Alberto Vitelio Mis Manos
Unique
2021
Aluminium
38 x 38 x 3014.9606 cm
15 x 15 x 1187 in
Mis Manos is a solid aluminium sculpture, with an opening at its top in which a flower can be placed. Furthering a natural allusion, its zoomorphic shape evokes the gesture of a hand. Vitelio hand-shaped the piece by first improvising on a block of foam, resulting in an artwork that begins to mirror and recall the gesture of the artist himself.
Artist
Alberto Vitelio
Alberto Vitelio was born in Santiago, Chile in 1990, in a newly installed democracy, following 17 years of military dictatorship. During this era marked by cultural suppression, persecution and censorship, the artistic scene took on a profoundly dissident and anti-establishment voice. Throughout the 1990s, Chilean art lingered on the fringes while the nation became a testing ground for the neoliberal policies of Milton Friedman.
