Martín Sastre
Martín Sastre (born February 13, 1976 in Montevideo , Uruguay ) is a Uruguayan media artist who works with film, video, sculpture, photography and drawings.
Sastre grew up in his native city. In 2002 he came to Madrid with the help of a scholarship from the Fundación Carolina . There, with the short films of the Iberoamerican trilogy ( La Trilogía Iberoamericana ), his most famous work was made, which was also shown in Germany.
In 2003 he founded the Martin Sastre Foundation for the Super Poor Art . Since then, the foundation has been trying to find sponsors for unknown artists in Latin America under the slogan Adopt a Latin American artist . In 2004 Sastre was awarded the first prize for the best young artist at the renowned ARCO art fair in Madrid. In the same year he was invited to represent Uruguay at the São Paulo Biennial with his video Bolivia 3: Confederation Next .
During the Venice Biennale in 2005 he published his work Diana: The Rose Conspiracy , in which he pretends to have discovered Diana of Wales, who died in an accident in 1997, alive in Montevideo. Also in 2005, with the support of the Goethe Institute and the ACC Gallery of the Autonomen Cultur Centrum Weimar, he brought three students from the Bauhaus University Weimar to Uruguay, who received a grant of 100 US dollars as part of the “Be a Latin American Artist” program. Dollars a month had to survive.
Web links
- Martin Sastre Foundation for the Super Poor Art
- Martín Sastre on kunstaspekte.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from October 12, 2006 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. Art Film Biennale Cologne 2005
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| SURNAME | Sastre, Martin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Uruguayan media artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 13, 1976 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Montevideo , Uruguay |