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Anthological exhibition, works from 1969 to 2024Opening Thursday december 26, from 6pmCurated by Manuel Neves We must return to the forest which is the source...

META MIAMI and the General Consulate of Uruguay in Miami, with the support of the Ministry of Education and Culture of Uruguay, are pleased to...

Retrospective exhibition, works from 1969 to 2024 Curated by Manuel Neves Opening on Saturday 7 September 2024 from 3pm We must return to the forest...

This exhibition pays tribute to Dumas Oroño and Mercedes Antelo for their commitment to artistic education. It makes visible the institutional frameworks that made possible...

Today, José Gamarra is known all over the world. His paintings can be found at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, at the Bibliothèque de France, etc. But also at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, at the National Museum of Uruguay, in Africa, etc. Yet when asked, Gamarra never really thought about building his reputation. He preferred to concentrate on his art, letting things happen. This was without counting on the support of three key figures: his gallery owner Albert Loeb; a famous art critic, Philippe Dagen; and finally some collectors who fell in love with his work at first sight. Among them, Heber Perdigon is the author of a monograph on the painter.

Through his painting, José Gamarra addresses many of the themes explored by the history of modern painting. During his training years, he painted astonishingly realistic portraits of his comrades. At the end of the 1950s, under the influence of artists such as Paul Klee, he developed an abstract signography. From the 1960s, a brighter and more playful period began for Gamarra, under the influence of Andy Warhol's pop art. At the turn of the 1970s/80s, Gamarra reached maturity by painting images of a paradise in decline. Thus, the painter's forests are beautiful and luxuriant, certainly. However, they include the warning signs of a coming catastrophe, causing diffuse unease.

The exhibition José Gamarra – Antología, originally presented at the National Museum of Visual Arts of Uruguay (MNAV), offers an overview of almost eight decades of the career of one of the most important artists born in the neighboring nation, an unavoidable reference in the visual arts, not only in their country of origin, but beyond its borders.

With more than six hundred works, Before América: Original Sources in Modern Culture presents a long process based on sources dating back to before Europeans...

The exhibition “José Gamarra – Antologia”, originally presented at the National Museum of Visual Arts of Uruguay (MNAV), offers an overview of almost eight decades...

"Histoires de papier", is a French-Spanish bilingual book, it brings together 300 unpublished works on paper: color, black and white by the painter José Gamarra. The art critic Christine Frérot has contributed a text on Gamarra's drawings. There are other texts analytical on the painter's drawings. Each work is accompanied by a technical sheet: format, technique and year of creation. The book contains a biography of the painter, his individual and collective exhibitions and a bibliography.