Nací en 1968. Crecí y me desarrollé en un contexto de pocas palabras, inclusive muchas prohibidas.

Arcilla, arena, piedritas, caracolitos y maderas asomaron tempranamente como medios de expresión silenciosa.

Los ambientes playeros dejaron una fuerte marca en mí, en especial Punta Piedras y Lagomar, lugares distantes y diferentes donde se respiraba libertad y felicidad.

Lugares donde encontraba las herramientas y materiales necesarios para crear y también a los referentes familiares, constructores y creativos que desde la nada transformaban elementos en formas e imágenes.

Posteriormente en mi vida fui abriendo puertas en mundos diferentes, formales, analíticos, de oficina, de administración, finanzas y procedimientos.

No obstante, siguió pulsando en mí el deseo de componer formas y el hábito de recoger objetos abandonados y moldeados por el tiempo, la arena y el mar.

Cercano al 2012, comencé a sentir estar logrando formas con una armonía estética merecedora de ser mostrada fuera de las paredes de mi casa, y en 2022, decidí dedicarme por entero a crear formas.

Desde el arranque fueron las maderas encontradas el medio recurrente en mis obras.

Maderas de origenes diversos, abandonadas, perdidas, en desuso e impregnadas de historias misteriosas y desconocidas. Atributos cautivantes que me confieren el desafío de ser transferidos a la obra.

Reciclo maderas, les genero una nueva vida y les pido cuenten una nueva historia integrándolas a nuevas formas.

Mis obras son expresiones mayoritariamente abstractas, intencionadas en generar recorridos visuales, entre volúmenes, colores y texturas.

Desde el 2012 he participado en muestras colectivas y también he sido distinguido con un primer premio en el concurso por los 100 años del Sindicato Médico del Uruguay por la obra 1920.

Actualmente mi espacio de trabajo está ubicado en el Bosque de Portezuelo de Punta del Este, Uruguay. Un entorno inspirador, rodeado de tranquilidad y naturaleza que alimenta mi creatividad y expresión.

Creando formas con maderas perdidas vuelvo a jugar como niño, abriendo la puerta al momento presente.

Art Works

Distance

Distance arises from what was a generous wooden base, where there was painting, creation, success and error. Until it allowed to assemble this form, with elements that travel back in time for more than 50 years, from Lagomar to Palermo through Punta Carretas.
Measures: 100 x 50cm
Date: 2019

Tercero 221

Various torn and unglued attempts on the same framework culminated in this three-part round shape, in a debatable context and orientation. Wood, characters and colored cutouts on a cardboard. Recycling items and abilities.
Measures: 70 x 100cm
Date: August 2022

Redonda 1

Now it has another form; from the prism, support and closed it came out almost round.
Measures: 72 x 72cm
Date: May 2022

First Curve

Disused furniture woods, with the natural shades found that allowed me to accommodate a curve; flexible and leaky.
Measures: 50 x 22cm
Frame: 64 x 36cm
Date: 2017

4567

Unite and seek harmony, beyond the origin and dimension of numbers.
In the same plane the woods of Jose Ignacio and Playa Ramirez.
Measures: 52 x 113cm
Date: September 2021

Fishing

An empty stacking board in Shangrila served as a frame and allowed me to play with shapes, lines and gaits.
Measures: 80 x 43cm
Frame: 88 x 53cm
Date: 2017

Punta del Este Window

A piece of wood with the strength of having faced the salty wind of Punta del Este in Miguez for several decades.
Measures with frame: 41 x 50cm
Date: November 2020

Redonda 2

The original green color of some boards that resisted in Las Flores remains symbolic and tenuous, now almost embracing a neighbor from Bella Vista and accepting inside a slightly more distant one, from Lagomar.
Measures: 70 x 100cm
Date: June 2022

Kid

Wood, nails and wires from Jose Ignacio, Manantiales and Playa Verde, with book sheets from Parque Rodo.
Measures: 72 x 82cm
Date: April 2021

Feria

An urban finding with a dirty and abandoned drawer in a shopping center confirms once again that there are lost woods everywhere.
We are lost in the world of shapes and in the permanent need to name, number and label.
Measures: 42 x 88cm
Date: August 2021

Winning work of the first prize in the Visual and Literary Arts Contest, held in commemoration of the 100 years of the Uruguayan Union, in the Traditional Painting category.
Oriented by the guidelines of the contest, most of the work was done by the base table of a Lagomar bench, with a historical journey close to 100 years. The rest was reflecting on what changes and what endures over time.
Date: October 2020
COLLECTION SMU

Oceanía del Polonio

Tables of a collapsed ranch in Oceanía del Polonio. The pieces originally prepared to be hidden and covered against the frame were left to the front. Search under the surface, find what is not seen, the origin, the essence.
Measures: 100 x 80cm
Date: August 2020

Skein

Framed recycling of colored woods.
Measures: 54 x 67cm
Date: March 2021

Beach

It forms with woods from the beginning of a board semi colored yellow, in the natural state found. Originally the elements were timidly painted and assembled. Over time I affirmed the color, the union between the parts, and the highlight and the frame.
Measures: 84 x 17cm
Frame: 112 x 35cm
Date: 2013

Playa Verde

Shapes with woods organized and assembled in Playa Verde on Santa Teresa table.
Measures: 40 x 21cm
Frame: 55 x 36,5cm
Date: 2017

Flora

Another intention with color and another attack on a botanical book. A better place for some parts that were saved from burning in Las Flores.
Measures: 60 x 90cm
Date: July 2021

Paradise

On this paradise piece of a painted plank I played with 10 elements of various origins, from beaches to tool boxes.
Measures: 28 x 50cm
Date: 2017

Transformations

Recycled wood and parts that have been looking for a shape for years. They were waiting in the box.
Measures with frame: 54 x 83 cm
Date: January 2021

Simple endings

Table composition with wood intervened on a glued old encyclopedia sheet and a Lagomar chair piece. There are beginnings, developments, and endings.
Measures: 33 x 43cm
Date: 2018

Contract

Composition on lost wood from Bella Vista beach. What is your contract?
Measures: 40 x 115cm
Date: April 2021

Night

Composition with woods on a barge table.
Measures: 23×52 cm
Date: August 2020

Garopaba

In the frame of a door, little woods were grouped and piled up in my puzzle inspired by Rosa, Vermelha and Ouvidor. It was necessary.
Measures: 32,5 x 75cm
Frame: 53 x 88cm
Date: 2016

Aguas Dulces

Series with woods from Aguas Dulces, cutouts that were once a ranch or a boat, on a frame from Playa Verde.
Measures: 14 x 83cm
Frame: 26 x 90cm
Date: 2015

Del Polonio

This structure contains colored pieces of Jose Ignacio and Oceania del Polonio from summer 2021.
It surprised me again with a big, perfect tubular wave. El Pepe is simply wonderful. Places that always leave you wanting more.
Measures: 63 x 31cm
Date February 2021

This work on two boards is from a non-existent direction in Montevideo, where wood friends from Punta Carretas and Ouvidor became friends.
Measures: 56 x 23cm
Frame: 72 x 40cm
Date: 2019

Second Curve

This creation was made from the frame box. I never thought, and I still can't admit, that I could have put together another Lagomar chair, the remains of Alejandro's, a rescue from Praia Vermelha and sheets from a Jackson Street book.
Measures: 100 x 80cm
Date: 2019

29 of Malvín

An abandoned crate in Malvín let me join its unknown memories transformed into stains.
Measures: 40 x 38cm
Date: May 2020

Jar

This is one of the first assemblies that led me to think that I had achieved a framing shape. All elements are in their natural state as found on the beach.
Measures: 20 x 77cm
Frame: 31 x 88cm
Date: 2012

Rig

In this work there was a communion of woods from the summer 2020, found in the sands of Punta Negra and Playa Verde, a souvenir of barge, pieces of rods, sisters of the mustaches and foundations of the Lucero, affirmed with wire, sweet and rusty.
Measures: 67 x 15cm
Date: February 2020

Strips Series 1

Series with natural and trimmed beach wood.
Measures: 15 x 69cm
Frame: 25 x 79cm
Date: 2017

Air

Eight woods from Aguas Dulces and Shangrilá.
Measures: 20 x 52cm
Frame: 40 x 72cm
Date: 2016

Children's Brazil

In a piece of strap from Lito de Lagomar I put together this childhood nostalgia from my children's art classes.
Measures: 26 x 13cm
Date: 2019

Bench

On Andrea's chair oak there are colored wood and two natural wood found in Shangrilá.
Measures: 14 x 48cm
Date: 2019

Artist

I have always been inspired by the beach, the outdoors, nature, sunrises, waves, the moving sea, construction and light.

Through the woods lost and worn by the sand and the sea I went connecting with the shapes.

Over time I discovered that there is lost wood everywhere and they tell stories.

My works are created to be part of people's daily lives, in the spaces they visit and where they live and work.

The Art of finding and unifying for the purpose of imagining and sharing.

Contact

E-mail: gustavotalentoart@gmail.com
Teléfono: (+598) 94 149 352

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