Lucio Dorr

Lucio Dorr, an artist who in his short years of activity stood out for his talent and energy, has just passed away.

His education as a graphic designer at Universidad de Buenos Aires' Architecture School gave him the means to develop his operations with a painstaking and confident technique. He also learned the carpenter's craft.

Dorr's work, always geared toward geometry and conceptualism, started as two-dimensional and jumped later into three-dimensionality in a variety of modes. The artist was interested in architecture, the urban space, production methods connected to projective disciple and the conceptions of different contemporary art movements. The heights reached by his abstract constructions bore witness o the complexity of his interests and experiences.

Dorr co-directed Duplus, an artist-run space devoted to the diffusion of contemporary art, which operated for five years.

Alongside his artistic practice, Dorr worked as a professor on different subjects at the Architecture School.

Dorr received a First Mention at the Young Art Biennial in 1994, the Federico Klemm Foundation Award in 2005, the Visual Arts Prize given by the Argentine Association of Art Critics in 2006, and the Ignacio Pirovano Young Artist Award in 2007.

His works are now in the collections of the Museo de Arte Moderno, the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano and the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, all in Buenos Aires, and is also part of the Fortabat collection.