Gabriel Sierra  
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Positioning the furniture in a house is the first step in a strategy to have the world somehow under control. Disassembling a house. Making a hollow in the wall to find the space that’s missing. A house that consumes itself, to regurgitate possibilities. A few pieces of furniture that are ahead of the architecture. A house without limits for containing its inhabitants’ illusions. The void is the house. It is shaped by the needs of the family.

Recent shows: “Sueño de casa propia” La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain, 2007. “Habitat-Variations” Batiment de Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland, 2007. “Compuesto Verde” (stepmothernature-series) Centre d’Art Contemporain de Brétigny, Brétigny-sur Orge, France, 2006. “Untitled” (Temporary Intervention) Water Bar Colette, Paris, France, 2005.

Gabriel Sierra’s residency was funded by Hivos and Doen Stichting as part of the Triangle Arts Trust Latin American Network.


 
             
             
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Gabriel Sierra
 

Born in San Juan Nepomuceno, Bolivar in 1975. Lives and works in Bogota. In 2000 he graduates as Industrial Designer, in the Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano. From the beginning he worked in a space between art and design. During 2006 he presented the solo exhibitions Compuesto Verde(stepmothernature-series) in the Centre d’Art Contemporain from Brétigny, Brétigny- sur Orge, France, and Día de Frutas y Nubes Negras (stepmothernature_series) El Bodegón, Bogotá. In 2005 he exhibits in Paris. He also participated in important group exhibitions in several cities around the world, such as the Or Gallery in Vancouver, Canada in 2006 and the Salon Nacional in Colombia. In 2004 he participates in the International Design Bienal in Saint – Etienne and in the Galería de la Raza in San Francisco, California. In 1998 he participates in the exhibition New Designers, in the Business Design Center in London, England.