Fernando Azcoytia Painter, portrait and
illustration artist and graphic designer was born in
Montevideo, Uruguay in 1959. At a very young age his
vocation and talent for graphic expression were evident. As
a teenager, he went through Technical Drawing courses and
afterwards worked as an Architect's assistant. The
discipline and skill he acquired through technical drawing
in addition to the freedom that stems from his innate talent
as an artist placed him in an excellent position to
adventure into the fields of painting and graphic
advertising. With admirable equilibrium, he blends creative
originality and technical rigor. Like most artists, he's had
periods of intense production with gaps of inactivity and
silence dedicated to introspection and reflection. He has
drawn audacious and innovative lines and at the same time
followed more conventional paths. Nevertheless, in his work
beats and pulses the energy of an authentic creator that
under no means takes the easy way to things, on the
contrary, he's never resigned to his esthetic principles.
Studies and
exhibitions:
1978: Attends
Juan Perdomo Coll's workshop
1989: Awarded 1st
mention at the ANGLO contest, OSE Gallery 1990: Casa de la
Cultura Treinta y Tres, Travelling exhibit "Los Boliches"
1991: National
Book Institute (Instituto Nacional del Libro) Individual
exhibit, Christmas Gallery at Club del Sol
1992: Ciudadela
Gallery, Zira Guichón Gallery, National Book Institute,
Individual exhibit
1995: Christmas
Gallery at Club del Sol, Perdomo y Maribí Ugolino Workshop,
Collective exhibit, Dos Mundos, Collective exhibit, Amarcord,
Individual exhibit
1997: Travels to
Paris where he rejoices looking at the classics and
Impressionists.
Finishes his pictorical formation
1999/2002: Art
Director at Anelo Estudio and Pattern Advertising.
2002/2003:
Individual exhibit Zira Guichón Gallery, Punta del Este,
Individual exhibit Junta Departamental de Montevideo
2004 to the
present: Individual exhibit Las Dunas Hotel, Punta del Este,
Collective exhibit, Machango Gallery, San Carlos, Collective
exhibit MVD Gallery, Collective exhibit Zira Guichon
Gallery, Punta del Este, Collective exhibit, Bolichearte,
Montevideo, Collective exhibit, De la Bahía
Gallery
About his
work, by Uruguayan artist Osman Astesiano: A work of art
has definitively concluded when it comes together with the
perception of every observer and the meaning that the artist
tries to convey. Their susceptibility is key in achieving a
magic and indispensable dialogue. With a subtle and spatial
proposal of dreamlike poetics, Azcoytia allows us to conjure
and adapt in our minds our own mental landscapes and images.
The solid tones and polished lines of his work consolidates
this pictorical result.
Gloria
Mabel Pacheco
Was born in Montevideo, Uruguay. Begins her studies with Master
Hugo Rossi in the year 1996, in technique, drawing, pastel and
oil, paintbrush and palette knife on cloth (canvas, fabric) and
fiber.
1998: 2nd (Conference Parade) (Evocative expressive )
Arts Sample Rotary Club Uruguay
1999: Individual Sample at Convention Center, Punta del Este,
Uruguay
2000: Caravelle Travel Gallery, Uruguay; National Library Villa
del Cordon 2500 Anniversary, Uruguay
20001: Christian Youth Association Uruguay;
Luís A. Solari Museum, Fray Bentos, Uruguay; State
Health Works (OSE, Uruguay) Local Draining Provider;
Casa de la Cultura Museum, Uruguay;
Ministry of Foreign Relations, Uruguay;
2002: Residents Club from Treinta y Tres, Uruguay; Christian
Youth Association, Uruguay; Dragons Quarters, Uruguay
2003: Christian Youth Association, Uruguay; State Health Works (OSE-
Uruguay), First Sculpture and Painting Sample, Legislative
Courts, Uruguay
2004: 3rd
Administrative Workshop Training from CACSOE, Uruguay; Expo-Art,
Uruguay; 2nd Sculpture and Painting Sample "Master
Joaquin Torres Garcia"; Legislative Courts, Uruguay; Christian
Youth Association, Uruguay; Al pie de la
muralla, Uruguay;
Permanent exhibition
in Florida Gallery, Premises 24-25, Uruguay; Permanent
exhibition at Entire Street Arts Gallery, Bartolome Mitre 1379
Uruguay Member of APEU (Painters and Sculptors Association from
Uruguay); Member of the Uruguay Cultural Foundation for the
Arts, Washington, US
About his work, by
Uruguayan artist Osman Astesiano: An intellectual and
sensitive way exist, that when it journeys in the representation
of the reality by the experience, interpretation and feelings,
of an only representative of our race, is transformed into an
artistic fact. To manage by means of the drawing and of the
color to represent the visual reality through that difficult way
is profit of few. I see Mabel Pacheco walking in the right
direction.
Laura
Spera Was born in Montevideo, Uruguay. In 1992,
she started studying painting with well-known artists such as
Nelson Ramos, Guillermo Fernandez and Clever Lara. She studied
also artistic nude with R. Osorio and Alvaro Amengual. Laura is
the author of many family portraits, ordered directly at private
sessions or by photographs.
Studies and
exhibitions:
1992/2004: Clever
Lara' s Atelier, History of Arts Studies, Techniques and Color
Theory
1993/1995: Study of
Chinese Ink, Human Figure taught by A. Amengual, R. Osorio
1995/1998: Studies of
Human Portraits (Technique Oil). History of Arts with Clever
Lara and J. Morera
2001/2002:
Woodcarving course under P. Peralta; Studies "Guernica" Pablo
Picasso, taught by Zully Lara and L. Correa,
Group Exhibition,
Intendencia Rivera, Tacuarembo and Fray Bentos, Uruguay
1995: Exhibition " 20
años y un Taller", Intendencia
Municipal de Montevideo, Clever Lara's 1996/2000: Atelier, Group
Exhibition, LATU, La Spezia, Clever Lara's Atelier
2000: Selected,
Muestra de Plásticos, Punta del Este,
Maldonado, Mention
2001: Three women
ESPIRITU, COLOR, MATERIA, Espacio Cultural- "Castillo
Pittamiglio"; "Tango" (Oil 2002: on canvas), Trench Gallery, La
Barra, Punta del Este.
2003: Group
Exhibition, Hotel Palladium, Clever Lara's Atelier
2004: - Exhibition "Gente
en Obras V ", Central Station General Artigas (AFE); Selected
works "Miradas de Hispanoamerica" (Uruguay - Mexico - Spain);
Exhibition Central Cinema, "Exotico"
2004: Individual
Exhibition, "ENCUADRES", La Spezia, December 14.
2005: Selected,
Uruguay Cultural Foundation for the Arts, Washington DC,
Exhibition February 3rd, 2005, Salon de las Artes
(1913 I Street, NW).
About his work, by
Uruguayan artist Clever Lara: Most of these paintings topics
are human faces fragments belonging to celebrities'
representatives from the painting and the literature world. The
choice is at random, but it intends to integrate both national
and foreign artists. Thus, men and women from different times
and places; parade as if coming out from close 'framings '.
When Laura Spera
paints, she travels along face traces of time, using wide brush
strokes. Neither her shaping, nor her color have a predominant
descriptive intention. It seems to be more a game of graph isms
and colors, which refers to fragments of reality. The
photograph, source of these images, imposed since its
appearance, those first close-ups, dramatically cut out. It is
understandable that the painter saves for herself, those close
visions, so that she can build from there, these huge
micro-worlds. "
