Vicente Prieto Gaggero
Santiago de Chile, 1989
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.
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His work explores, from a post-humanist perspective, man’s relationship with matter and time, while manifesting itself as an act of memory and conscious exploration of the past, placing in tension his Latin American identity and his reality as a migrant in Europe. The artist’s choice of materiality, contrasting clay with synthetic formulations, is a representation of the ecological disaster and the utopia/dystopia dichotomy of this era defined by human influence on the planet.
Prieto Gaggero’s research emphasizes the importance of the use of the senses – such as touch or feeling – in creation and reflection, relating them to matter and form in a duality between the technological and the organic.
The artist has held creative residencies in Barcelona and A Coruña, and since 2014 has exhibited individually and collectively in spaces in Chile, Peru, Costa Rica, Mexico, the United States and Spain.
He lives and works in Barcelona.
