For Vicente Prieto Gaggero, tradition is a political tool, a strategy that allows him to reflect on the control that exists in our societies; a biopolitical exercise that is not far from the colonial processes that, since the 16th century, have taken away the ancestral territories of Latin American peoples. In his case, tradition emerges from the past in the form of a sculptural technique: burnishing. His works defend sustainable practices and a raw material with zero environmental impact, such as clay. The result is a series of works that refer to this ancestral essence, to an organicism that turns to the present of art to question the control mechanisms that characterize our postmodern cities.
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Vicente Prieto Gaggero is a visual artist and sculptor who graduated from the Postgraduate Course in Contemporary Applied Arts, specializing in ceramics, at the Escola Massana in Barcelona.
In his sculptural practice, Prieto Gaggero uses clay as the central axis of a conscious political process, fusing precolonial elements with modern thought, reflecting on the complexity of the human condition in the Anthropocene era.
