Águeda Dicancro

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Águeda Dicancro
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Águeda Dicancro (1938 – August 14, 2019) was a

plastic art.[1] Her art is featured at the Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales in Montevideo.[2]

Life

Dicancro studied at the

University of the Republic National School of Fine Arts (Instituto Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes de la Universidad de la República)[3] between 1960 and 1964, and later at Uruguay's Universidad del Trabajo.[4] She also studied engraving and cement sculpture under Spanish sculptor Eduardo Yepes, before graduating as a professional ceramist in 1964.[4]

She was awarded a scholarship from the

An Águeda Dicancro sculpture of steel and glass can be found in the Telecommunications Tower (Montevideo), the current location of ANTEL.[8]

Awards

  • International Ceramic Art Contest XXXIII, Faenza, Italy
  • 1965, First Prize in Ceramics at the Ford Foundation Contest, Mexico
  • 1966, Grand Prize and First Prize in Jewelry of the 1st Hall of Decorative Arts, National Plastic Arts Committee
  • Honorable Mention at the Second International Applied Arts Biennial, Punta del Este
  • 1967, Acquisition Prize at the Salón Municipal XV
  • Gold Medal at the Commune of Rome (1973)
  • 1978, First Prize at the Mural Contest, Puerta del Sol building, Punta del Este
  • Acquisition Prize at the Salón Municipal XXXIII
  • 2001, Prmio Alas
  • 2002,
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She was selected to represent Uruguay at the Venice Bienniale in 1993 and the San Pablo Biennial in 1994.

References

  1. ^ "Los sueños del bosque alado". Brecha (in Spanish). 23 August 2019.
  2. ^ La República (23 March 2009). "Instalación de Agueda Dicancro" (in Spanish). Retrieved 8 May 2011.
  3. Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales. "Águeda Dicancro" (in Spanish). Archived from the original
    on 29 February 2008. Retrieved 16 September 2008.
  4. ^
    OCLC 38132659.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link
    )
  5. ^ Cotidiano Mujer (2001). "Águeda Dicancro. Artesana, orfebre, escultora" (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 September 2008.
  6. Ministerio de Educación y Cultura de Uruguay (30 November 2007). "Águeda Dicancro: "Arborescencias""
    (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 September 2008.
  7. (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 September 2008.
  8. ^ ANTEL. "Complejo Torre de Comunicaciones" (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 September 2008.