Pablo Atchugarry

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Pablo Atchugarry (born August 23, 1954) is a Uruguayan artist best known for his abstract sculpture work.

His works have been included in numerous major collections, both private and public, and he has hosted more than a hundred solo and collective exhibitions around the world.

Early life and education

Pablo Atchugarry was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, on August 23, 1954. Maria Cristina Bonomi and Pedro Atchugarry Rizzo, his parents, were avid art enthusiasts. Pedro Atchugarry, who left his artistic ambitions to help his family, was trained under the leadership of Uruguayan Constructivist Joaqun Torres-Garca, and his knowledge of the art encouraged him to teach his son's talents and inspire Pablo to take up painting.

At age 11, Atchugarry began exhibiting his artwork, and as he progressed through adolescence, he began to express himself in various styles and materials, such as cement, iron, and wood. He had his first personal exhibition of paintings at the Civic Room in Montevideo in 1972, and he had made his first experiment with sculpture – a horse cast in concrete. He found exhibitions in Brazil and Argentina in the ensuing years as he expanded architectural studies and dropped architectural studies, showing a mixture of abstraction and Constructivist concepts. However, Atchugarry left South America and headed to Europe in 1977.

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Career: 1977–1989

Atchugarry's goal in going to Europe was to study and perfect his craft. He had his first successful showing at an art fair in Copenhagen as early as 1977. He travelled to Spain, France, and Italy, and on his way home, he reconnected with a woman he had never met in Paris. She brought him to Lecco, where he held his first solo Italian show in 1978. His works were on display in a variety of European cities, including Milan, Copenhagen, Paris, Chur, Bergamo, and Stockholm as a result of the show's success.

Atchugarry took up carving marble in 1979, designing his first sculpture in Carrara marble called La Lumiere. In 1982, Carrara's first monumental sculpture was completed, but later that year, he moved to Lecco. He began work on La Pieta, which was created from a single block of marble weighing twelve tons. In Bramantino's Crypt in Milan in 1987, he held his first solo sculpture exhibition, curated by Raffaele de Grada.

Since 1989, Atchugarry's poetic sculptural style has inspired him to manifest himself in monumental works on view in several public spaces in Europe and Latin America.

Career: 1996

He witnessed the installation of the sculpture Semilla de la Esperanza (Seed of Hope) in the monumental sculpture park in Uruguay's government department in late 1996.

The artist founded the Museo Pablo Atchugarry in Lecco, which was inaugurated on September 25, 1999. This museum exhibits works from Atchugarry's entire career, as well as bibliographic data and an archive. In his workshop, which is located next door to the museum, visitors will also have the opportunity to tour him.

The Province of Milan held a retrospective of Atchugarry's "Infinite Evolutions of Marble" during spring 2001, twenty years after he arrived in Italy. He sculpted Obelisk of the Third Millennium, a six-meter-high Carrara marble sculpture for the Italian town of Udine during the same year.

The sculpture Ideali of Atchugarry in Garfagnana marble was unveiled in early 2002 as a salute to Prince Rainier of Monaco's 50th anniversary of his reign; it is on the Avenue Princesse Grace of Monte-Carlo. His Monument to Lecco Labour's Civilization and Culture was unveiled in Lecco in May 2002 as the center of the Caleotto Roundabout in Lecco. This work, which was made from a 33-ton block and a height of 6.10 meters, was created with Carrara marble from Bernini's Bernini variety. In addition, Atchugarry was awarded the Michelangelo Award in Carrara in honor of his contribution as an artist in July 2002.

Sensation of the Infinite was included in the Lercaro Museum's collection in Bologna in 2003. Atchugarry also participated Uruguay in the 50th International Exhibition of the Performing Arts in the Venice Biennale of 2003, with eight sculptures in Carrara marble and Grey Bardiglio marble entitled Dreaming of Peace.

The Berardo Collection in Lisbon, Portugal, in 2005, added to its patrimony Camino Vital, 1999, with a nearly 5-meter tall in Carrara marble. Atchugarry's opening of a new atelier in Punta del Este, Uruguay, where he works during the European winter, was another significant project carried out by the company during 2005.

In January 2007, Atchugarry established the Fundación Pablo Atchugarry in Manatiales, Uruguay. This museum aims to boost the arts by giving artists of all types of disciplines a home in a great location that blends nature and art.

The artist completed the monumental sculpture Cosmic Embrace (2005-2011) in 2011. Hollis Taggart Galleries in New York City held a solo exhibition "Pablo Atchugarry: Heroic Activities" that featured an essay by Jonathan Goodman, a well-known art critic. The Time Square Alliance, a New York City based in New York, selected Atchugarry's sculpture Dreaming New York to be on view in Times Square at the Armory Show Art Fair in New York City in March 2012.

The Catalogo Generale scultura, two volumes edited by Professor Carlo Pirovano, describing every sculpture created by the artist between 1971 and 2013, published in late 2013.

Atchugarry lives and works between Lecco and Manantiales, where he oversees the creation of the Fundación Pablo Atchugarry and the international monumental sculpture park, as well as teaching and promoting art.

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