If you are traveling to Uruguay, you MUST visit the Museo Gurvich in Montevideo. Located on the Plaza Matriz at 1377 Ituzaingó. The museum features the work of José Gurvich, a Uruguayan artist who lived a very brief life, dying in 1974 at age 47. He was also one of the more prominent members of the Taller Torres-García, the collective, workshop, and art nursery of the seminal Uruguayan Constructivist, Joaquin Torres-García. If you have ever wondered whence Fernando Botero, the Colombian artist who has graced the Denver Performing Arts Center with a wonderful statue, you need look no further than some of Gurvich’s drawings and paintings from the late 1950s and 1960s.
Gurvich worked in many mediums and his bas-reliefs are stunning.
I cannot say enough about the ocean of art created south of our border, and I am not just talking about Freda Kahlo. You owe it to yourself to seek out some of this work.
The museum’s website is http://www.museogurvich.org/
Tags: Fernando Botero, Joaquin Torres-García, Jose Gurvich, Montevideo, Taller Torres-Garcia, Uruguay
