Oscar Larroca

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Oscar Larroca (born October 21, 1962 in Montevideo , Uruguay) is a Uruguayan artist .

Larroca illustrated catalogs, books, posters and designed record covers. For Uruguayan musicians such as Pollo Píriz he produced video clips and wrote their scripts. Larroca worked as an illustrator for newspapers and advertising agencies. From 1990 to 1999 he was the exclusive illustrator for the entertainment section of the Uruguayan daily El País .

Since 1981 he has participated in numerous exhibitions with his works. He held solo exhibitions in New York , Barcelona , Buenos Aires , Vienna and Paris , among others . He also exposed in Cagnes-sur-Mer in 1986 at the XVIII. International Festival of Painting. In 1990 his art was in Yugoslavia at the XXII. Exhibition of the World Gallery of Cartoons in Skopje . He is also represented in Uruguayan museums and private collections at home and abroad.

In the course of his artistic career, Larroca has received a wide range of awards. In 1981 he received first prize in the exhibition of young artists ( Muestra de Plásticos Jóvenes ). In 1983 the first prize of the Biennale Uruguaya de Expresión Plástica and the second prize at the XXXI followed. Salón Municipal de Artes Plásticas . 1985 he was at the VI. Salón Leonístico de Artes Plásticas de la Juventud and at the XXXIII. Salón Municipal was awarded the first prize. He received one in the following year as part of the Salón de Artes Plásticas del Banco de la República Oriental del Uruguay . In 1988 he won the Almanaque INCA competition . He was able to receive both the Premio Ville de Gilette and the Premio Kokusai Bijutzu Shingikai in 1997 in Nice at the 9th International Grand Prize for Art . Two years later, Larroca was awarded another First Prize at the Obra Gráfica Contemporánea in the IV. Saló Internacional d'Arts Plastiques in Barcelona . In 2003 the "Société Académique d'Éducation e d'Encouragement, Arts-Sciences-Lettres" in Paris awarded him the Medal of Honor. For the Premio Bartolomé Hidalgo he was nominated as a finalist in the category Revelación by the Cámara Uruguaya del Libro based on his book La mirada de Eros: aproximación a la temática erótica en las artes visuales y otros ensayos vinculados a la creación artística . His 2007 publication La suspensión del tiempo: acercamiento a la filosofía de Manuel Espínola Gómez was first mentioned at the National Literature Awards in the category "Art Sample" ( Ensayo de arte ). In 2011 he was awarded the by the Uruguayan Central Bank awarded Premio Figari . Larroca lives in Florida . There he teaches in his own studio and has also been giving courses at the Arte Club in Montevideo since 1998 .

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  1. ^ XVI Premio Figari - Oscar Larroca (Spanish), accessed March 6, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Larroca, Oscar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Uruguayan painter, graphic artist and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Montevideo , Uruguay