Martin Pelenur

Bio/CV: Visual Artist and cultural producer, conducts La Pecera Artist Run Galley in La Barra Punta del Este, Uruguay since 2013. La Pecera is an independent run space who’s main goal is the further development of visual arts in Uruguay.
As an artist has an extended career which started by the end of the nineties with numer- ous shows in his country and abroad.

Pelenur’s work has been exhibited in the Rio de La Plata region and abroad. It has been the subject of individual and collective international exhibitions at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Buenos Aires, the Art Nexus Foundation in Bogotá, the Figari Mu- seum in Montevideo, the Artemisa Gallery in New York and the Sayago & Pardon Foun- dation in Los Angeles. Pelenur has received numerous awards, among them the Project Bitácora of the Ministry of Culture and Education of Uruguay (2015), the FEFCA Grant of the Ministry of Culture and Education of Uruguay (2019 & 2012), the Paul Cézanne Prize from the French Alliance in Montevideo (2011), and the Goethe Institut scholarship in Berlin (2010). The artist currently lives and works in La Barra, Maldonado, Uruguay.

Artist Statement: I define myself as a Painter and understand painting as a way of thought. My artistic practice is divided in studio time where I devote myself to research the materials I use to produce Paint. I work with premises, hypothesis to test and then go to their encounter. Repetition is the methodology, just like breathing, the heartbeat, or walking, kind of a mantra, a meditative state in which concentration is total.

Outside the studio I work with the drift, mostly walking actions that take place in the countryside or the city. The starting point is cartography, reading maps until some anomaly calls attention. I study them, and then go to its encounter again. It can be a straight line, a 90 degree angle or the perimeter of an island. I’m producing an index of the walk.

My current professional activity has to do with how I divide my artistic practice. My last show had to do with a repetition series on how to produce grids placing orthogonally masking tape on a given support and my last project was to go to the border of Uruguay and Brazil and walk a 40kms artificial straight line that divided both countries.

Selected Solo Exhibitions: 2021 “La Pintura es un Bicho herido” Black Gallery. Garzón, Uruguay.
2019 “Pigment Blue.” Galeria del Paseo, Manantiales, Punta del Este, Uruguay. “Concentration, repetition, drift. Zielinsky Gallery, Barcelona, Spain.
2017 Línea Aceguá. Kavlin Cultural, Maldonado, Uruguay
2016 Cintas. Solo Show. Espacio BSM, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Ballena. Solo Show. Sala Dodecá, Montevideo, Uruguay.
2015 Recent work. Piero Atchugarry Gallery, Maldonado, Uruguay.
2014 Black room. Allium Space, Garzón, Maldonado, Uruguay, Diagonal. Del Paseo Gallery. Maldonado Uruguay.
2013 Sistema. Pablo Cassará Foundation. Buenos Aires.
2012 Extractor Voyeur. Alianza Francesa. Montevideo Uruguay
2011 3 Cans of Klarlack, Torstrasse 111. Berlin, Germany, Círculos de Pintura Negra y Su Correspondiente Problemática. Jacksonville Gallery, Montevideo, Work Premises. Alejandra VonHartz Gallery. Miami, USA

Selected Group Exhibitions: 2021 “Breaking Point” NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NYC. 2020 Fundación Pablo Atchugarry, Punta del Este. “El Paisaje de la Pintura”. CCD Punta del Este. 2019 Houston Gala Show, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. 2018 “Encuentros en el Arte” Museo Gurvich, Montevideo, Uruguay, 16 artistas desencajados. Galeria del Paseo, Montevideo, Uruguay. Art Lounge Show. Buenos Aires, Argentina, “Concéntrese” Espacio BSM, Buenos, Aires, Argentina, “Functional Functionality” LMAK Gallery, New York. 2017 Cuadrado de Algo in collaboration with Martin Craciun. MAPA headquaters, Montevi- deo. 2016 “ Concéntrese”. La Pecera Artist Run Galley, Punta del Este, Uruguay, “The Global South: Visions and Revisions from the Brillembourg Capriles Collection, Miami, USA, “Abstracción 2” Galería Arroniz, DF, México, “Fragmentations and other Parables”. Alejandra VonHartz Gallery, Miami, USA, “Amore e Scelta”.MIIT, Torino, Italia, La Pecera. Punta del Este, Uruguay 2015 Monochrome Undone. Sayago & Pardon Collection. California, USA Primordial Meditations. Artemisa gallery, NYC, USA, New Geometrics, AMA Museum, Washington, USA, Materiateca Viva, Museo Pedro Figari, Montevideo, Uruguay. 2014 Collective show, Fundación Pablo Atchugarry, Maldonado, Uruguay. Collective show. Gurvich Museum, Montevideo, Uruguay, Collective show. Konkurso. SUBTE Expositions Centre, Montevideo, Uruguay. 2013 Extensiones (o el fin de lo virtual). SUBTE Expositions Centre, Montevideo, Uruguay. Obras en Esplendor, Soriano 899, Montevideo.
Salto Biennale. Salto, Uruguay.KIOSCO, Montevideo, Uruguay.Artemisa, NY, EEUU. 2012 Equipaje de Mano, Migrations Museum. Montevideo, Uruguay. Geométricos Hoy. MACBA Collection. UADE Art, Buenos Aires Argentina.Monitor Plástico. SUBTE, Expo-sitions Centre Montevideo, Uruguay. Let!s Begin wit a line. Emerson Dorsch Gallery. Miami, USA

Awards and Residencies: 2020 Selected resident. NARS foundation, New York.
2019 FEFCA scholarship award. Uruguayan Ministry of Culture and Education, Uru- guay.
2017 La Pecera Artist Run Gallery. Fondos Concursables Award. Uruguayan Ministry of Culture and Education, Montevideo.
2016 La Pecera Artist Run Gallery. Emprende Cultura Award. European Union.
2015 Bitácora. Fondos Concursables Award. Uruguayan Ministry of Culture and Edu- cation, Montevideo.
2012-14 FEFCA Scholarship. Uruguayan Ministry of Culture and Education, Montev- ideo.
2012 National painting award, Bartolomé Macció, San José, Uruguay.

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