Chile
Statement
Alejandro Urrutia works with the synergies between architectural and sculptural principles. After ten years as an architect he now uses the medium of sculpture to play with how architectural rules can be reinterpreted and transgressed.
He draws on the rich relationship between his two disciplines to generate new perspectives within the forms he creates and to consider how a piece relates within its physical and social context.
Profile
GlogauAIR resident from October 2019 to December 2019
GlogauAIR Project
Production of ‘complementary opposites’: a series of sculptures that represents the existence of cycles in life, cycles formed by the interplay of interdependent opposite, mutually constituted and moving spirally. Sol y Luna was the first piece of the series. El Sol, denoted as masculine in the Spanish language and La Luna, denoted as feminine, also imply other complementary opposites in life flowing harmoniously such as day and night, North and South, Summer and Winter.
CV Summary
EDUCATION
- 2000-2006 Architecture | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
- 1998-2000 Science Bachelor | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
ART RESIDENCY / WORKSHOPS
- 2019 GlogauAIR Residency | glogauair, Berlin, Germany.
- 2017 London Sculpture Workshop | London Sculpture Workshop, London U.K.
- 2016 Workshop on Work Analysis and Criticism, Eugenio Dittborn | Santiago, Chile.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- 2018-2019 Betafactory architect/sculptor | Betafactory, Metal and wood workshop, Copenhague, Denmark.
- 2008-2016 Founder architect UNarquitectura | UNarquitectura, Santiago, Chile.
- 2016 Project Architect “Preservation of Pukara and Chullpas of Nama” | Tarapaca Region, Chile”, financed by “Archaeological Institute of America Site Grant”.
- 2008-2009 Project Architect FONDART Nº 63389-2008 “Plan de Manejo de los Petroglifos de Rosario” | Arica Region- Parinacota, Chile.
- 2007-2008 Architect DuqueMotta | DuqueMotta, Santiago, Chile.
EXHIBITIONS
- 2019 Uncharted | Sirin Gallery Copenhague, Dinamarca. Oct-
Chart Fair | Den Frie Copenhague, Denmark. September.
Form/ Function Be One | Sirin Gallery, Copenhague, Denmark. March- April.
YICCA 2018 International Contest Contemporary Art | HDLU museum, Zagreb, Croatia. Curator: Leila Topić Zagreb’s Museum of Contemporary Art. Jan-Feb. - 2018 Balance Solo Show | Nac Gallery, Santiago, Chile. Jan.
PUBLICATIONS
- 2019 Future Now 2019 100 Contemporary Artists from the Aesthetica Art Prize
- 2018 Art Maze Magazine Nº9 publication | curator: Kim Savage, Founder and Director of FOLD Gallery, London.
Latinoamerica Circuitos del Arte | Curator Daniel G. Alfonso.
YICCA 2018 | International Contest Contemporary Art Catalogue, curator Leila Topić.
Arte Al Límite Magazine | Edition 91, Jul –Aug, curator Elisa Massadro.
AWARDS
- 2019 Art residency award YICCA International Contest Contemporary Art | HDLU museum, Zagreb, Croatia. Curator: Leila Topić Zagreb’s
Short listed Artist Aesthetica Art Prize. - 2015 2nd prize Public contest Mineduc Punitaqui School | Punitaqui, Coquimbo Region, Chile.
- 2014 3rd prize Public contest Juan Pablo II Park Swimming Pool | Las Condes Municipality, Santiago, Chile
