A lot of people seem confused by my research-based artistic practice.
So I’m starting a series.
In these episodes, I’ll discuss the themes, methods, and outcomes of my work — not as separate categories, but as interdependent processes.
Materiality, extraction, industrial production, artistic labor, consumption — some topics that will be discussed. Many questions will be proposed and
hopefully none will be answered.
Episode 1:
“To Make It In This World As An Artist
(I’m Forced To Make Content For You Animals): Introduction”. #art
#contemporaryart
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#artreels
#creativereels
#conceptualart
#sculpture
#processart
#artpractice
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#metalcasting
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I think the mold was still a bit wet causing all these little explosions but it was a fun cast at @objekt4000 and the results were the most precise I’ve ever had. #metal #metalcasting #bronze #sculpture #art
Huge thanks to @ctmfestival for hosting our installation this year! Big ups to the entire @participative.audio.lab team (@mmm_.lc@lundfalafel@cerionimusic@rawfare@stratos_bichakis ) - was great working with all of you! Also my deepest appreciation for the entire @hauberlin team that helped with our install! Thank you as well to @borninflamez for your guidance, patience, and curation of the project. Final thanks to @jamie.jar for the stunning camera work! Was a really fulfilling week with incredible programming and talent all over the city - now back to the studio with a head full of new ideas and inspiration!
A recap in reel format of the past days of posting about Venezuela, history, current events, analysis. If you finally are paying attention to Venezuela, please educate before you open your mouth. We have a complex past present and future. #venezuela #nomaduro #venezuelalibre #venezuela🇻🇪
“Bululú”
2023–2025
copper, copper-aluminum alloys, aluminum, aluminum-copper alloys
20cm x 60cm x 60cm
26 kilos
“Bululú” is the amalgamation of the first two years of experimental metal alloying and metal casting Santiago Burelli developed at his foundry located at the OBJEKT4000 bunker.
Bululú is a Spanish term that refers to a large, disorderly crowd, or a noisy commotion caused by many people gathered in one place.
Through various cutting-edge molding techniques — actively avoiding dogmatic and formulaic metal casting tradition — Burelli created a collection of works that address allegedly juxtaposing themes:
• figurative v. abstract
• industrial v. organic
• human v. nature
• waste v. assets
After two years researching illegal extractivist mining, Burelli has traced the extractive process from clandestine mines in the Amazon directly into his own alchemical practice as a self-taught metal caster. Experimenting with alloying, modern casting techniques, and the sonification of extractivist materials, Burelli presents “Bululú”, a collection of works that straddle the line between the abstract and the figurative, the organic and the industrial.
Using recycled metals sourced from scrap yards and melted down, he restructures these materials into heaps of bones, fossils, and metallic rocks—forms that both extend and interrupt the industrial process while echoing the history of archaeology, from dinosaur fossils to human remains.
Special thanks to @billie_clarken for photographing the work.
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#contemporaryart #sculpture #metalsculpture #artinstallation #publicart #artcollector #artcurator #artecontemporaneo #sculpturalart #metalcasting #foundryart #conceptualart #abstractart #figurativeart #materialresearch #experimentalart #studioart #artprocess #artwork #artistsoninstagram #artgallery #objectart
Hello everyone! The @objekt4000 bunker team is reaching out for support and help! If you have participated in one of our events as an artist as an audience member or as a volunteer we now ask for your support! You know how much this space means to us and how much it means to Berlin in the face of closing artistic spaces and the defunding of the artistic class in a city that it crucial to the global artistic movement. Our goal is to raise €8000 to finally connect the bunker to the electrical grid and stop using generators which are inefficient, noisy, dangerous, and break down constantly. We have already done the pre-engineering work and are ready to buy materials and hire out electrical engineers! We just need your support! Remember we are a fully self funded DIY project that ALWAYS has its doors open to new ideas and offers it’s over 5500m of space to YOU - for free or VERY CHEAP. Even €5 helps us! Support our crowdfund and please always feel invited to join us as a volunteer, artist, or someone with a great idea of a new bunker project! So far we’ve opened our doors to countless events, a community run metal foundry, and an open source Anechoic chamber! Help us secure the next decade of bunker life!
Peak from our performance @ -The Orb of Xiath- in the @Objekt4000 nuclear warhead bunker...live-corrosive-braindance vibes with a touch of ☢...
V.mapping by @datalumifilm
Thanks for the invite @sofaloader@ani.samperi and to everyone involved opening these portals 🌀 👽 looking forward to keep these collabs going on...
In reverse: “luxury garbage” is an ongoing series of sculptures that required me to visit abandoned locations and scrap yards to collect the materials that make up the final sculpture. I then meticulously polish and clean specific parts of these recycled materials to “mirror finish.” I use steel and gas-based lights within this series.
what was once putrid, rusty, and decript trash and refuse now shines and bears the reflection of its on-lookers. rust still populates the work but now it bears new symbolism due to its proximity to areas that shine. what was once filth is now history - a passage of time and an aesthetic that tells a story of these objects’ lives as well as the locations in which they are found.
this series also critique’s rampant wasteful production practices within the art industry, as well as the market’s many times arbitrary designation of value and the practice of tokenizing artists and exploiting personality rather than developing quality and giving importance to craftsmanship, skill, and concept.
commisions of “luxury garbage“ are available and each work is a 1 of 1 original hand selected, polished, and arranged by myself in the location of said commission.
each work is also paired with a conceptual poem laser cut into steel sheet that delineates the history and process behind each specific sculpture. this collection also marks the first chapter into my work as a metal smith and metal sculpture artist - I now consider myself in a second chapter of understanding, alchemy, alloying, and casting as the central focus of my metal work but the idea of collecting and up-cycling scrap and refuse is still central to my work.
