Dinamic Duo!

Guerra de la Paz is the combined name of an American artist duo.  Alain Guerra and Neraldo de la Paz were dorn in Cuba in 1968 and 1955 respectively.  They currently live in Miami, FL where they create their one-of-a-kind art. 

Alain Guerra was born in Havana, Cuba.  He went to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL and the Center for the Expressive Arts in Miami, FL.  Neraldo de la Paz was born in Mantanzas, Cuba.  He went to Northern Illinois University in De Kalb, IL and graduated in 1978 with a BFA in Drawing/Painting.  Guerra and de la Paz have been working with each other since 1996, creating crazy sculptures out of recycled objects.  They create all of their work with a base of some kind of universal message. They use old clothing to create their work, and their sculptures symbolize political conflicts and consumerism issues as well as some symbols of faith.  They work very closely with the Pepe business of Little Haiti, which allows them access to a variety of clothes.  They believe that they are "relics that once helped define an individual's personality."  They view their practice as a kind of “archeology.”  A lot of their sculptures involve the feet and legs of people which symbolize working together as a community.  One sculpture in particular titled Nine shows nine legs holding up a heap of clothing.  They say that it is testimony to the strength and value of community.

Guerra and de la Paz do group presentations of their work as well as individual presentations all over the United States, with a couple in the UK, one in Turkey and one in Switzerland.