- Santiago Sierra
Santiago Sierra (born 1966) is a Spanish artist. He lives in
Mexico City .Sierra's work reflects his views on
capitalism , labor, and exploitation. For instance, he paid a group of workers to move a heavy rock from a point A to a point B and vice versa. On another occasion he paid drug-addicted prostitutes fromBrazil in their drug of choice to let them have a line tattooed across their backs. He also caused controversy by covering tenIraqi immigrants in insulating polyurethane foam and waiting for it to harden. Another of his well known projects is a room of mud inHanover ,Germany , commemorating the job-creation measure origin of theMaschsee .In 2006, he provoked controversy with his installation "245 cubic metres", a gas chamber created inside a former synagogue in
Pulheim , Germany.References
* [http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1730209,00.html Guardian: Artist's homemade gas chamber angers Jewish groups]
* [http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/culturevulture/archives/2006/03/14/chamber_of_horrors.html Guardian: Chamber of horrors]
* [http://arts.guardian.co.uk/critic/feature/0,,1260091,00.html Guardian: Buried alive]External links
* [http://www.santiago-sierra.com/ Official site of Santiago Sierra]
* [http://www.artfacts.net/index.php/pageType/artistInfo/artist/9963/name/Santiago-Sierra Reference page and artist ranking on Artfacts.net]
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