Bosco Sodi
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]
Bosco Sodi | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1970 |
| Nationality | Mexican |
| Children | 3 |
| Relatives | Sodi family |
| Website | boscosodi |
Work
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]
Life
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]
References
- Peter Milosheff (22 September 2010). Mexican Artist Bosco Sodi's Bronx Exhibition. Bronx Times. Archived 17 October 2011.
- Abraham Martinez (8 September 2017). Mexican Artist Bosco Sodi Built a Wall Faster Than Trump. New York: Observer. Accessed December 2018.
- Laura van Straaten (26 April 2022). Can a New Art Space Refresh a Tired Downtown? The New York Times. Accessed September 2022.
- Elisa Lipsky-Karasz (2 October 2014). Casa Wabi: Bosco Sodi's Arts Foundation. The Wall Street Journal. Archived 22 April 2015.
- Alexandra Topping (9 July 2018). Donald Trump to face 'carnival of resistance'. The Guardian. Accessed December 2018.
Further reading
- Dakin Hart, Juan Manuel Bonet (2020). Bosco Sodi. New York: Rizzoli International. ISBN 9780847867875.