Some of Our Favorites
Mixed media works by French artist, Antoine Puisais. Resources for more information include: Robert Blumenthal Gallery, the artist's porfolio at Saatchi, and MutantSpace.
Diego Donner (Montevideo, 1959-) is a materials painter, a painter's painter in the purest sense. While symbols and objects characterize much of his otherwise abstract work, Donner's work seems to emit unconscious spiritual underpinnings. Working primarily in the somber earthy tones so popular in the southern cone, the work is texturally organic, pure, and speaks to viewers on various planes even though he clearly defines a 2D space. Excellent work, Donner has exhibited widely both locally and internationally ever since his early days in the Nelson Ramos studio. For more information about Diego Donner, visit the artist's website at http://www.diegodonner.com
Art Rank November '14 rated Sayre Gomez as an artist to watch well before the curve. The artist is widely represented including Kavi Gupta Gallery, Francois Ghebaly Gallery and The Hole NYC. More information is available at Artsy and ArtSlant.
Javier Bassi (Montevideo, 1964-) Although Javier Bassi has been exhibiting his works for decades and established an international following after stints in New York and Europe, we were particularly impressed by a 2011 solo exhibition at the National Museum of Visual Arts (MNAV.) Expansive minimalist canvasses primarly in black with white accents are actually very intricately prepared layers of newsprint and classified ads covered methodically with black print toner. The intimate connection with both the past and the present is prevalent in Bassi's work, accumulated nostalgic memories over time. Bassi's work seems dark and perplexing, appropriate for a thinking man's artist. Visit his blog at http://javierbassi.blogspot.com/
Eduardo Cardozo (Montevideo, 1965-) is another of Uruguay's fine generation of artists born in the late 50s and early 60s that zoomed to national prominence over the past two decades. After a career featuring various tangents, Cardozo's work has matured into a lyrical play of drawings, painted forms and multi-layered explorations presented in very large format. Some works feature stained fabrics, others fragments of glass. Although the palette is comparatively light, Cardozo's paintings are anything but. More information can be found on Eduardo's website at http://www.eduardocardozo.com/
