BIOGRAPHY
Pablo Atchugarry was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, on August 23rd, 1954. His father Pedro was a great art lover who grasped the aptitude and interests that Pablo already manifested in his childhood, stimulating him to take up the challenge of painting
He started showing his work at the age of eleven and, as an adolescent, soon started feeling the need to express himself in other forms and materials, such as sculpture in cement and compositions in metal and wood, although without neglecting his painting. His first personal exhibition was held in the Subte Municipal in Montevideo in 1972, followed two years later by his first exhibition abroad in Buenos Aires. At the end of the seventies, he made several trips to France, Spain and Italy, where in 1978 he held his first personal exhibition in Lecco.
In 1979, he discovered marble as a thoroughly fascinating material, sculpting his first piece in Carrara, “La Lumière”. Although he returned regularly to his native land, in 1982 he decided to settle in Lecco when he received the commission for his first large sculpture, a Pietà. Since 1989, Pablo has expressed himself through monumental works, which are now situated in various public and private spaces in Europe and America. In 1996, his Semilla de la Esperanza (Seed of Hope), was installed in the sculpture garden of the Uruguayan Government Building.
In the spring of 2001, the Province of Milan organized a retrospective of the last ten years of Atchugarry’s work in Palazzo Isimbardi, in the same year "The Obelisk of the Third Millennium" was inaugurated; a sculpture in white Carrara marble, it stands six metres high in the town of Manzano, Province of Udine. In early 2002, Atchugarry’s sculpture Ideali in Garfagnana marble, was given to Prince Rainier of Monaco as a tribute to the 50th anniversary reign. It won the national concourse “Monumento alla civiltá e cultura del lavoro Lecchese”, was inaugurated in Lecco in May 2002, and it was carved from a 33 ton Carrara block and stands 6.10 metres tall. In July 2002, Atchugarry received the Michelangelo Award in Carrara, in recognition of his artistic career, the same year he created the sculpture “ Ideali". He participated in the 50th International Exhibition of the Visual Arts -Venice Biennale in 2003 with an installation entitled "Dreaming of Peace". In 2005 he exhibited at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes of Buenos Aires. The renowned Groeninge Museum in Bruges, Belgium organized an exhibition in June of 2006 with works from private international collections.
During the year 2007 he realized the most great sculpture “On the way of light”, 8 metres high. The same year an important itinerant show “The plastic space of light” presented by Luca Massimo Barbero was organized in Brazil, it began in Brasilia at the Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, followed to Museu Brasileiro de escultura of São Paulo, and at the Museu Oscar Niemeyer of Curitiba, finished in March 2008 at the Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales of Montevideo, where exhibited sculptures created during the last fifteen years in different kind of marbles and dimensions. One of most recent projects was open in 2006 a new atelier at El Chorro ( Maldonado),Uruguay, where he works during the European winter and where the Pablo Atchugarry Foundation was established in the year 2007 with the intention to disseminate fine arts and to create a place of meeting for artists of all kind of disciplines
Pablo now lives and works in Lecco, Lake Como, Italy.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016 Albemarle Gallery, London
Boon Gallery, Knokke - Heist
Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York
2015 Mercati di Traiano: Musei dei Fori Imperiali, Roma
Expo 2015, Uruguayan Pavillion, Milano
Paulo Darzé galeria de arte, Salvador
Costantini Art Gallery, Milano
Art Stage Singapore, Singapore
2014 Palazzo del Parco, Diano Marina
Bologna Fiere SH Contemporary, Shanghai
Museu Brasileiro de Escultura, Sao Paulo
Arte fiera, Bologna
Albemarle Gallery, London
2013 Fundacion Pablo Atchugarry, Manantiales
Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York
Museo MIIT, Torino
2012 Albemarle Gallery London
2011 Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York
2010 Callan Contemporary, New Orleans
Albemarle Gallery London
2008 Albemarle Gallery London
Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales Montevideo
2007 Museu Oscar Niemeyer Curitiba
Museu Brasileiro de Escultura São Paulo
Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil Brasilia
Lagorio Arte Contemporanea Brescia
Frey Norris Gallery San Francisco
2006 Albemarle Gallery London
Groeninge Museum Bruges
Galeria Sur Punta del Este - La Barra
Gary Nader Fine Art Miami
2005 Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes Buenos Aires
Park Ryu Sook Gallery Seoul
Gary Nader Fine Art Miami
2004 Galeria Tejeria Loppacher Punta del Este - Uruguay
Galleria Rino Costa Valenza
Villa Monastero Varenna
Albemarle Gallery London
2003 Fondation Veranneman Kruishoutem
50° Biennale di Venezia - Padiglione dell'Uruguay Venezia
Fondazione Abbazia di Rosazzo Rosazzo - Udine
Galleria Les Chances de l'Art Bolzano
2002 Ellequadro Documenti Genova
2001 Palazzo Isimbardi Milano
Albemarle Gallery London
Fondazione Il Fiore Firenze
2000 Galerie Le Point Monte Carlo
1999 Inter-American Development Bank Washington
1998 Ellequadro Documenti Genova
Fondation Veranneman Kruishoutem
1997 Centro Fatebenefratelli Valmadrera
1996 Valente Arte Contemporanea Finale Ligure
1994 Galleria Nuova Carini Milano
1992 Galerie L'Oeil Bruxelles
1991 Galleria Carini Milano
1989 Biblioteca Civica di Lecco Lecco
1988 Galleria Carini Milano
Museo Salvini Coquio Trevisago
1983 Villa Manzoni Lecco
1982 Galeria Felix Caracas
Galleria Visconti Lecco
Galleria Comuale Monza
1981 Ibis Gallery Malmo
Galerie L'Art et la Paix Paris
Galerie L'Art et la Paix Paris
Galeria la Gruta Bogota
1979 Maison de l'Amerique Latine Paris
1978 Galleria Visconti Lecco
Galleria La Colonna Como
1974 Subte Municipal Montevideo
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016 Art Rio, Rio de Janeiro
Seattle Art Fail, Seattle
Point Art Monaco, Monaco
Art Cologne, Köln
Sp-Arte, São Paulo
Tefaf, Maastricht
The Armory Show, New York
Arte Fiera, Bologna
Art Stage Singapore, Singapore
Este Arte, Punta del Este
2015 Art Basel, Miami
Art Miami, Miami
Fiac, Paris
Art Toronto, Toronto
Art Bo, Bogotà
Art Rio, Rio de Janeiro
Art Internationa, Istanbul
Point Art Monaco, Monaco
Art Marbella, Marbella
Art Miami, New York
Sp-Arte, São Paulo
Parc, Lima
Art Cologne, Köln
Mi Art, Milano
Art Basel, Hong Kong
The Armory Show, New York
Tefaf, Maastricht
Arte Fiera, Bologna
2014 Art Basel, Miami
Art Miami, Miami
Fiac, Paris
Art Bo, Bogota
Art Rio, Rio de Janeiro
Arte Ba, Buenos Aires
Parc, Lima
SP Arte, Sao Paulo
Art Basel, Hong Kong
Black - Galleria Dep Art, Milano
Mi Art, Milano
The Armory Show, New York
Tefaf, Maastricht
Arte Fiera, Bologna
2013 Art Basel, Miami
Art Miami, Miami
Pinta, New York
Fiac, Paris
Expo Chicago, Chicago
Art Bo, Bogota
HFAF, Houston
Art Rio, Rio de Janeiro
FIA, Caracas
Art South Hampton, South Hampton
Art Brussels, Brussels
Arte Ba, Buenos Aires
SP Arte, Sao Paulo
The Armory Show, New York
Bianco Italia - Tornabuoni Art, Paris
Art Basel, Hong Kong
Tefaf, Maastricht
Arte Fiera, Bologna
2012 Art Basel, Miami
Art Miami, Miami
Expo Chicago, Chicago
HFAF, Houston
Art Rio, Rio de Janeiro
SP Arte, Sao Paulo
Arte Ba, Buenos Aires
The Armory Show, New York
Tefaf, Maastricht
Arte Fiera, Bologna
2011 Art Basel, Miami
Fiac, Paris
Arte Ba, Buenos Aires
SP Arte, Sao Paulo
Legacy Gallery, Panama
Tefaf, Maastricht
Arte Fiera, Bologna
2010 Fiac, Paris
SP Arte, Sao Paulo
Tefaf, Maastricht
Arte Fiera, Bologna
2009 Arte Ba, Buenos Aires
ArteFiera, Bologna
2008 Arco, Madrid
2007 Art First, Bologna
Arco, Madrid
Galeria Sur, Punta del Este
2006 Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York
Arte Fiera, Bologna
Art London, London
Gallery Bienvenu, New Orleans
2005 Arte Fiera, Bologna
Art Basel, Miami
2004 Art London, London
Miart, Milano
Arco, Madrid
Arte Fiera, Bologna
2003 Arco, Madrid
Arte Fiera, Bologna
2002 Galerie Le Point Monte Carlo
Tefaf Maastricht
Arco Madrid
Artefiera Bologna
2001 Tefaf Maastricht
Arco Madrid
Artefiera Bologna
2000 Xenobio Exhibition - a cura di Idehiro Ikegami Bologna
Tefaf Maastricht
Arco Madrid
Artefiera Bologna
1999 Orion Art Gallery Bruxelles
Art Basel Basel
Tefaf Maastricht
Arco Madrid
Artefiera Bologna
1998 Biennale di Aldo Roncaglia San Felice Sul Panaro
Scultura 98 Sondrio
Castle of Bourglinster Luxembourg
Artefiera Bologna
1997 Gildo Pastor Center Monte Carlo
Artefiera Bologna
1996 Palazzo Ducale Genova
1995 Ellequadro Documenti Genova
1994 Venice Design Art Gallery Venezia
4a Biennal de Sculpture Contemporain Passy
1992 Palazzo Crepadona Belluno
9° Salon d'Art Contemporain Bourg en Bresse
1991 Contemporary Art International Milano
1990 Simposio di sculture - Castello di Nelson Bronte
1989 IX Bienal de Arte Internacional - Chile Valparaiso
1988 Ternate Sculture Ternate
1987 Esibizione Internazionale di sculture Castellanza
Esibizione di Arte Sacra - San Francesco Como
Esibizione Internazionale "Como Illustrazioni" Como
7a Esibizione d'Arte Sacra - Basilica San Sempliciano Milano
1984 XIX Esibizione Internazionale di Scultura Legnano
1a Esibizione di piccole sculture Castellanza
1983 3a Esibizione d'Arte Sacra - Basilica San Sempliciano Milano
1980 Taormina concorso (Primo Premio) Taormina
VII original Drawing Biennal Rijeca
1979 "Alessandro Volta" Pittura internazionale Como
1977 XL Salón Nacional - Premio Adquisicion Montevideo
1976 Galeria Aramayo Montevideo
Salón de Miniescultura Montevideo
1975 XVI International Salón Paris-Sud Juvisy
1974 XXII Salón Municipal Montevideo
1973 XXVI Salón Nacional de Artes Plásticas Montevideo
1972 XXVI Salón Municipal de Artes Plásticas Montevideo