Margaret Whyte
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Born | Montevideo, Uruguay | 21 February 1940
Occupation | Artist |
Years active | 1972–present |
Awards | Figari Award (2014) |
Website | www |
Margaret Whyte (born 21 February 1940) is a Uruguayan visual artist.[1]
Career[]
Margaret Whyte began her artistic activity in 1972 at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Montevideo. She studied with , , Amalia Nieto, Rimer Cardillo, , and .[2] She has been a member of the (FAC) since its inception.[3]
Her work includes paintings, soft sculptures, installations, and interventions.[2] Whyte evokes the memory of the materials she uses – fragments of dresses, tablecloths, and bedspreads bring an intense color to her textile works in which she questions the ideals of beauty and their rituals – as a way to revalue the aesthetic independent of the beautiful.
Her assemblages are accumulations and layers of cut and torn, wrapped, tied, and sewn objects which propose a reflection on the situation of women, beauty, fashion, and their commercial logic.[3]
In 2014 she received the Figari Award in recognition of her career. The jury, composed of , Lacy Duarte, and , cited the extreme uniqueness of her works and the intergenerational reference that she represents in the Uruguayan art world.[4]
Exhibitions[]
- Pinturas, Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC), Montevideo, 1992
- Las cosas mismas, Juan Manuel Blanes Museum, Montevideo, 1995
- Misterios y ritos, Museo del Gaucho y la Moneda, Montevideo, 1996
- Cajas de Petri, Sala Vaz Ferreira, Montevideo, 1999
- Espacios medios, Molino de Pérez, Montevideo, 2001
- Cuerpos atávicos, Colección Engelman-Ost, 2003[5]
- Hasta que duela, Cabildo de Montevideo, 2003
- Pliegues, [2] , 2007
- Kanga, intervention, CCE elevator, Montevideo, 2008
- Madame Butterfly, intervention, Solís Theatre staircase, Montevideo, 2009
- Belleza compulsiva, National Museum of Visual Arts, 2009[6]
- Lo que queda, Contemporary Art Show, 2012
Awards[]
- Acquisition Award, 39th National Salon of Plastic and Visual Arts, 1975
- Ministry of Tourism Award, 6th Spring Biennale, Salto, 1996
- Special and Acquisition Award, Centennial Painting Salon of the Banco República, 1997
- Spring Biennale Award, Salto, 1998
- Figari Award for Career, MEC-BCU, 2014[4]
References[]
- ^ "Margaret Whyte" (in Spanish). National Museum of Visual Arts. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
- ^ a b c Galería de Búsqueda, Issues 347-355 (in Spanish). Galería de Búsqueda. 2007. p. 84. Retrieved 22 May 2019 – via Google Books.
- ^ a b Haber, Alicia (22 September 2012). "Margaret Whyte: la bisabuela irreverente y subversiva creadora de arte joven" [Margaret Whyte: the Irreverent Great-Grandmother and Subversive Creator of Young Art]. El País (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
- ^ a b "Premio Figari 2014: Margaret Whyte" (in Spanish). Ministry of Education and Culture. 9 December 2014. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
- ^ Arte, Issue 4; Issue 6 (in Spanish). APEU Artistas Visuales. 2003. p. 33. Retrieved 22 May 2019 – via Google Books.
- ^ Centenario del MNAV (in Spanish). National Museum of Visual Arts. 2011. p. 62. Retrieved 22 May 2019 – via Google Books.
External links[]
- 1940 births
- Living people
- 20th-century Uruguayan painters
- 20th-century Uruguayan women artists
- 21st-century Uruguayan women artists
- Artists from Montevideo
- Uruguayan women painters