Bolivian artist creating sculptures from used tires to raise environmental awareness

Online News Editor June 4, 2023



By Gina Baldivieso

Cochabamba, Bolivia, Jun 4 (EFE).- He uses tires from bicycles or motorized vehicles, transforming them into dinosaurs, armadillos and even the fearsome xenomorph from the film “Alien.” Sandro Arellano is creating the rubber sculptures to raise the public’s environmental awareness, especially among the younger generations.

Based in the central Bolivian city of Cochabamba, Arellano told EFE that he graduated from that city’s Institute of Plastic Arts and has devoted himself to creating sculpture for the past 24 years.

He got the idea of using used tires to make art during the Covid-19 pandemic quarantine.

“Since we were locked down, I saw the possibility of transforming this material that has polymers that (aren’t affected by) water or rain,” he said.

Upon seeing the huge number of bicycle, motorcycle and vehicle tires discarded along the streets of Cochabamba, Arellano got the idea of giving them a “new life” by turning them into “high traffic” sculptures.

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