Banquetas Chévere (Chévere Stool)

Courtesy of the artist and Embajada, San Juan

Architecture and Design

2018

Jorge González Santos (Boricua, born 1981)
Escuela de Oficios (Puerto Rican, founded 2014)
With the guidance of knowledge-holders Don Eustaquio Alers, hammock maker from Aguadilla, and Joe Hernández, wood turner from Pozas, Ciales

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Architecture and Design

Artist: Jorge González Santos
Title: Banquetas Chévere (Chévere Stool)
Place: Puerto Rico (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 2018
Medium: Woven cotton cord on constructed “roble” wood (Tabebuia heterophylla)
Dimensions: 53.4 × 46.4 × 48.9 cm (21 × 18 1/4 × 19 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Mr. and Mrs. David C. Hilliard Endowment Fund
Reference Number: 2023.1337
Copyright: Courtesy of the artist and Embajada, San Juan

Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Missouri, We didn’t ask permission, we just did it…., Sept.
9, 2022 – Feb. 12, 2023.
Chicago Architecture Biennial, otras formas de nosotres, Sept. 19, 2019 – Jan. 5, 2020.
Embajada, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 359 dias en 19 meses (359 days in 19 months), Jan. 7 – Mar. 11,
2017.

The artist; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2023.

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