ART

28 May – End August 2024

Exhibition at Boutique & Art Hotel Helvetia, Stauffacherquai 1-3, Zurich

Swiss artist Francisco Sierra is showing a varied selection of works including drawings, oil paintings and sculptures. The exhibition doesn’t stop in the public spaces such as the “Wunderkammer”, but finds its way into the hotel as a permanent installation: the Francisco-Sierra-Room.

Francisco Sierra is an artist who is widely recognized for his oil paintings that challenge figuration. He is fascinated by the transformative potential of painting and is constantly exploring the pitfalls of representation and photographic reproduction. In his work categories such as kitsch, decoration, humour and the grotesque dissolve and offer a new perspective into our way of perceiving the world that surrounds us.

Francisco Sierra was born 1977 in Santiago de Chile and moved to Switzerland when he was nine years old. He is a self-taught visual artist and a trained musician. Sierra has won several prestigious awards, including the Swiss Art Award and the Manor Art Prize. His work is featured in numerous institutional and corporate collections in Switzerland and abroad. He lives and works in Cotterd (Switzerland).