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Sergio Avello
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He was
born in Mar del Plata in 1964, and nowadays lives and works in Buenos Aires.
As an Argentinean artist, he is related to abstraction and with a remarkable
usage of light and color in his work.
He participated in the Kuitca fellowship (1998), and obtained financing from the
Fondo Nacional de las Artes (2000), and Fundación Antorchas (2003).
During the 80’s he made several exhibitions in discotheques and in non-traditional
spaces of Buenos Aires. He performed his first individual exhibit, “Arte
decorativo argentino: nuevo exponente” (“Argentinean decorative art: new
exponent”) in Adriana Rosenberg’s gallery, Buenos Aires (1989).
Some of his most highlighted exhibitions are: "Avello y sus amigos" (“Avello and
friends”), Centro Cultural Rojas (1992), “S/T”, Fondo Nacional de las Artes
(2003), “Semana” (“Week”) (2003) and “In Situ” (2006), both in Dabbah-Torrejón
Gallery, and “Zig-zag de espejo. Paisaje en caleidoscopio. Reflejo de sí mismo”
(“Mirror Zig-zag. Landscape in kaleidoscope. Reflection of itself”) (2006), land
art, Palo Pintado, Valles Calchaquíes, Salta, Argentina, ((( VOLUMEN ))), in the
esplanade of MALBA (2007), "11 Olas digitales" (“11 Digital Waves”), in
REDGALERIA (2007). Some of the various collective exhibitions in which he
participated are “Vértigo”, Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires (1997),
“Transliminares” (1999) and “Sortilegio” (2001), both in the Fondo Nacional de
las Artes, “Erased Borders”, Contemporary Art, Miami, Florida, Estados Unidos
(2002), Museo Castagnino (with the artist Juan José Cambre), Rosario, Argentina
(2003), “Cromofagia”, Centro Cultural Borges, Buenos Aires (2003),
“Iluminaciones”, Contemporáneo 17, Malba-Colección Costantini, Buenos Aires
(2006). He was part of the Argentinean shipment to the Biennial of Mercosur,
Porto Alegre, Brasil (2003). He obtained the Chandon Prize in Arte BA (2004).
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