MARTE

Montevideo | Uruguay

Florida 1215
Montevideo
Uruguay

Director | Gustavo Tabares

MARTE is an artistic platform that, since its beggings in 2005, seeks to be a turning point and meeting within the cultural scene of the community. Aiming at the promotion, diffusion and sale of Uruguayan contemporary art. As an artistic collective, MARTE is not only focused on itself, but also open to the search for a fairer society from the area of ​​artistic creation. In more than 50 exhibitions held inside and outside the MARTE spaces, more than 300 Uruguayan and foreign artists have exhibited. Through programs and workshops, it promotes research, experimentation and development of contemporary art projects. Curatorial projects have been carried out, participated in meetings of alternative spaces, edited catalogs and books, and generated exchanges with artists, collectives, curators and galleries from abroad. He also advises collectors and institutions who want to acquire contemporary art.

ESTE ARTE 2016

ESTE ARTE 2015

What is your ideal type of collector? Every type of collector.

What, on the contrary, is the sort of collector you try to avoid at all cost? No-one.

Who is the collector from whom you have learnt the most, and why? Those who will later make their acquisitions available to the general public by exhibiting them.

What, if any, is the mistake you would never make again? Selling a work from my personal collection.

What, if any, is the best deal you have ever made? Sales to museums.