VIP PROGRAM | ESTE TERTULIA | Rita Fischer, Santiago Paulós and Rimer Cardillo
January 9, 2018 | 11am-12pm | Parador La Susana, José Ignacio

Alex Vik Collector (Sweden)
in conversation with Rita Fischer, Artist (Uruguay)
Santiago Paulós, Artist (Uruguay)
Rimer Cardillo, Artist (Uruguay)

Rimer Cardillo (Uruguay) graduated from the School of Fine Arts of the University of Uruguay, the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee and the Hochschule für Grafik und Bunchkunst in Leipzig. He received in 1997 the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. In 1998, the Bronx Museum of the Arts made the first retrospective of his work. He represented Uruguay at the 49th Venice Biennial and is a Visiting Professor at the Tate Modern (2003). The Nassau County Museum of Art had an extensive exhibition of his work in 2011.

Rita Fischer (Uruguay) graduated from the Escuela Universitaria Centro de Diseño of Montevideo. She studied at the Instituto Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes and at the "Clever Lara" workshop in Montevideo. She received a scholarship for the Résidence des Arts-Maison Internationale in Saint-Etienne, France, and obtained the Plastic Arts License at the Paris-VIII University.

Santiago Paulós (Uruguay) is an artist and a teacher graduated from the Master of Fine Arts by the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom, with a specialization in contemporary painting. He studied graphic design at the Universidad ORT Uruguay, visual arts with Álvaro Amengual and Clever Lara in Montevideo and at the Catedra Francisco de Goya - Universidad Complutense from Madrid directed by Antonio López García.

Alexander Vik (Norway) is an entrepreneur, collector and the founder of the luxury hotel complex VIK Retrats.