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Ignacio Iturria: RECENT WORK

webmaster 30-09-2011

Uruguayan Ignacio Iturria’s most recent production will be staged, beginning October 6, 7, in two galleries of Lima, Peru: the Luis Miró Quesada Garland (Miraflores) Exhibition Hall and the Enlace Arte Contemporáneo (San Isidro) gallery.

Iturria (Montevideo, 1949) studied Art and Graphic Design in his city of birth. His work has been shown in important spaces in Peru, Chile, Argentina, Colombia, Cuba, Puerto Rico, United States, Mexico, Canada, France, Spain, Italy, China and Japan. He has been acknowledged by the Association of Art Critics of Uruguay and was the winner of the Grand Prize at the Cuenca Biennial, Ecuador, in 1994, and also at the 12th San Juan Biennial of Latin American and Caribbean Printmaking, Puerto Rico (1997), among others.

About his work, French art critic Pierre Restany has said: “All of Iturria’s miniaturized characters look familiar. They participate in a promiscuity of backyards or idle lands and share the existential routine of a banal modernity. But their small size allows them to fully access the freedom of spirit and make use of their right to dream (…).”

According to Iturria: … “In painting there is no need for a literal explanation. The thing about painting is that it moves in the space left by words that cannot communicate; it gives humans another language (…) Emphasis has been made lately on art politicization and conceptualization. Today they only talk about the anecdotal. I could “play” at making a conceptual artwork, but I don’t like to be so rational. I do what I do to travel to another dimension: I start painting and forget about myself. Not to return to Ignacio’s, that guy who is such a drag, who has this or that problem. I would have to think of themes while I paint. No, leave me alone, I’ll go the other way.”