An Artist Talks with Jose Maggallanes, 07.04.2011, Tacheles, Berlin

Jose Maggallanes is a Trash artist. He has been working with metal and plastic recently, and constructs sculptures and also collage paintings.

He comes from Mexico and his Grand father taught him the basics in building. He is mostly experimenting new directions, since he has come to the Kunsthaus Tacheles. He searches to express the beauty of the waste and finds it rewarding to use this type of materials, easily found here in Berlin.


He survives with the sales of his scuplture and continues to produce new works. He will try to prepare an exhibition, as soon as he has enough works and feels ready.


His work is influenced also, by a long stay in the U.S.A, were he worked as a graphic designer. So he does not think his sculptures are so close to the Mexican art, but closer to the consummer society problematic, he experienced there.
His problematics and process are more occidental in a way, he says, when explaining about the sculptures.


You see some of his works here just stop by the Kunsthaus and take a look.