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Shiny horses against sea spray, sunsets, parquet-patterned carpets, a greyhound, and a towering neon spider: Francisco Sierra (1977 in Santiago de Chile, now lives and works in Cotterd (VD), Switzerland) takes us into a world full of fantasy that seems at times familiar, then dreamlike – a world that wavers between reality and imagination. Golden musical notes on the façade herald the artist’s solo exhibition on the second floor of Kunstmuseum Solothurn. New works specifically made for Alfombra* combined with already existing ones in various places enter into a dialog with works from the museum’s permanent collection.
An autodidact, Sierra has appropriated his own pictorial language, which is characterized by technical precision, wit, and conceptual tension. He is interested in the illusion of reality, the fluid transition between fact and fiction, and the possibility of creating by his own hand an artistic universe where pre…
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Shiny horses against sea spray, sunsets, parquet-patterned carpets, a greyhound, and a towering neon spider: Francisco Sierra (1977 in Santiago de Chile, now lives and works in Cotterd (VD), Switzerland) takes us into a world full of fantasy that seems at times familiar, then dreamlike – a world that wavers between reality and imagination. Golden musical notes on the façade herald the artist’s solo exhibition on the second floor of Kunstmuseum Solothurn. New works specifically made for Alfombra* combined with already existing ones in various places enter into a dialog with works from the museum’s permanent collection.
An autodidact, Sierra has appropriated his own pictorial language, which is characterized by technical precision, wit, and conceptual tension. He is interested in the illusion of reality, the fluid transition between fact and fiction, and the possibility of creating by his own hand an artistic universe where pre…
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