Statement Profile GlogauAIR Project CV Summary

Statement

Alejandro Urrutia works with the synergies between architectural and sculptural principles. After ten years as an architect he now uses the medium of sculpture to play with how architectural rules can be reinterpreted and transgressed.

He draws on the rich relationship between his two disciplines to generate new perspectives within the forms he creates and to consider how a piece relates within its physical and social context.

Profile

GlogauAIR Project

Production of ‘complementary opposites’: a series of sculptures that represents the existence of cycles in life, cycles formed by the interplay of interdependent opposite, mutually constituted and moving spirally. Sol y Luna was the first piece of the series. El Sol, denoted as masculine in the Spanish language and La Luna, denoted as feminine, also imply other complementary opposites in life flowing harmoniously such as day and night, North and South, Summer and Winter.

CV Summary

EDUCATION

2000-2006

Architecture | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

1998-2000

Science Bachelor | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

ART RESIDENCY / WORKSHOPS

2019

GlogauAIR Residency | glogauair.net, Berlin, Germany.

2017

London Sculpture Workshop | londonsculptureworkshop.org, London U.K.

2016

Workshop on Work Analysis and Criticism, Eugenio Dittborn | Santiago, Chile.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2018-2019

Betafactory architect/sculptor | betafactory.dk, Metal and wood workshop, Copenhague, Denmark.

2008-2016

Founder architect UNarquitectura | unarquitectura.cl, Santiago, Chile.

2016

Project Architect “Preservation of Pukara and Chullpas of Nama” | Tarapaca Region, Chile”, financed by “Archaeological Institute of America Site Grant”.

2008-2009

Project Architect FONDART Nº 63389-2008 “Plan de Manejo de los Petroglifos de Rosario” | Arica Region- Parinacota, Chile.

2007-2008

Architect DuqueMotta | duquemotta.com, Santiago, Chile.

EXHIBITIONS

2019

Uncharted | Sirin Gallery sirincph.com, Copenhague, Dinamarca. Oct-
Chart Fair | Den Frie chartartfair.com Copenhague, Denmark. September.
Form/ Function Be One | Sirin Gallery sirincph.com, Copenhague, Denmark. March- April.
YICCA 2018 International Contest Contemporary Art | HDLU museum, Zagreb, Croatia. Curator: Leila Topić Zagreb’s Museum of Contemporary Art. Jan-Feb.

2018

Balance Solo Show | Nac Gallery galerianac.cl, Santiago, Chile. Jan.

PUBLICATIONS

2019

Future Now 2019 100 Contemporary Artists from the Aesthetica Art Prize

2018

Art Maze Magazine Nº9 publication | curator: Kim Savage, Founder and Director of FOLD Gallery, London.
Latinoamerica Circuitos del Arte | Curator Daniel G. Alfonso.
YICCA 2018 | International Contest Contemporary Art Catalogue, curator Leila Topić.
Arte Al Límite Magazine | Edition 91, Jul –Aug, curator Elisa Massadro.

AWARDS

2019

Art residency award YICCA International Contest Contemporary Art | HDLU museum, Zagreb, Croatia. Curator: Leila Topić Zagreb’s
Short listed Artist Aesthetica Art Prize.

2015

2nd prize Public contest Mineduc Punitaqui School | Punitaqui, Coquimbo Region, Chile.

2014

3rd prize Public contest Juan Pablo II Park Swimming Pool | Las Condes Municipality, Santiago, Chile