‘gringo come home’, 2007 and ‘madrastra naturaleza’ series, 2006
‘hang it all’ still life (hommage a ray + charles eames’ design) – tool to dry fruit, 2006
‘verde refresco o cola verde’, 2003 and ‘amorfo’, 2004
‘horno par calentar gatos’, 2004 and ‘apurador’, 2004
gabriel sierra
these objects for quotidian use look to infiltrate in the spectator’s daily life.
colombian designer gabriel sierra works within a situation in which the absence of an art market and the scarcity
of functional institutions or non-institutional spaces makes it very difficult to even think about artmaking in
professional terms. and so the activity of producing work becomes less dependent upon its eventual exhibitive
or commercial value and more clearly tied to those quotidian routines that define who we are as individuals
above and beyond our vocational calling.
these objects for quotidian use look to infiltrate in the spectator’s daily life.
colombian designer gabriel sierra works within a situation in which the absence of an art market and the scarcity
of functional institutions or non-institutional spaces makes it very difficult to even think about artmaking in
professional terms. and so the activity of producing work becomes less dependent upon its eventual exhibitive
or commercial value and more clearly tied to those quotidian routines that define who we are as individuals
above and beyond our vocational calling.
gabriel sierra was born in san juan nepomuceno, bolivar in 1975. he lives and works in bogota.
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