Santiago Sierra's Mea Culpa Survey at PAC Milan
There's an exhibition called "Mea Culpa" at the PAC in Milan, featuring the work of Santiago Sierra, a conceptual artist from Madrid born in 1966. It highlights his impactful political art from the 1990s up to now, including some performance pieces. One standout is a 2016 sculpture that’s propped against a wall and involves a rotating group of four workers. You'll also see striking black-and-white photos, like "Una Persona Pagata per Pulire le Scarpe ai Visitatori…" from 2000 and "Ostruzione di Una Superstrada con Un Camion a Rimorchio" from 1998, both critiquing the interplay of democracy and dictatorship. Sierra even paid a thousand homeless people ten euros each to come to the opening!
Key facts
- First extensive Italian retrospective of Santiago Sierra at PAC Milan.
- Exhibition titled Mea Culpa runs at PAC, Milano, 2017.
- Includes work Forma di 600 x 57 x 52cm Costruita per Essere Sostenuta Perpendicolarmente ad una Parete (2016).
- Sculpture supported by four rotating workers at Konig Gallery, Berlin.
- Features photographs Una Persona Pagata per Pulire le Scarpe ai Visitatori… (2000) and Ostruzione di Una Superstrada con Un Camion a Rimorchio (1998).
- Artist critiques power structures of nation-states and regimes.
- Sierra comments on presenting 'exotic postcards' to aware tourists.
- Performance involved paying a thousand homeless people ten euros each to attend the opening.
Entities
Artists
- Santiago Sierra
Institutions
- PAC
- Konig Gallery
- Isisuf – Istituto Internazionale di Studi sul Futurismo di Milano
- Artribune
Locations
- Milan
- Italy
- Berlin
- Germany
- Madrid
- Spain
- Mexico City
- Mexico