Gladys Afamado
Gladys Afamado de Sans (born May 24, 1925 in Montevideo , Uruguay ) is a Uruguayan artist and writer.
Afamado is a graduate of the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes . There she was a student of Domingo Bazzurros and Adolfo Pastors . She learned pottery from 1954 to 1955 as part of a commercial workshop and in 1960 attended a related course with Duncan Quintela . She received screen printing lessons from Rimer Cardillo in 1975 . After studying semiotics with Jorge Medina Vidal from 1981 to 1982 , she went to Spain in 1984 with a scholarship obtained from a competition and attended a handmade paper course in Capellades . From 1965 to 1985 she worked as a graphic designer for the Montevidean Club de Grabado . The multiple award-winning artist has held numerous exhibitions of her own in Uruguay, Peru, Colombia, Belgium and elsewhere since 1978. Her works could also be seen at factory shows and joint exhibitions around the world. From 1987 to 1997 she also performed the solo concert Canción e imagen together with her sister, the singer and writer Ethel Afamado . She also published several books of poetry. She is also active in the field of digital art and in this context was part of the book or CD-ROM from Akenaton published in France in 1999 under the title Un notre web .
Exhibitions (excerpt)
Solo exhibitions
- 1975: El Taller Gallery , Montevideo
- 1978: Partes Gallery , Medellín, Colombia
- 1984: Gallery 9 , Lima, Peru
- 1985: Galerie Vezeley , Montevideo
- 1991: Del Correo Viejo Gallery , Montevideo
- 1998: small graphic retrospective in Sala Vaz Ferreira , Montevideo
Group exhibitions
- 1968: Biennale of the Casa de las Américas in Havana, Cuba
- 1983: 1st Bienal de Grabado , Montevideo
- 1986: 5th Cali Biennial , Colombia
- 1988: 1st Triennial of Chamalières , France
- 1990: Estandartes de la libertad , Paris
- 1990: Diez Uruguayos , Bremen, Germany
- 1993: 1st Maastricht Biennale , Netherlands
- 1994: 3rd Triennial of Chamalières , France
- 2000: Biennale of Digital Art , Sarcelles , France
- 2004: El Arte en la Piedra , Montevideo Shopping , Montevideo
- 2005: VII Salon de Arte Digital , Havana, Cuba
- 2005: Salón del Futbol , Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales (MNAV), Montevideo
- 2006: II. Bienal do Gravura , Ceará , Brazil
Publications
- 1978: Signos vitales
- 1983: El perejil y sus adyacencias
- 1989: No espero respuesta
- 1995: Por los siglos de los siglos
- 1997: En la casa de la espera
Awards (excerpt)
- 1966: First graphics prize at the Salón Nacional
- 1968: Mention of the Casa de las Américas
- 1983: Prize for graphics combined with a scholarship for Spain
- 1983: Inca Painting Prize
- 1986: Premio Adquisición, Mini Print, Cadaqués , Spain
- 1996: First prize of the Uruguayan Ministry of Education and Culture (MEC) in the "Unpublished" category for En la casa de la espera
- 2000: Premio Morosoli
- 2005: Second Prize Mosto & RojasArte Arte Digital Internacional, Argentina
literature
- Nuevo Diccionario de la Cultura Uruguaya by Miguel Ángel Campodónico , Librería Linardi y Risso, 2003, p. 14 f.
Web links
- CV ( memento of October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on www.mtop.gub.uy (Spanish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales. Retrieved January 9, 2019 (Spanish).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Afamado, Gladys |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Afamado de Sans, Gladys (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Uruguayan artist and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 24, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Montevideo , Uruguay |