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Álvaro Amengual is the winner of B'nai B'rith Uruguay "Fraternidad Award".
It gives 525 ART great pleasure to announce that Alvaro Amengual has been awarded the B’nai B’rith Uruguay “Fraternidad Award” for 2007 in the field of plastic arts.
The "Fraternidad Award" was established in 1983 by B’nai B’rith Uruguay to recognize excellence in the arts. It has been awarded consecutively over the past years in one of four artistic fields: literature, plastic arts, theater and music. In the field of plastic arts the following artists have been awarded this prize: Ernesto Arostegui, Hugo Longa, Nelson Ramos, Wilfredo Díaz Valdez, Octavio Podestá y Pilar González.
We are delighted and praise Alvaro Amengual for winning this prestigious award in recognition of his career and artistic quality. In addition, the famous members that made up the jury stand out: Pilar González, Jorge Abbondanza and Nelson Di Maggio.
This award will be presented in December. On this occasion recent artwork of the artist will be exhibited.
The major component of the Fraternidad Award is an all-expenses paid trip to Israel and Europe, where the winner will enjoy a varied itinerary. In due course we will provide further information.
To see recent artworks of Alvaro Amengual, please click here or on the image.
Javier Abdala´s solo exhibition “LocOtidiano” (Loco_Crazy Cotidiano_ Daily) is now open to the public.
We invite you to visit the Online Version of the show. You will have the chance to enjoy great photos of the artworks and also some details of the pieces.
If you are in Montevideo, you can also visit the exhibition in our gallery, Rincón 487, second floor, that will remain open during October 2007, from 3 to 7 PM, or you can also phone us and make arrangements that suit you.
When Javier Abdala works, he challenges himself to achieve a spontaneous and authentic expression. Since his previous series “Tree Forks”, he has created certain characters like his fantastic bird-human-aviators, refered to unconscious visions of the artist and introduced some ideas about contrapositions like living inside a frame or getting out of the frame. In this new series (Crazy Daily), his work takes a step ahead towards an even fresher and more heartfelt expression, less cerebral, bolder and according to his own definition, “deeper-rooted”. Through seven assemblages within the limits of sculpture, painting, childlike drawing, caricature and informal art, the new Abdala´s characters, still fantastic, show how the artist rebels with anger to the violent environment of our daily lives, but at the same time Abdala’s anger is with the strong and bright colors of the palette and other similar resources to rescue the illusions, the affection, what really matters. The Parcae, angels, saints, bomb droppers, masked or pointy-nosed ones, human skulls and more…but they do not seem to scare, on the contrary they inspire affection.
It is key to pay attention to every detail of these artworks. They are full of interventions in pencil and pastel, as well as recycled objects that allude to the music (jazz); to childlike kind drawings about the "cheer" of life to music; to the handmade mechanics; to time, and more to discover. There are frameworks that categorize characters in a non-conventional way and that allow us to look from the outside in a scale of proximity and remoteness. All in all, there is a balance between the pros and cons of this reality that we have to live. These are not contradictions; they are contrasts because it is a deep-rooted, not a thought-out series.
The seven artworks that belong to the series “LocOtidiano” (Loco_Crazy Cotidiano_Daily) are now for sale online on www.525art.com
We have added a new tool “Gallery of Details” to improve the online views of the pieces. You can find this tool on the description areas of each piece. See the complete series “LocOtidiano” and other Javier Abdala´s artworks.
525 ART announces the recent incorporation of new art work of Martín Verges Rilla.
In a short period of time, since 1994 to date, Martín Verges Rilla has successfully carried out over 50 exhibitions in Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil, USA and Italy, among other countries. He has been awarded on two occasions at the National Salon (National Museum of Visual Arts) and has received the Paul Cézanne 2006 First Prize, among much other recognition. He has taken part in the MERCOSUR Biennial as well as in the Cuenca Biennial (Ecuador).
His works on display in 525 ART are a clear example of his approach to the portrait and its implications. “The son” or “Little engineer” on the one hand, and “Otero” on the other, in small and medium size format, are paradoxical and contradictory faces. Martín Verges Rilla sets in the suspicion in the pictorial world. He opens up room for incredulity, hesitation and speculation. His technical skill and the achievements of his investigation are in view.
Visit Martín Verges Rilla´s artworks.
We have added the “New Additions” section
So as to make your tour round our website much easier, we have added a banner that leads you towards those artists who have most recently joined us and to the new works of artists already in display.
In the near future 525 ART will incorporate José María Pelayo (sculpture) and Javier Gil (drawing and painting); two renowned artists with a vast international career. Their works are displayed in museums and publications, and they are part of private collections in numerous cities worldwide. We’ll keep you informed.
Visit Vladimir Muhvich’s solo exhibition “Intimate Geometry” online.
The exhibition will remain open in the Cabildo of Montevideo until July 1st, 2007. You can visit the online version of the installation.
“…The leitmotiv is a scale model…, with curvilinear ramps and “inhabited” by revealing strips of Japanese paper with xylographic imprints of human heads, bodies or femora. From it we “dwarf” and see its interior (through a video) or we become free-standing observers (the paintings and the engravings)…Clever Lara”.
New sculptures of Eloísa Ibarra’s in 525 ART.
Two small constructions in concrete.
The weight of the material contrasts with the visual lightness. Mobile sculptures of an easy size to handle. Assembling and dismantling, until a suitable shape is found to fit the space.
Visit Eloísa Ibarra´s full portfolio of art works.
New paintings of Ian Lester in 525 ART.
Ian Lester’s new works insinuate the culminations of a process. After his series “Portrait with virus” and “Deserters”, those projected and contaminated faces are already among us and they assume new pictorial risks. The line of the face drawing is green and the red color invades the whole canvas. There is a deserter with virus. We also introduce “Glamour”, a work chosen from among many of the same series still in process in the workshop.
Visit Ian Lester´s full portfolio of art works.
Click on the banner on the right in 525 ART and take advantage of the opportunity to buy works of art with discounts. The special prices are for a limited period of time.
525 ART presents the Eloísa Ibarra’s solo exhibition “PRINTS”.
Visit it until December 15, 2006. Mondays to Fridays, 3 to 7 PM.
The traditional etching process, the contact with the inks, the manual carving of the printing plate, the strain of the presses, relate Eloísa Ibarra to the graphic arts in their oldest craftwork forms.
This way of involving herself at each stage of the process, many times starting out of the preparation of the paper used and continuing up to the final assembly, yields as a result this solid, careful exhibit that 525 ART offers today.
These are etchings that drift away from the proper essence of the technique (which by definition produces identical pieces in a series), in order to reach other plastic art forms, the result being unique pieces. For each print presented, the plates have been inked in a way that cannot be repeated, one for each impression.
The resolute assembly horizontally shows at eye level, a plastically ordered succession of the works. At some points in such sequence, other original versions are shown vertically, in a multiplication of tones and atmospheres.
In three specially chosen works the plates have been canceled; their contribution has ended. Three artist’s boxes, almost sculptural containers, show these plates and cover as well the whole production of the prints, the entire cycle of a finished process.
The language used in this exhibit, consistent with Eloísa Ibarra’s work with other techniques, directly refers to walls, barriers isolating a much treasured inner world, which perhaps, at a different level, function as a metaphor to describe actual reality.
The themes are presented as scenes, snapshots that disclose small parts of a whole, like windows that allow us to have a look at the artist’s complex inner world, where we discover different moods, dreams, imagined landscapes that invite us to a serene contemplation.
The interpretation of these scenes, the linking thereof, writing the script of this show, constitutes the esthetic reaction the artist expects from their ideal spectator.
Visit the online version of the Eloísa Ibarra´s exhibition "PRINTS".
Visit Eloísa Ibarra´s full portfolio of art works.
Álvaro Amengual´s recent art work is now part of 525 ART.
"...his elegiac spaces show, real or intangible, the presence of man,…, his portraits acquire new significance in irony …, a fine humorist, who knows weaknesses...". (María E. Yuguero).
See Álvaro Amengual´s full portfolio of art works.
Javier Alonso’s recent work is now part of 525 ART. Graphic Arts, Drawing and Paintings. On the artist’s words “I am interested in art as a process and as an experience… My intention is always to reformulate concepts, not to remain aside…”
See Javier Alonso´s full portfolio of art works.
Jaime Tobella work is now part of 525 ART. An abstract and “extremely” materic painting, that does not tell the story at the first sight. Opposing elements, intimacy vs what is foreign, constant motion, the risk of living, nature and weather.
See Jaime Tobella´s full portfolio of art works.
Gastón Izaguirre´s work is now part of 525 ART. An artist that exhibits, “…that ambiguity of shapes and colors that govern my life.”. Figures, attitudes, feelings.
See Gastón Izaguirre´s full portfolio of art works.
Alejandro Turell´s solo exhibition “C14” was recently opened to the public at the Cabildo de Montevideo.
525 ART invites to visit it. The exhibition will be installed online on our website during the next week.
See Alejandro Turell´s full portfolio of art works.
525 ART recomend to visit the recently opened Collectible Exhibition - Álvaro Amengual, Gustavo Fernández, Javier Gil y José Ma. Pelayo - in honor of Freddie Faux, Master and Teacher. Curated by María E Yugero. Sala Sáez. MTOP. Montevideo.
525 ART presented the Ian Lester´s solo exhibition “The Deserters”
Mixed techniques on white paper in three formats displayed in groups directly on a white wall.
“White is emptiness, hospital, silence, office, austerity, depersonalization of things…
Deserters are of a multiple nature, they act together and we do not know whether they are men or women. They are just there; they are beings in the world.
Eyes that convey an expression from the contents because the shape is barely suggested. Sometimes only one eye as a sign.
Strong mouths. Drastically drawn lips.
Rigid necks. Mutilated ears. Unfinished elements, and not because something is missing...they are simply opened.
Multiple resources that contribute to the whole.”
Since his first solo exhibition in 2001, Ian Lester’s work shows its unique sign, a kind of repeated face or character, a signifier of “the different one” of “the one that disagrees”, Since the series in which he pays homage to the “Forgotten dandies of the Romanticism” or his work of “projected portraits invaded by viruses”, the “faces” Ian Lester creates are not only what they seem, they are not identikit pictures although from the formal point of view they remind us of passport-size pictures, because they are simulated, they do not express any difference on purpose. His characters refer to everyone, or to many, he intends to give value to “certain” attitude and expression.
As from 2001, Ian Lester has been awarded the First Prize at the Municipal Salon of Plastic Arts, Montevideo, Uruguay; a scholarship for a workshop and exhibition of Spanish and Latin American painters, organized by the Community of Madrid, Recinto Ferial, Madrid, Spain; an Honorable Mention at the Assembly of Young Plastic Artists, Montevideo, Uruguay and was invited to the exhibition organized by the Provisional Center of Plastic Arts and Design, Havana, Cuba.
In this new series, Ian Lester is also interested in formal aspects. "The Deserters" is an attempt to give a new value to white paper itself, not as opposed to the canvas. He says he has a very special relationship with paper that allows him more spontaneous strokes that are not easier but more fluid, and also because paper is more connected with icons and illustrations. It is adequate for the pictorial atmosphere he proposes.
In a third group "The Deserters-clowns", they become harlequins or perhaps circus characters become deserters. Red appears and with it certain warmness too, rigid necks become costumes, bandage stains become make-up and tight lips suggest a smile. For Ian Lester it is inevitable to go back to homage always. These circuses, popular ones, are interesting for him because “they are people who have deserted from more conventional ways of life, they must make people laugh, they must amuse people. They are disfigured but they try to keep their dignity, despite their disguises”.
See Ian Lester´s full portfolio of art works.
Héctor Laborde´s work is now part of 525 ART. Series “Motherhood", “Interior-Exterior”, “Figures” "Characters", “Relations".
See Héctor Laborde´s works of art, currently available.
Gustavo Fernández. The work "Artist's book – free beliefs" is now part of 525 ART.
This work was included among Uruguayan art pieces sent to Havana Biennial in 1991.
See Gustavo Fernández´s other works of arte.
-Sebastián Alonso, Javier Abdala and Alejandro Turell show their works in "Espacio y Frecuencia, La Sensación Visual del Sonido" (Space and Frequence, Visual Sensation of Sound), at the National Museum of Visual Arts, Montevideo.
-With Sandra Marroig as image director, Federica Folco´s “Not only dance" was shown at El Tinglado theater, Montevideo.
-Michael Bahr is exhibiting the installation DE UN DIA at the Goethe Institut, Montevideo.
-Gustavo Fernández is exhibiting his work in El Molino de Pérez together with Marcelo Urtiaga.
-Alejandro Turell and Eloísa Ibarra were selected for the "Ibero-American triennial exhibition of small format engravings" organized by Xilon Argentina, to be held at the Eduardo Sívori museum, Buenos Aires.
-Vladimir Muhvich and Alejandro Turell took part in the collective exhibition "Arrogance and Passion", whose curator was Jacqueline Lacasa, at the Subte Municipal, Montevideo, in June, 2006.
-A sculpture by Eloísa Ibarra was selected for the contest organized by the Alfredo Zitarrosa foundation.
-We recommend the publication “Porno Paisaje presenta Alexina B”
(Porno landscape introduces Alexina B) by Sebastián Alonso and Martín Craciun.