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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
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. She studied with , Jorge Damiani, Amalia Nieto,
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, Hugo Longa, and . She has been a member of the (FAC) since its inception. Her work includes paintings, soft sculptures, installations, and interventions. Whyte evokes the memory of the materials she uses – fragments of dresses, tablecloths, and bedspreads bring an intense color to her textile works in which she questions the ideals of beauty and their rituals – as a way to revalue the aesthetic independent of the beautiful. Her assemblages are accumulations and layers of cut and torn, wrapped, tied, and sewn objects which propose a reflection on the situation of women, beauty, fashion, and their commercial logic. In 2014 she received the
Figari Award The Figari Award () is given annually to visual artists from Uruguay in recognition of their careers. It was instituted in 1995 by the Central Bank of Uruguay, at the initiative of the then president of the institution, economist and sculptor Ric ...
in recognition of her career. The jury, composed of , Lacy Duarte, and , cited the extreme uniqueness of her works and the intergenerational reference that she represents in the Uruguayan art world.


Exhibitions

* ''Pinturas'', Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC), Montevideo, 1992 * ''Las cosas mismas'',
Juan Manuel Blanes Museum Juan Manuel Blanes Municipal Museum of the Arts () is a museum in Prado, Montevideo, Uruguay. Location and history The Juan Manuel Blanes Municipal Museum of the Arts is located at Avenida Millan 4015, in the neighbourhood of Prado, Montevideo, ...
, Montevideo, 1995 * ''Misterios y ritos'', Museo del Gaucho y la Moneda, Montevideo, 1996 * ''Cajas de Petri'', Sala Vaz Ferreira, Montevideo, 1999 * ''Espacios medios'', Molino de Pérez, Montevideo, 2001 * ''Cuerpos atávicos'', Colección Engelman-Ost, 2003 * ''Hasta que duela'', Cabildo de Montevideo, 2003 * ''Pliegues'', , 2007 * ''Kanga'', intervention, CCE elevator, Montevideo, 2008 * ''Madame Butterfly'', intervention,
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staircase, Montevideo, 2009 * ''Belleza compulsiva'', National Museum of Visual Arts, 2009 * ''Lo que queda'', Contemporary Art Show, 2012


Awards

* Acquisition Award, 39th National Salon of Plastic and Visual Arts, 1975 * Ministry of Tourism Award, 6th Spring Biennale, Salto, 1996 * Special and Acquisition Award, Centennial Painting Salon of the Banco República, 1997 * Spring Biennale Award, Salto, 1998 *
Figari Award The Figari Award () is given annually to visual artists from Uruguay in recognition of their careers. It was instituted in 1995 by the Central Bank of Uruguay, at the initiative of the then president of the institution, economist and sculptor Ric ...
for Career, MEC- BCU, 2014


References


External links

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''Belleza compulsiva''
at the National Museum of Visual Arts {{DEFAULTSORT:Whyte, Margaret 1940 births Living people 20th-century Uruguayan painters 21st-century Uruguayan women artists 21st-century Uruguayan artists Artists from Montevideo 20th-century Uruguayan women painters Uruguayan women sculptors