visage, incised amid the oxide crust. The...
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Fabelo's Delicatessen seizes a battered cauldron lid—rimmed with rust blooms and bolted by metal straps like a forensic exhibit—as substrate for a scraped-down visage, incised amid the oxide crust. The profile, hollow-cheeked and lopsided with a distended ear and wispy strands unraveling into scratches, surfaces like residue scraped from a pot's underbelly, aligning with his grotesque fusions where anatomy dissolves into insectoid remnants, as in his beetle-human amalgams. 


The title's deli-slick sarcasm grates against the lid's functional rot, unpacking meat-as-merchandise within Cuba's post-collapse economy of makeshift and dearth. Parallel to Cafedral (2003), with its teetering cookware spires, this piece repurposes kitchen wreckage as a phantom trap, stressing ingestion's castoffs and adaptive deformity through unvarnished material fact.

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Roberto Fabelo Studio 
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