Rimer Cardillo

Rimer Cardillo (born 17 August 1944) is a Uruguayan visual artist and engraver of extensive international experience who has lived in the United States since 1979.

Rimer Cardillo
Born (1944-08-17) 17 August 1944
Montevideo, Uruguay
NationalityUruguayan
Alma materNational Institute of Fine Arts
OccupationPlastic artist, engraver
Awards
Websitewww.rimercardillo.com

Biography

Rimer Cardillo graduated from the National Institute of Fine Arts of Uruguay in 1968.[1] He completed postgraduate studies in East Germany at the Weißensee School of Art and Architecture in Berlin and at the Leipzig School of Graphic Art between 1969 and 1971.[2]

Cupí degli Uccelli, Uruguay pavilion at the Venice Biennale, 2001
Anacahuita, la pimienta de los pobres, installation, Fernando García Ponce Museum, México, 2014

Teaching work has been present in his artistic career since the 1970s in the Montevideo Engraving Club and several workshops in Uruguay and the United States.[1] He has been a teacher of artists who have managed to develop solid personal careers such as Gladys Afamado, Margaret Whyte, and Marco Maggi. He conducts training workshops on graphic techniques in Montevideo every year, as well as curating exhibitions in Uruguay and abroad, in the quest to revalue engraving as a creative discipline and a platform for contemporary expression for the new generations of artists in his country.[3]

He is a tenured professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz, where he is responsible for the direction of the graphic arts department.[4]

In 1997 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.[5] In 2001 he represented Uruguay at the Venice Biennale. In 2002 he received the Figari Award in recognition of his career.[6] In 2004 he was awarded the Chancellor's Award and the Prize for Artistic and Scientific Research. He exhibited at the Binghamton University Art Museum (2013) and the Medieval Trinitarian Templespace of the Kiscell Museum, Budapest, Hungary (2010), among other outstanding museums and galleries in various countries.

In 2003 he was invited by the Tate Modern in London to give a conference and present a video about his creations.[7] In 2004 the Samuel Dorsky Art Museum of SUNY New Paltz organized the first retrospective of Cardillo's work. In 2011 the Nassau County Museum of Art in Long Island held the retrospective exhibition "Jornadas de la memoria", which included works by the artist over four decades.[1][8]

Work

Cardillo has developed a varied series of works that include engravings, sculptures, and installations, where the study of nature and the preservation of his imprint has always been present. His sculptures and installations evoke archaeological sites that revalue the pre-Hispanic imaginary of Uruguayan territory with aesthetic representations - symbols of funerary mounds that allow recreating the collective memory, as well as the artist's metaphorical return to his native land. His fascination with the primitive is also reflected in much of his graphic work, as well as an archeology of natural life in the transfer of forms of animals and plants that resemble fossils made of metal, ceramic, or paper, which reinforce the idea of permanence of culture beyond life and point to the intense trace of the ancestral and the recovery of the past.[9]

His work is held by numerous public and private collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Cincinnati Art Museum, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura of Mexico, Museo de Bellas Artes and Museum of Contemporary Art in Caracas, New York Museum of Modern Art, Art Museum of the Americas in Washington, Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College in Ohio, and the National Museum of Visual Arts of Montevideo, the garden of which became home to his 1991 sculpture Barca de la crucifixión in 2005.[10]

References
  1. Schwendener, Martha (11 November 2011). "Coded Messages". The New York Times. Retrieved 17 December 2017.
  2. Rimer Cardillo. SUNY Press. 12 December 2004. p. 10. ISBN 9781438431109. Retrieved 17 December 2017 – via Google Books.
  3. "La imagen gráfica: el artista descubriendo, en Fundación Unión" [The Graphic Image: The Artist Discovered, at Fundación Unión]. Revista Dossier (in Spanish). 15 October 2013. Retrieved 17 December 2017.
  4. "Art Professor installs multimedia exhibition at Washington, D.C. museum". State University of New York at New Paltz. 24 March 2016. Retrieved 17 December 2017.
  5. "Rimer Cardillo". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 17 December 2017.
  6. "Figari Award to Uruguayan artist Rimer Cardillo". ArtNexus. 19 March 2002. Retrieved 17 December 2017.
  7. "Fieldworks: Dialogues between Art and Anthropology: Day 3 video recordings". Tate Modern. 13 November 2013. Retrieved 17 December 2017.
  8. "Rimer Cardillo: Jornadas de la memoria" (PDF). Muse News. Nassau County Museum of Art. September 2011. Retrieved 17 December 2017.
  9. Haber, Alicia (9 May 2014). "Rimer Cardillo: Charrúas y Montes Criollos, el escenario de la memoria" [Rimer Cardillo: Charrúas y Montes Criollos, the Stage of Memory]. El País (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 28 May 2016. Retrieved 17 December 2017.
  10. "Barca de la Crucifixión" (in Spanish). National Museum of Visual Arts. Archived from the original on 12 July 2015. Retrieved 17 December 2017.
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