Carlos Páez Vilaró
Carlos Páez Vilaró | |
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![]() Carlos Páez Vilaró in 2009. | |
Born | |
Died | 24 February 2014 Punta Ballena, Uruguay | (aged 90)
Occupation(s) | Painter, potter, sculptor, muralist, writer, composer, constructora. |
Spouse(s) | Madelón Rodríguez Gómez (1955–61) Annette Deussen (m. 1989) |
Children | Carlos Páez Rodríguez, Mercedes, Agó, Sebastián, Florencio, and Alejandro. |
Website | www |
Carlos Páez Vilaró (1 November 1923 – 24 February 2014) was a Uruguayan abstract artist, painter, potter, sculptor, muralist, writer, composer and constructor.[1][2] He took an active role in the search for survivors of the 1972 crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 in the Andes, as his son Carlos Páez Rodríguez was a passenger.
Life and work
Carlos Páez Vilaró was born in
He composed numerous musical pieces in the two genres and conducted an orchestra. His group's
He was one of the "Grupo de los 8", a movement of Uruguayan artists formed in 1958 together with Oscar García Reino, Miguel Ángel Pareja, Raúl Pavlovsky, Lincoln Presno, Américo Sposito, Alfredo Testoni and Julio Verdie in order to promote new tendencies in painting. In 1960 they were invited by art critic Rafael Squirru to join the international exhibition at the Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art (of which he was creator and first director) with artists such as Willem de Kooning, Roger Hilton and Lucio Fontana. The experimental tendencies of the Grupo de los 8 have since gained a place of unquestionable relevance not only in the panorama of Uruguayan art but also at an international level, some of their works forming part of museums and collections worldwide.[citation needed]
Increasingly well-known, Páez Vilaró was commissioned in 1959 to create a mural for a tunnel connecting a new annex to the
He purchased a sea-front property on eastern Uruguay's scenic, then-desolate
Páez Vilaró remained active in European and African culture, as well. He remained close with numerous friends from his days in
The artist's first marriage, to Madelón Rodríguez Gómez, though brief, produced three children. Páez Vilaró experienced difficulties in other areas of his life. He met Annette Deussen, an Argentine tourist, in 1976, and she had his child in 1984. Deussen was married to another man at the time, and the marriage dissolved in 1986; she and Páez Vilaró married in 1989. Her former spouse, however, continued his legal fight for the child for over a decade, even after Páez Vilaró's paternity was established by tests.[13] The matter was ultimately resolved in the Páez Vilarós' favor in 1999.[14]
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He continued to create murals and sculptures for various government offices, corporate headquarters, private homes, and other buildings. He created 12 murals in
On 24 February 2014, Páez Vilaró died at the age of 90 at his home Casapueblo, in Punta Ballena.[1]
His son stated in reaction to his father's death: "I hope he rests in peace. I've never seen a guy who works that much, and I mean it. He worked up until yesterday."[15]
Crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571
Carlos Páez Rodríguez portrays Vilaro reading the official list of names of survivors during a radio broadcast in the 2023 film about the crash, Society of the Snow.
References
- ^ a b c "Carlos Paez Vilaro dies at 90; Uruguayan mural artist and musician". Los Angeles Times. 2014-02-26. Retrieved 2020-04-29.
- ^ "Carlos Páez Vilaró (1923 – 2014, Uruguayan)". THE GREAT CAT. 2017-05-12. Retrieved 2020-04-29.
- ^ Artist's bio Archived September 11, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ La Nación Archived 2011-06-06 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
- ^ Access My Library: The Bright side of the tunnel
- ^ "Photo from Getty Images". Archived from the original on 2012-03-18. Retrieved 2010-11-08.
- ^ Zagaria, Elisa (2019-08-28). "Casapueblo, A Magical City of Stone Carved Over the Sea". ELLE Decor (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-04-29.
- ^ ONSC: Carlos Páez Vilaró Archived 2010-02-15 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
- ^ a b Nueve franjas y un sol (in Spanish) Archived 2009-08-27 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b Clarín (in Spanish) Archived July 8, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Páez Vilaró: Un personaje de novela. Gente(20 February 1969) (in Spanish)
- ^ imdb: Batouk
- ^ Clarín (12 October 1998) Archived 17 March 2009 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
- ^ Clarín (7 November 1999) Archived 13 December 2009 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
- ^ Montevideo Portal (24 February 2014) (in Spanish)
- ^ "Uruguayan artist Carlos Paez Vilaro dies at 90". Retrieved 2024-06-25.
External links
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