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Artist: Alvaro Amengual ( Uruguay, 1957 - present ) -
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Main Category: Painting
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Genres: Neo-Expressionism, Contemporary South American Art, Post Modern Art
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Biography: ACADEMIC BACKGROUND AND TEACHING
1978-1980 – He studied in San Francisco de Asís Institute of Fine Arts, also “Drawing and painting” with Prof. Clever Lara, and “Sculpture” with Prof. Freddie Faux.
1986 - National Museum of Plastic and Visual Arts, “Course on metal engraving” with Prof.David Finkbeiner.
1987- Engraving Club of Montevideo, Lithography – Architect Álvaro Cármenes.
MUSEUMS THAT HAVE HIS WORKS -
“Juan Manuel Blanes” Municipal Museum, Plastic and Visual Arts Museum, San Fernando Municipal Museum (Maldonado), Museum of the Miraflores Municipality (Lima, Peru).
Private collections in Uruguay, Peru and Spain.
Publications and critics written by de Angel Kalemberg, Jorge Carbajal, Jorge Abondanza, María E. Yugero , Carlos Santiago, Miguel Angel Campodónico, Clio Bugel, Macarena Langleib, Federico Arregui, Nelson Di Maggio, Federico Arregui, Pablo Thiago Rocca among others (see details below)
PUBLICATIONS
“25 años de Pintura Uruguaya” – Jorge Carbajal
“Arte Uruguayo y otros” – Prof. Ángel Kalenberg
“Un espacio, una luz, un volumen” – Álvaro Amengual – “Relaciones” magazine, nr. 40
“La diáspora interior” – Carlos Santiago – “El diario”
“Museos del Mundo” – Published by Diario “El País”
“Al Sur del Sur” –“Arte y Antigüedades” publications
“Uruguayos por su nombre” –Miguel Ángel Campodónico – “Fin de Siglo” publishers
“La Creación Silenciosa del Espejo” – María E. Yuguero – “Cuadernos de Marcha”, nr. 119
“Amengual y Pelayo hacen “papelones” en Lima” – María E. Yuguero – Guía del Ocio, 2/96
“Dibujos de un mar que no estaba sereno” -Macarena Langleib – Diario “El Observador”, Sept 2’98
“Mitologías marinas” – Clio Bugel – “Brecha” weekly
“El oficio y la libertad” – María E. Yuguero – “Socio Espectacular” magazine
“El mar caótico” – “Revista 3” – Aug. 14’98
“Del maremagnum al mare nostrum” – Prof. Ángel Kalenberg – “Maremagnum” catalog
“El universo personal” – Jorge Abbondanza – Diario “EL País” – June 1, 2000
“Los tres planos de la seducción” – Jorge Abbondanza -“Inturnos” catalog
“Simbolismo de lo oscuro” – Federico Arregui – “Busqueda” weekly – July 21, ‘01
“De dibujante a pintor” – Nelson Di Maggio – Diario “La República” – July 1, 01
“Comienza el diluvio” – Pablo Thiago Rocca – “Brecha” weekly
“El culto de Amengual” – Miguel Carvajal – Diario “El País”, July 29 ‘01
“De poesía y otras evocaciones afectivas” – María E. Yuguero – “Impromptu” catalog
“Enciclopedia del Uruguay” – Publications of Diario “El Observador”
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Exhibition History: 2005 - The generation of the 80’s - Carlos Seveso, Carlos Barca, Carlos Musso, Álvaro Amengual, “Del Paseo” Hall– Manantiales, Maldonado
2004 - “Coincidences and divergences with reality” - Clever Lara, Juan Pedro Paz, Esteban Smerdiner, Álvaro Amengual. Zorrilla Museum
2004 - Solo exhibition Drawings and watercolors Artigas theater. Trinidad, Flores, Uruguay
2002 -“Eppur si muove”, Carlos Federico Sáez Hall – Ministry of Transport and Public Works
2001 - “90th Anniversary of the Visual Arts National Museum”, Visual Arts National Museum
2001 - ”The idea of Tango” – Market Workshops, Itinerant exhibit along several European countries (Germany, Austria, France, Spain)
2001 - Solo exhibition “IMPROMPTU”. Carlos Federico Sáez Hall, Ministry of Transport and Public Works
2001 - Solo exhibition Drawings and Paintings, Sara García Uriburu Gallery - Buenos Aires, Argentina
2000 - Solo exhibition “INTURNOS”, “Del Paseo” Hall
1999 - “ARTEACTUAL”, Carrasco Lawn Tennis
1998 - “MAREMAGNUM” – Pilar González, Álvaro Amengual - Borges Cultural Center– Buenos Aires, Argentina
1998 - “MAREMAGNUM” – Pilar González, Álvaro Amengual - Buquebus Foundation, Montevideo
1998 - “16 Artistas Desencajados”, Del Paseo, Hall.
1998 - “Small portraits” - “Del Paseo” Hall
1997 - Solo exhibition Drawings, Café Fábula
1997 - Cultura en Obra, Ministry of Transport and Public Works
1997 - International Batuz Museum Sachsen Foundation Prize, Torres García Museum, Ministry of Education and Culture
1997 - Simón Patiño’s Foundation 50th Anniversary Exhibit, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Uruguay and Uruguayan Embassy in Bolivia, La Paz – Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivia)
1997 - 1st Uruguayan Museum of Historical Mural Art
1997 - Mural painting, Rosario- Colonia (Uruguay)
1997 - American Contemporary Art – OAS’s XXVII General Assembly, Artist invited for Uruguay, Pedro de Osma Museum (Lima – Peru)
1997 - Montecaturas, Main Hall of the Local Government Building, Montevideo
1997 - Design for the stained glass windows of the Divina Pastora Chapel, Montevideo
1996 - Solo exhibition Miraflores Municipality Cultural Center (Lima, Peru) Luis Miró Quesada Garland Hall
1996 - Solo exhibition Cultura en Obra ‘96
1996 - Solo exhibition Ministry of Education and Culture
1996 - Solo Itinerant exhibitions in the cities of Minas, Rocha and Tacuarembó, Uruguay
1996 - Eight Uruguayan Painters, Santa Mónica Gallery - (Asunción, Paraguay)
1996 - A caricature of Uruguay, Main Hall of the Montevideo Local Government Building
1996 - 100 Uruguayan Plastic Artist, Legislative Palace (Montevideo)
1996 - 16 Artists – Teachers, Ministry of Education and Culture – Departmental Governments, Itinerant exhibition along several upcountry cities UNITED AIRLINES Prize”
1994 - Uruguayan Artists”, Alternate Current Gallery (Lima, Peru)
1994 - “Artists and Children of Uruguay” (UNICEF) Galería Latina
1994 - “36 Uruguayan Artists”, Casa Castelví, Paraguay
1994 - Visual Arts Open Museum. Mural painting – San Gregorio de Polanco (Tacuarembó)
1994 - Invited by the Presidency of the Republic to take part in the preparation of the “Uruguay Joven” folder of serigraphs
1994 - “20 Years and a Workshop” / Lara Workshop Main Hall of the Montevideo Local Government Building
1993 - Museum of American Art, Maldonado - Invited to enter the competition for the “PAN AM Prize for Young Art”
1993 - Visual Arts Open Museum - Mural painting – San Gregorio de Polanco (Tacuarembó)
1991- Invited to take part for the plastic and Visual Arts Museum in the preparation of a Folder with Serigraphs, together with artists Raúl Pavlotsky, Nelson Ramos, Manuel Pailós, Amalia Nieto, Clever Lara, Jorge Damiani and Miguel Battegazzore.
1990 - Museum of American Art, Maldonado. Invited to enter the competition for
1989 - 1st Prize, Maldonado Local Government
1989 - “PAN AM Prize for Young Art”, Maldonado Museum of American Art.
1989 - 1st Prize- “Banco República’s Watercolor Salon”
1988 - 2nd Prize, Bienarte II, Alianza Cultural Uruguay-Estados Unidos
1988 - INCA Prize
1988 - 36th Plastic Arts Municipal Salon
1988 - 1st Prize – Arts Salon, Painting, Banco República
1988 - Museum of American Art, Maldonado Invited to enter the competition for the “PAN AM Prize for Young Art”
1988 - Museum of Art, Rio Grande do Sul (Porto Alegre, Brazil) Engraving Club of Montevideo
1988 - The Museum of Plastic and Visual Arts purchases his work “De los estudios que Blanes nunca realizó para el retrato de Doña Carlota Ferreira (Of the studies never made by Blanes for his portrait of Ms. Carlota Ferreira)
1988 - Painting Hall, Banco República
1987 - International Arts Foundation – Connecticut, U.S.A. “Miniature Print Biennale 1987”
1987 - Notarial Gallery – “Máquinas de no soñar” - Inés Olmedo, Omar Bohuid, Gustavo Fernández, Álvaro Amengual
1987 - Uruguayan-Brazilian Culture Institute/Contemporary Art Museum - “Prize - Voyage to the Sao Paulo Biennale”
1987 - Sao Paulo Biennale as a result of the prize awarded in the Competition
“Prize - Voyage to the Sao Paulo Biennale” – FIRST honorable mention.
1987 - 35th Municipal Plastic Arts Salon.
1987 - Paintings Salon, Automóvil Club
1987 - First Honorable Mention, “Travel to the Sao Paulo Biennale” Prize Uruguayan-Brazilian Cultural Institute
1987 - Museum of Contemporary Art- “Premio Adquisición Categoría II”
1987 - 35th Municipal Plastic Arts Salon
1987 - 2nd Prize – Arts Salon, Paintings, Automóvil Club del Uruguay
1986 - Museum of American Art, Maldonado mInvited to enter the competition for the “PAN AM Prize for Young Art”
1986 - National Museum of Plastic and Visual Arts “Engravings”.
1986 - Watercolors Salon, Banco República
1986 - Novos Valores da Arte Latino-Americana
1986 - 2º Festival Latinoamericano da Arte e Cultura (Brasília, Brazil)
1986 - Invited by the Engraving Club to take part in the preparation of a Folder with Serigraphs, together with artists Nelson Ramos, Domingo Ferreira, Hugo Alíes and Alfredo Testoni
1984 - Solo exhibition Espacio Universitario
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Collections: Inturnos
Anonimous Portraits
Human Passions
The house of the Eagle
Variations on Vermeer
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Bibliography: PUBLICATIONS
“25 años de Pintura Uruguaya” – Jorge Carbajal
“Arte Uruguayo y otros” – Prof. Ángel Kalenberg
“Un espacio, una luz, un volumen” – Álvaro Amengual – “Relaciones” magazine, nr. 40
“La diáspora interior” – Carlos Santiago – “El diario”
“Museos del Mundo” – Published by Diario “El País”
“Al Sur del Sur” –“Arte y Antigüedades” publications
“Uruguayos por su nombre” –Miguel Ángel Campodónico – “Fin de Siglo” publishers
“La Creación Silenciosa del Espejo” – María E. Yuguero – “Cuadernos de Marcha”, nr. 119
“Amengual y Pelayo hacen “papelones” en Lima” – María E. Yuguero – Guía del Ocio, 2/96
“Dibujos de un mar que no estaba sereno” -Macarena Langleib – Diario “El Observador”, Sept 2’98
“Mitologías marinas” – Clio Bugel – “Brecha” weekly
“El oficio y la libertad” – María E. Yuguero – “Socio Espectacular” magazine
“El mar caótico” – “Revista 3” – Aug. 14’98
“Del maremagnum al mare nostrum” – Prof. Ángel Kalenberg – “Maremagnum” catalog
“El universo personal” – Jorge Abbondanza – Diario “EL País” – June 1, 2000
“Los tres planos de la seducción” – Jorge Abbondanza -“Inturnos” catalog
“Simbolismo de lo oscuro” – Federico Arregui – “Busqueda” weekly – July 21, ‘01
“De dibujante a pintor” – Nelson Di Maggio – Diario “La República” – July 1, 01
“Comienza el diluvio” – Pablo Thiago Rocca – “Brecha” weekly
“El culto de Amengual” – Miguel Carvajal – Diario “El País”, July 29 ‘01
“De poesía y otras evocaciones afectivas” – María E. Yuguero – “Impromptu” catalog
“Enciclopedia del Uruguay” – Publications of Diario “El Observador”
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