1975 | He was born in Montevideo where he lives and works
¿The nature of my work is introspective-prospective. I link art with science from my subjectivity. I seek relations in my experience studying of these areas of knowledge. During my search for fossils, my travels as an investigator for the National Institute of Fisheries, my studies at the School of Dentistry, as a student and teacher in Lara¿s Workshop and the National School of Fine Arts, and also as an Artist, I reflect on the processes of these disciplines. I try to link together common questions and create metaphors and analogies, im¿possible versions of the surrounding reality we learn. Strategies in order to attempt to ¿digest¿ the quantity of visual information we are subject to. I feel that only in this way the human being¿artist who lives and collects what he studies gets to go deeper as for sensitivity in the contents and the essence of things related to him and to his time¿. (Alejandro Turell)
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
After four years of university studies in the area of sciences, he entered the National School of Fine Arts.
He also attended Javier Nieva´s (sculpture and drawing) y Lara´s (painting and etching) Workshops.
He taught at the National School of Fine Arts and at Clever Lara´s Workshop.
EXHIBITIONS AND AWARDS.
- 2005 ¿Three Artists From the South¿, Kerckhoff Art Gallery, UCLA, USA. - 2005 Exhibition ¿Paul Cézanne Prize¿, National Museum of Visual Arts, Montevideo, Uruguay.
- 2005 ¿Trofós¿-Individual- Cultural Center, Dodecá, Montevideo, Uruguay.
- 2004 Third Prize, ¿Paul Cézanne¿, Embassy of France, Montevideo, Uruguay.
- 2003 ¿Estampa de Grabadores¿ (Etching artists´ work), Ministry of Transport and Public Works, Montevideo, Uruguay.
- 2003 1st Prize, Unión Latina Contest for Young Talents, Montevideo, Uruguay.
- 2003 Plastic Arts, CC Ciudad de San Felipe, Uruguay Cultural Foundation for the Arts (UCFFA), Washington DC, USA.
- 2002 Collective exhibition, Vasseur Institute, Santa Lucía, Uruguay.
- 2002 1st Prize, 50th National Salon of Visual Arts, Montevideo, Uruguay.
- 2002 Exhibition, 50th National Salon, National Museum of Visual Arts, Montevideo, Uruguay.
- 2002 Mural Painting with Clever Lara, CC Ciudad de San Felipe, Montevideo, Uruguay.
- 2001 Etching Exhibition, within the framework of the ¿Rembrandt¿ exhibition, National Museum of Visual Arts, Montevideo, Uruguay.
- 2001 2nd Prize, 49th National Salon of Visual Arts, Montevideo, Uruguay. - 2001 ¿Obra Gráfica¿ (Graphic Work) -Individual- Vasseur Institute, Santa Lucía, Uruguay.
- 2001 Selected artist in the ¿Something Special¿ Contest, Molino de Pérez, Montevideo, Uruguay.
- 2001 Selected artist, 49th National Salon, National Museum of Visual Arts, Montevideo, Uruguay.
- 2000 Honorable Mention, B´nai B´rith contest, Montevideo, Uruguay.
- 2000 ¿Grupo Aguafuerte¿, Molino de Pérez, Montevideo, Uruguay.
- 1999 Honorable Mention, Phillips Contest for Young Talents, Montevideo, Uruguay.
- 1999 Exhibition ¿Amigos del grabado¿ (Etching friends), Libertad Libros, Montevideo, Uruguay.
- 1998 ¿La Clínica¿ (The Clinic), Sala Cinemateca, Montevideo, Uruguay.
- 1997 Collective exhibition ¿Taller Nieva ¿ (Nieva Workshop), La Spezia, Montevideo, Uruguay.