Gonzalo Fonseca

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Torre de los Vientos, sculpture from 1968 in Mexico City.

Gonzalo Fonseca (born July 2, 1922 in Montevideo , Uruguay , † June 11, 1997 in Seravezza , Italy ) was a Uruguayan sculptor and painter .

Life

Fonseca was born the son of the writer and engineer Rodolfo Fonseca in the Uruguayan capital of Montevideo. From 1942 and 1949 he was a student of Joaquín Torres Garcías . Fonseca, who traveled to the pre-Columbian ruins of Bolivia and Peru and also visited archaeological sites in the Mediterranean and the Middle East as a source of inspiration, worked with Lancaster Harding in Syria, among others . He also studied architecture. Fonseca left Uruguay and then lived in Paris until 1952 and settled in New York City in the USA in 1956 . At the end of the 1950s, he received a Guggenheim scholarship and after moving to Manhattan , he lived alternately in the USA and Italy, where he owned a studio near the city of Carrara . For the 1968 Olympic Games , he created the twelve meter high concrete tower Torre de los Vientos . At the Biennale di Venezia in 1990 he represented his home country Uruguay.

Together with his wife Elizabeth Fonseca (née Kaplan), whom he married in the mid-1950s and from whom he was divorced after around two decades, he had four children, the painters Caio Fonseca , Bruno Fonseca (1958-1994), the writer Isabel Fonseca Amis, as well as the designer Quina Fonseca Marvel.

Most important solo exhibitions

  • 1952: Gonzalo Fonseca Paintings, Studio Claudio Matinenghi, Rome
  • 1953: Gonzalo Fonseca Ceramica, Gallery San Marco, Rome
  • 1962: Gonzalo Fonseca, Selected works :, The Portland Museum, Oregon
  • 1970: Gonzalo Fonseca, Recent Works, The Jewish Museum, New York
  • 1974: Gonzalo Fonseca, Galería Conkright, Caracas, Venezuela
  • 1976: Gonzalo Fonseca, Galería Adler / Castillo, Caracas, Venezuela
  • 1977: Sculturi di Gonzalo Fonseca, Galería del Naviglio, Milan
  • 1978: Fonseca, Fiera di Bologna, Italy
  • 1986: Gonzalo Fonseca: Sculpture, Arnold Herstand, New York
  • 1988: Gonzalo Fonseca: Sculpture & Drawings, Arnold Herstand, New York
  • 1989: Fonseca, Sculpture & Drawings, The Arts Club of Chicago, Illinois
  • 1990: Biennale di Venezia, representing Uruguay, Italy
  • 1991: Gonzalo Fonseca: Sabbakhin Sculpture, Arnold Herstand, New York
  • 1994: Mundos de Gonzalo Fonseca, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela

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personal data
SURNAME Fonseca, Gonzalo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Uruguayan sculptor and painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Montevideo , Uruguay
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 1997
Place of death Seravezza , Italy