Artist Profile: Ignacio Iturria

Summary

This week the Neuberger Museum of Art looks back to A Studio in the Gallery: The Playful Universe of Ignacio Iturria, a Fall 2017 retrospective of one of Uruguay’s most accomplished artists.

Background

Iturria is one of the artists featured in Destination: Latin America, the exhibition profiled in last week’s Inside the NEU video.

For more than four decades, Iturria has created work that invites us to view the world with amusement and hope. In his small theatrical stages filled with whimsical people and animals, Iturria creates universes inside of which he transforms found objects and uses trompe-l’oeil effects to play with viewers’ perceptions. The first part of the exhibition featured forty of these paintings illustrating key moments in the artist’s trajectory.

The second part of the exhibition featured a living studio in which the artist worked in collaboration with Purchase College students during a two-month residency; the new works created during this collaboration were added to the retrospective as they were completed. In this video, see Iturria at work in his studio at the Neuberger Museum.

Click on the video title to view in full screen mode.

 

Patrice Giasson e Ignacio Iturria PARTE 1 (12:52)
[Spanish with English subtitles]


Patrice Giasson e Ignacio Iturria PARTE 2 (19:13)
[Spanish with English subtitles]     


A Studio in the Gallery: The Playful Universe of Ignacio Iturria was organized by the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, and curated by Patrice Giasson, the Alex Gordon Curator of Art of the Americas, with the curatorial assistance of Marianelly Neumann. Generous support for this project was provided by the Alex Gordon Estate, Purchase College School of the Arts, the Friends of the Neuberger Museum of Art, the Ministry of Education and Culture of Uruguay, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Uruguay, the Consulate General of Uruguay in New York, Eugenio and Krytzia Minvielle, and the Purchase College Foundation.

Date

July 20, 2020