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Hilarity and grotesquery in the labor-intensive art of Francisco Sierra This overview of the wide-ranging oeuvre of paintings and sculptures by Chilean-born, Swiss-based artist Francisco Sierra (born 1977) highlights his surrealist juxtapositions and motifs, and his technical skill.
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Francisco Sierra provides multiple answers to the question of what contemporary figurative painting could look like. Born in Chile in 1977, the artist emigrated to Switzerland with his family in 1986. While he was studying violin, Francisco Sierra taught himself how to paint. His photorealist painting, in its outstanding perfection, unsettles as much as the subjects chosen, which are often not what they appear to represent. His painting is ambiguous and is interwoven with a charming irony. Just as Francisco Sierra is interested in the pitfalls of contemporary photographic illustration and the transformation possibilities of painting, he elegantly reflects surrealist and conceptual image pres...
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