Milan dedicates a major monographic exhibition to Uruguayan sculptor Pablo Atchugarry

Opening on Oct. 27, 2021 at Milan’s Palazzo Reale, in the Sala delle Cariatidi, is a major monographic exhibition dedicated to the art of Pablo Atchugarry (Montevideo, 1954), the well-known Uruguayan sculptor who has been dividing his time between Italy, the United States and Uruguay since the 1970s.

Entitled Pablo Atchugarry. Life of Matter, the exhibition is open to the public until January 30, 2022; it is promoted and produced by the Municipality of Milan Culture, Palazzo Reale, Skira Editore and Gruppo Euromobil, Zalf, Désirée, and is curated by art critic Marco Meneguzzo, in collaboration with the artist, and realized in the installation by Reggiani for the lighting part.

The exhibition is intended as a tribute to the great career of Atchugarry, a world-renowned sculptor who has participated in numerous exhibitions and whose works are held in the world’s most important collections.

For the past twenty years his work has focused on large marble sculptures, all worked and carved in person by the artist himself; now, in his very latest production, these are giving way to reflections on the sinuous and linear forms of nature, but carved directly into wood or emerging from the trunks of centuries-old olive trees.

In an interview given in 2006 and republished in the catalog, Atchugarry had said, “There are many secrets. I had once written that marble has a subtle and delicate voice, however, if we are attentive and have the patience to listen to it, it tells us different secrets that could be suggestions on how to work it, or how far it can go and what its limits are... So in this reading, one has the task really to listen, to know what part of the surface he will choose, whether he really can take away or leave, before he can actually do it. So these secrets mean to really get into the interiority of the material, and it is then, that one breathes, almost in unison, with the rhythm marked by the marble. So this is a universe.”

On display are more than forty works that refer to different years of his production and that dialogue with the very striking architecture of the Sala delle Cariatidi; the latter still bears the signs of the fire that devastated it during the war.

The exhibition is held in Milan, the first city to be visited by the young Uruguayan artist who had just arrived in Italy in the early 1970s.

Accompanying the exhibition is a catalog and a precious “limited edition” of sixty copies, each containing a wooden sculpture created by the artist, published by Skira publishing house.

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Image: Pablo Atchugarry, Untitled, detail (2015; Portuguese pink marble, 112 x 47 x 26 cm) © Daniele Cortese

Milan dedicates a major monographic exhibition to Uruguayan sculptor Pablo Atchugarry

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