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


Biography

Rimer Cardillo graduated from the of Uruguay in 1968. He completed postgraduate studies in East Germany at the in Berlin and at the between 1969 and 1971. Teaching work has been present in his artistic career since the 1970s in the and several workshops in Uruguay and the United States. He has been a teacher of artists who have managed to develop solid personal careers such as
Gladys Afamado Gladys Afamado (born 24 May 1925) is a Uruguayan visual artist, engraver, and poet. A member of the Montevideo Engraving Club since 1954, she has contributed to many of its monthly editions and almanacs. She later ventured into different plastic ...
,
Margaret Whyte Margaret Whyte (born 21 February 1940) is a Uruguayan visual artist. Career Margaret Whyte began her artistic activity in 1972 at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Montevideo. She studied with , , Amalia Nieto, Rimer Cardillo, , and . She has bee ...
, and
Marco Maggi Marco Maggi (born 1957 in Montevideo, Uruguay, Montevideo, Uruguay) is a New York- and Uruguay-based artist whose work incorporates common materials such as office paper, aluminum foil, graphite, and apples to create micro drawings, sculptures, and ...
. 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. He is a tenured professor at the
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, where he is responsible for the direction of the graphic arts department. In 1997 he was awarded a
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. In 2001 he represented Uruguay at the
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. In 2002 he received the
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in recognition of his career. In 2004 he was awarded the Chancellor's Award and the Prize for Artistic and Scientific Research. He exhibited at the
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(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
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in London to give a conference and present a video about his creations. In 2004 the Samuel Dorsky Art Museum of SUNY New Paltz organized the first
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of Cardillo's work. In 2011 the
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in Long Island held the retrospective exhibition "Jornadas de la memoria", which included works by the artist over four decades.


Work

Cardillo has developed a varied series of works that include
engraving Engraving is the practice of incising a design onto a hard, usually flat surface by cutting grooves into it with a Burin (engraving), burin. The result may be a decorated object in itself, as when silver, gold, steel, or Glass engraving, glass ...
s,
sculpture Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...
s, 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. His work is held by numerous public and private collections, including the
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,
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, Cincinnati Art Museum,
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of Mexico, Museo de Bellas Artes and
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in Caracas, New York
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in Washington,
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at Oberlin College in Ohio, and the
National Museum of Visual Arts National Museum of Visual Arts (Uruguay) ( es, Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales) a museum in Parque Rodó, Montevideo, Uruguay. It was inaugurated on December 10, 1911. This museum has the largest collection of Uruguayan artworks. Among them are w ...
of Montevideo, the garden of which became home to his 1991 sculpture ''Barca de la crucifixión'' in 2005.


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