Carlos Páez Vilaró
Carlos Páez Vilaró (born November 1, 1923 in Montevideo , † February 24, 2014 in Punta Ballena ) was a Uruguayan artist who worked as a painter , sculptor , writer , composer and architect .
Life
He was born in Montevideo in 1923 to Miguel Páez and Rosa Vilaró. During his youth he moved to Buenos Aires in neighboring Argentina . There he began training in a printing company in the districts of Barracas and Avellaneda . He returned to Uruguay in the late 1940s and developed an interest in Afro-Uruguayan culture. In addition, he devoted himself to the study of the Comparsa and the Candombe , as well as the topics that were closely connected with life in the Mediomundo , a predominantly black Conventillo Montevideos. During this time Páez Vilaró created many caricatures , composed candombes for the "lubolas comparsas", conducted their choirs and decorated their drums. In this way he wanted to counteract prevailing misunderstandings. The motifs of his caricatures and paintings were funerals or Christmas motifs, but also marketplaces, dances in the moonlight or washerwomen.
After this artistic phase he moved to Brazil ; he then traveled to the African continent as well as Haiti and the Dominican Republic . During this period he created hundreds of works of art and organized many exhibitions. During this time he also met important artists such as Pablo Picasso , Salvador Dalí , Jean Cocteau , Giorgio De Chirico , Andy Warhol and Alexander Calder . He also spent some time with Albert Schweitzer in Lambaréné among lepers .
In connection with his French exhibition Dahia , he made a documentary called Batouk with the director Jean-Jacques Manigot and the poet Aimé Césaire , which was shown at the end of the Cannes Film Festival.
On the occasion of the opening ceremony of the United Buddy Bears exhibition on Plaza Independencia in Montevideo in 2009, Páez Vilaró was asked by the President of Uruguay, Tabaré Vázquez , if he would like to design a new bear for Uruguay. Despite his age of 85, he spontaneously accepted. Three days later the huge, still unpainted Buddy Bear was in his studio. This bear, which he then designed and representing Uruguay, has accompanied the international art project The Art of Tolerance around the world since then .
In addition, he created and modeled the Casapueblo with his own hands on the cliffs on the edge of the Río de la Plata in Punta Ballena . He bought a piece of land there in 1958 and first built a small wooden house. Páez Vilaró finally settled in Casapueblo, where his workshop is located in the large dome of the building, which is now partially used as a hotel.
Páez Vilaró is the father of Carlos "Carlitos" Páez Rodriguez, one of the survivors of the crash of the Fuerza-Aérea-Uruguaya flight 571 (“Miracle of the Andes”) on October 13, 1972. Páez Vilaró was the third marriage to the one from Germany born Annette Deussen, with whom he had three children.
Nine days before his death, Páez Vilaró took part one last time in the carnival celebrations, the Desfile de Llamadas , together with the Comparsa C 1080 in Montevideo, which he could not visit in previous years due to health problems. He announced that this would be his last participation. After Páez Vilaró died at the age of 90, his body was taken to the Palacio Legislativo at the instigation of the Ministry of Education and Culture , where the public wake was to take place the following day and later the burial at the Cementerio del Norte.
Web links
- Official website of Carlos Páez Vilaró
- Literature by and about Carlos Páez Vilaró in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin
- Literature by and about Carlos Páez Vilaró in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Individual evidence
- ^ Muere al artista uruguayo Carlos Páez Vilaró
- ↑ United Buddy Bear by Carlos Páez Vilaró
- ↑ "Volcar en colores una fuerza juvenil" ( Memento of the original from February 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish) in El País , accessed February 24, 2014
- ↑ Barrio Sur, Palermo y Casapueblo (Spanish) at www.montevideo.com.uy of February 24, 2014, accessed on February 24, 2014
- ↑ Fallece el artista plástico Carlos Páez Vilaró ( Memento of the original February 28, 2014 Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link is automatically inserted and not yet tested. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish) from www.elnuevoherald.com from February 24, 2014, accessed on February 24, 2014
- ↑ Páez Vilaró velado en el Parlamento - Con honores (Spanish) on www.montevideo.com.uy of February 24, 2014, accessed on February 24, 2014
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Páez Vilaró, Carlos |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Uruguayan artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 1, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Montevideo , Uruguay |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 24, 2014 |
| Place of death | Punta Ballena , Uruguay |