The past is never dead. It’s not even past. General view at Museo Arte Moderno Bogota MamBO

Columbus Egg/bollock (1897 – 2024) Bronze and rubber ball. From a Césare Sighinolfi. Sculpture

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Tio (2021)

Fragmento de escultura de Gonzalo Jiménez de Quezada intervenido con chaquiras que incorporan símbolos de la cultura Inga del Putumayo, Colombia

Tio (2021) Detaille

Fragmento de escultura de Gonzalo Jiménez de Quezada intervenido con chaquiras que incorporan símbolos de la cultura Inga del Putumayo, Colombia

Tio (2021)

Fragmento de escultura de Gonzalo Jiménez de Quezada intervenido con chaquiras que incorporan símbolos de la cultura Inga del Putumayo, Colombia

Madre 2021

Bust of Queen Isabella of Castile, intervened with beads using symbols of the Inga culture from Putumayo, Colombia.

Madre 2021 (detail)

Bust of Queen Isabella of Castile, intervened with beads using symbols of the Inga culture from Putumayo, Colombia.

Padre (2021)

Bust of Christopher Columbus, intervened with beads using symbols of the Inga culture from Putumayo, Colombia.

Padre (2021) Detail

Bust of Christopher Columbus, intervened with beads using symbols of the Inga culture from Putumayo, Colombia.

Public trial (2017 – 2021) Frontal view

Wall constructed with second hand and discarded plywood

Public trial (2017 – 2021) Reverse

Mixed media on wood

Pueblo (2021)

Bronze sculpture, stone and propane. The piece is based on a Bolivar sculpture that was set on fire during protests in Bogota in May 2021.

That Who Does Not Suffer Does Not Live (2009 – 2021)

Video projection and paintings on board.

Hogar (2021)
Crystal lamp and propane system

Dialogue (2021)

Human teeth, bronze knuckle

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The Piece was originally created in Bogota, Colombia; this is an estimated cost of the production in Tijuana, Mexico and San Diego USA:

• Burnt bus purchase and adaptation of the interior for the piece: 5.000
• Projector and sound system: 1.000
• Transportation of the piece back and forth from Mexico: 4.000
• Assistants fee in San Diego: 1500