Federico Arnaud

Federico Arnaud (born September 11, 1970 in Salto , Uruguay ) is a Uruguayan visual artist .

From 1988 to 1990 he studied painting and drawing at the Instituto Cultural "Casa de Nuna" in Salto . From 1991 he intensified his studies of painting with Clever Lara until 1994 and sculpture with José María Pelayo until 1997 in Montevideo . He also attended the National College of Fine Arts ( Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes ) of the Universidad de la República from 1992 to 1994 and the Instituto de Profesores Artigas from 1993 to 1994.

In 1994 he exhibited at the Sixth Show of Young Visual Artists ( Sexta Muestra de Plástico Jóvenes ) and won first prize there. His solo exhibition Vestigios followed in 1995 in the Montevidean Museum of Contemporary Art . In the following year his work was part of the exhibition of the United Airlines Prize on Uruguay's Young Art in Maldonado. In 1999 he took part in the Second Mercosur Biennale in Porto Alegre . He also took part in the Seventh Biennale de la Primavera that year. A year later he exhibited at the exhibition on Uruguayan contemporary art ( Arte Contemporáneo Uruguayo ) held in Buenos Aires at the Recoletas cultural center and was also awarded the Second Paul Cézanne Prize in 2000. In the same year his solo exhibition took place at the Museum of American Art in Maldonado . In 2002 the solo exhibition El cuerpo del Pan followed in Besançon, France, at Le Pavé dans la Mare . In the same year he was given an honorary mention at the Salón Nacional de Artes Visuales in Montevideo. Paisajes was the title of another solo exhibition by Arnaud in 2003 in the Sala "Carlos Federico Sáez" of the Uruguayan Ministry of Transport and Construction (MTOP) in Plaza Matriz . Arnaud lives in Montevideo and works there as a lecturer.

literature

• Miguel Ángel Campodónico : Nuevo Diccionario de la Cultura Uruguaya. Librería Linardi y Risso, Montevideo 2003, ISBN 9974-559-31-6 , p. 31.

Web links

• Profile on www.arteuy.com.uy , accessed March 3, 2012
• Profile on www.arteuy.com.uy in the more detailed Spanish-language version , accessed on March 3, 2012
• María E. Yuguero: Federico Arnaud ( Memento from September 5, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), Sala de Arte "Carlos Federico Sáez" of the Ministerio de Transporte y Obras Públicas, Montevideo, status 2003, accessed on October 17, 2019 (Spanish)