VIP PROGRAM | ESTE TERTULIA | Dani Umpi, Julia Castagno and Fernando Foglino
Martin Craciun, Cultural Program Curator (Uruguay)
In conversation with Dani Umpi, Artist (Uruguay)
Julia Castagno, Artist (Uruguay)
Fernando Foglino, Artist (Uruguay)

ESTE ARTE in collaboration with ANDAR (Uruguayan National Art Association), presents three installations by Uruguayan artists for the Punta del Este Convention Center. Delacroix's fractal by Julia Castagno presented by Black Gallery, Dani Umpi presented by Xippas Galleries and Fernando Foglino presented by Diana Saravia. Delacroix's fractal Julia Castango's work is made up of modules that, in the form of large fractals, descend from the ceiling to subtly touch the floor. The gold-colored fractals are a tribute to Eugène Delacroix, for whom color was the painting itself and the generator of the contemplative act of our interiority, from which fabulous and imaginary realities emerge.

Julia Castagno (Uruguay)
Uruguayan contemporary artist born in 1977. She has represented Uruguay at the Havana Biennial, Santiago de Chile and the San Pablo-Valencia Meeting. His work, both graphic and painting, installations and video art, has important awards and has been exhibited in Montevideo, Buenos Aires, San Pablo, Belo Horizonte, Lima, Madrid, Paris and New York. The Burial Within the framework of the 3rd Montevideo Biennial, the work "The Burial" was created for the central space of the Hall of Lost Steps of the Legislative Palace where the record cabinet with the 1830 constitution is normally found. guarded by two soldiers from the historic Florida Battalion. In a replica game, the constitution was replaced by an exact model of the furniture and the soldiers made of wood, Emerson Moreira and Eduardo Pereira, guarded, during the period of the Art Biennial, some of the most important scenes in the history of the country tied to the law building.

Fernando Foglino (Uruguay)
Poet and visual artist. Since 2008 he has held solo and group exhibitions in different museums in the country and abroad. His works are part of public and private collections. In 2016 he obtained the Mercosur Prize for Visual Arts. www.foglino.me “Manto parangolé negro” and “Championes”. Variable measures. 2016 In Umpi's work there is a constant reference, reappropriation and decontextualization of the "parangolés" by Hélio Oiticica. Join some already used in actions and shows to create a monochromatic cloak that dialogues with videos. A second installation, "Championes", talks: A tangle of shoes intervened with colored paper. Tension between life and death, fragility and strength, overinformation and emptiness, performance and oblivion.

Daniel Umpiérrez (Uruguay)
Known under the pseudonym Dani Umpi. Singer, writer, visual artist and media figure in his country, Dani Umpi created his own language, a particular aesthetic and a very free way of working naturally. Arisen in the under Montevideano Buenos Aires, with a mutant image between sophisticated and bizarre, a humor and a capacity for self-parody that some cataloged as transgressor, he becomes an unusual cult artist.