Fernando Foglino

Uruguay

Born in 1976 in Uruguay. Lives and works in Montevideo Poet and visual artist. Trained at the Faculty of Architecture UDELAR between 1994 and 2006. Throughout these last 10 years of activity in the visual arts, it has carried out more than 50 exhibitions, group and solo shows, in museums all over the country and abroad. His works are part of public and private collections.
He has carried out artistic residencies in Berlin, Paris, Beijing and Antofagasta. During July 2020 he has been selected for an artistic residency in viafarini Milan, Italy. He got 49th Montevideo Prize of Visual Arts in 2019.  

武蔵野美術大学大学院修了。
80年代の活動当初から鉄という素材に魅了され、溶断と溶接を繰り返しながら作品を制作している。
素材本来の硬質感や重量感、彫刻＝塊という概念からも解放され、空間を変容させていく。
“場”を深く観察し、可視、不可視に関わらずそこに存在するものを取り込み、
独自の世界を構築する。
近年は石膏、ガラスなど異素材の作品も発表。
主な受賞歴に、芸術選奨文部大臣新人賞、毎日芸術賞、中原悌二郎賞。

Born in 1976 in Uruguay. Lives and works in Montevideo Poet and visual artist. Trained at the Faculty of Architecture UDELAR between 1994 and 2006. Throughout these last 10 years of activity in the visual arts, it has carried out more than 50 exhibitions, group and solo shows, in museums all over the country and abroad. His works are part of public and private collections.
He has carried out artistic residencies in Berlin, Paris, Beijing and Antofagasta. During July 2020 he has been selected for an artistic residency in viafarini Milan, Italy. He got 49th Montevideo Prize of Visual Arts in 2019.