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Alejandro
Silveira, Artist
Biography
Alejandro Silveira was born in
Montevideo in 1951.
Since an early age he has been drawing, painting and engraving, and began
to exhibit wood engravings and ink drawings and monotypes in 1972. In that
decade he integrated the movement “el dibujazo”, and since then has
displayed work in several expositions in Uruguay and internationally,
receiving prizes in several categories.
He has studied with teachers of the talla of Luis Solari, Anhelo Hernández,
David Finkebeiner, Rimer Cardillo, Manolo Lima and Florio Parpagnoli.
He worked on the reopening of the National School of Beautiful Arts and in
its first three years of development.
In 1995 he studied visual communication in the Industrial Center of Design
of the Uruguay. Since that time, he has been dedicated to investigating
computer graphic and multimedia languages.
In 1998 exhibited digital engravings that received the prize of the month
in February 1999 in the contest “The better than órbita Starmedia”.
He also created a multimedia piece that received the five star prize of
“Oro and Silver” (Spain).
At present he is working on a series based upon the “candombe”
carnival of the Uruguay.
Address:
Montevideo, Uruguay
Email: lechuza@adinet.com.uy.
Website: http://orbita.starmedia.com/~gaucho20
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