https://www.tirsosigg.com/about daily 0.75 2019-11-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc9bc14b4547951652cd2ad/1573507983219-6CJFKMBS3LRAFDZEPMUA/Screen+Shot+2019-11-11+at+3.31.34+PM.png about Bio Born and Raised in Mexico City, Tirso has lived in the United States since 1987. After years working a variety of jobs, sculpting and making all the while, Tirso received a BFA in Product Design from Savannah College of Art and Design in 2002. Currently living in San Antonio Texas, Tirso assembles artworks from found objects, with an eye for gorgeous worn surfaces and postindustrial nostalgia. Always open to new ideas and opportunities, he turns his eye to discarded and collected objects alike. Currently he keeps busy making unique sculptures for private clients and public exhibitions. He also enjoys running along the river, his family, and the endless sunshine of south Texas. He can be followed on instagram at tirsosiggdesigns or at his website tirsosigg.com. Statement I intend to give a new meaning to the discarded. I feel like I am time crunching, combining slabs of wood with industrial cast-offs- butting pastoral relics with industrial evidence. All of the materials are used, recovered and repurposed. But rather than aspiring to material or thematic unity, I revel in contrast. I’ll take large mechanical elements out of context, take away their function and admire their beautiful form. The turn of a wheel, the patina of a well-worn handle, record the labor of years. The slabs of wood are not exotic; but the form serves to underscore the basic tension between nature and industry. Both of the elements have been kept past their functional lives and reanimated; given a new purpose and a showcase for their unique beauty. I keep the compositions on tiptoe, maybe even gracefully off balance. This is my attempt to imply use or animation, to allude to animals and animal-like movement. I hope the final result is perhaps a bit absurd, even playful. Whether I am making a child’s toy, a sculpture or furniture, I expose the connections and construction. That’s part of the joy; keeping the elements linked but not melded, retaining the identity of the parts as I create unique pieces. You should be able to find the beauty of a bolt, or straps linking metal to wood. All of this bare construction exposes my urgency and inspiration. For the past 25 years, I have been exploring sculpture and three- dimensional objects, using found materials to create unique design objects and art pieces. San Antonio continues to be an inspiration and a fecund garden for my ideas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc9bc14b4547951652cd2ad/1573507983219-6CJFKMBS3LRAFDZEPMUA/Screen+Shot+2019-11-11+at+3.31.34+PM.png about Bio Born and raised in Mexico City, Tirso Sigg has lived in the United States since 1987. After years of balancing a wide range of occupations while continually developing his sculptural practice, he earned an Associate of Fine Arts degree from San Antonio College in 1998 and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Product Design from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2002. Based in San Antonio, Texas, Sigg creates sculptures from reclaimed industrial artifacts and found objects, drawn to the beauty of weathered surfaces, mechanical histories, and post-industrial nostalgia. By transforming discarded materials into evocative compositions, his work explores memory, resilience, movement, and the enduring stories embedded in everyday objects. With more than four decades dedicated to sculpture, Sigg continues to experiment with materials, form, and scale, creating works that reflect both personal experience and broader human narratives. His sculptures have been exhibited in galleries and public spaces and are held in private collections. Beyond the studio, Sigg enjoys redesigning vintage jackets, maintaining an active lifestyle, and spending time with his family. Learn more at tirsosigg.com and follow his work on Instagram @tirsosiggartist. Statement I am drawn to forgotten presences discarded wood, worn steel, rusted mechanisms, and fragments that still bear the memory of their former lives. Rather than erase their histories, I choose to work with them. Their scars, imperfections, and traces of use remain visible, becoming an essential part of the story. Through this process, my work becomes not only an act of making, but also one of recovery, remembrance, and transformation. The dialogue between wood and industrial remnants lies at the heart of my practice. When these rescued forms come together, they take on a new life. They embody the tension between nature and industry, memory and function, permanence and change. In their meeting, I create spaces where opposing forces coexist and where forgotten histories can be seen in a different light. Removed from their original purpose, mechanical components become symbols rather than tools. A wheel no longer turns, yet it continues to suggest cycles of time, return, and transformation. A worn handle bears the imprint of countless human gestures, becoming a quiet record of presence and experience. Rust, abrasion, and patina are not flaws to be concealed; they are evidence of a life lived. They speak of endurance, passage, and the dignity that comes with age. Like the artists of Arte Povera, I am inspired by humble bearers of memory because they resist spectacle. Their significance does not come from rarity or perfection, but from their ability to carry memory and evoke connection. I see these relics as vessels of experience existing between what they once were and what they may become. Through acts of transformation, I invite them into a new chapter, where loss gives way to renewal and forgotten histories find a voice once again. https://www.tirsosigg.com/contact daily 0.75 2019-11-11 https://www.tirsosigg.com/portfolio daily 1.0 2026-06-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc9bc14b4547951652cd2ad/1573502646394-V9EXQ3D8NF8ZBEWT1E6G/Elephant1+2019.jpg portfolio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc9bc14b4547951652cd2ad/1573502766817-EKGRBX308EHGU0MBTI1N/Elephant2+2019.jpg portfolio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc9bc14b4547951652cd2ad/1573502835481-IX7OU2Q4FISM2EX75KSI/Elephant4+2019.jpg portfolio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc9bc14b4547951652cd2ad/1573502901823-AYRX4OLDS7V8KQZ4428R/Elephant6+2019.jpg portfolio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc9bc14b4547951652cd2ad/1573502975829-5TOG43RWB8EWN75F6YJY/Elephant7+2019.jpg portfolio 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