Bosco Sodi | |
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Born | 1970 |
Nationality | Mexican |
Children | 3 |
Relatives | Sodi family |
Website |
boscosodi |
Bosco Sodi is a Mexican contemporary artist. He was born in Mexico City in 1970, and works in Barcelona, Berlin, Mexico, and New York City. [1] [2]
In 2014 Sodi opened Casa Wabi, an arts centre outside Puerto Escondido, in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. Parts of it were designed by the Pritzker Prize-winning Japanese architect Tadao Ando. [3] [4] He also operates an exhibition place called Santa María in Mexico City, and an art residency called Casa Nano in Tokyo. [3]
His installation Muro – a wall of bricks made in Mexico – was built in Washington Square Park in New York on 8 September 2017, and dismantled the same day by passers-by who took a brick each. [2] The work was created again on the South Bank in London on the occasion of the visit to the United Kingdom of Donald Trump. [5]
Sodi is the son of Juan Sodi, a property developer and chemical engineer. [4] He lives in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City, with his wife the designer Lucía Corredor, and his three teenagers. [3]
Bosco Sodi | |
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Born | 1970 |
Nationality | Mexican |
Children | 3 |
Relatives | Sodi family |
Website |
boscosodi |
Bosco Sodi is a Mexican contemporary artist. He was born in Mexico City in 1970, and works in Barcelona, Berlin, Mexico, and New York City. [1] [2]
In 2014 Sodi opened Casa Wabi, an arts centre outside Puerto Escondido, in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. Parts of it were designed by the Pritzker Prize-winning Japanese architect Tadao Ando. [3] [4] He also operates an exhibition place called Santa María in Mexico City, and an art residency called Casa Nano in Tokyo. [3]
His installation Muro – a wall of bricks made in Mexico – was built in Washington Square Park in New York on 8 September 2017, and dismantled the same day by passers-by who took a brick each. [2] The work was created again on the South Bank in London on the occasion of the visit to the United Kingdom of Donald Trump. [5]
Sodi is the son of Juan Sodi, a property developer and chemical engineer. [4] He lives in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City, with his wife the designer Lucía Corredor, and his three teenagers. [3]