Águeda Dicancro

Águeda Dicancro (1938 – August 14, 2019) was a Uruguayan sculptor from Montevideo, noted for her plastic art[1]. Her art is featured at the Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales in Montevideo.[2]

Águeda Dicancro
Born1938
Montevideo, Uruguay
Died14 August 2019
Montevideo, Uruguay
NationalityUruguayan
Occupationsculptor
Arborescencias, by Águeda Dicancro, at the Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales (MNAV).

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]

She was awarded a scholarship from the Organization of American States and traveled to Mexico in 1964.[4] She studied ceramics as well as gold and silver metalworking.[5] However she is primarily known for her sculptures made of glass, her chief material alongside wood. The combination of glass and wood could be seen in her opalescent exhibition Arborescencias at the Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales.[6]

An Águeda Dicancro sculpture of steel and glass can be found in the Telecommunications Tower (Montevideo), the current location of ANTEL.[7]

Awards
  • International Ceramic Art Contest XXXIII, Faenza, Italy
  • First Prize in Ceramics at the Ford Foundation Contest, Mexico (1965)
  • Grand Prize and First Prize in Jewelry of the 1st Hall of Decorative Arts, National Plastic Arts Committee (1966)
  • Honorable Mention at the Second International Applied Arts Biennial, Punta del Este
  • Acquisition Prize at the Salón Municipal XV (1967)
  • Gold Medal at the Commune of Rome (1973)
  • First Prize at the Mural Contest, Puerta del Sol building, Punta del Este (1978)
  • Acquisition Prize at the Salón Municipal XXXIII
  • Premio Figari (2002)

She was selected to represent Uruguay at the Venice Biennial 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). Retrieved 16 September 2008.
  4. Cotidiano Mujer (2001). "Águeda Dicancro. Artesana, orfebre, escultora" (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 September 2008.
  5. Ministerio de Educación y Cultura de Uruguay (30 November 2007). "Águeda Dicancro: "Arborescencias"" (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 September 2008.
  6. Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales. "Exposiciones Temporarias" (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 September 2008.
  7. ANTEL. "Complejo Torre de Comunicaciones". Retrieved 16 September 2008.


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