At 22 of May, I'm going to talk, in the english class, about one of my favorite artist. Santiago Serra is a spanish visual artist. He's from Madrid, one of the most important cities of Spain, and by the way, is the capital of the country. He finished his studies in Germany, and developing his career in Mexico. His art, use and work with diferent topics, but all of them be relationated with social granting, making visible and obvious, the way that the world works about laboral politics and the control of the capitalism in our lives like the working explotation, migration in America, inequality in the riches distribution and discrimination for race reasons. The way that he transform this problems in art, is by carry those subjects to the extreme, being radical use the same way to act. The behavior is amplify. With his knowledge about minimalism, conceptual art and performance , he make instalations, scultptures and "happenings" or performances, with marginal people like homeless persons, prostituts, inmigrants and black people. For his work, he employ at people for the price stipulated in a agreement, he can pay with money, drugs or whatever they want habitually relationated with they needs or addictions.
His social review invade the art territory, critique that no happen unperceived. He, with his work, control at the exact same that the politicians do. He affect the spectators with his crudeness, interpellated them directly, making clear a repressive sistem.
At the photograph, «Line at 250 cm tattoo on 6 remunerate persons» (Cuba, 1999, about social excludes)
I think Sierra it's awesome, the way he talks about power in such a direct, cruel way it's more effective and signifficant than what other artist have done.
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