Un largo viaje de pasión
que ha crecido en el tiempo

From 4 January to 18 September 2025, MACA presents “El color en mi vida”, an intimate collection of paintings and drawings by Pablo Atchugarry, his first art exhibition in 50 years. Through works dating back to his childhood in Montevideo and his artistic evolution, the exhibition reflects on how colour and introspection shaped his path towards sculpture. ‘There is no sculpture without painting,’ says Atchugarry, inviting us to rediscover this essential aspect of his work.

The exhibition offers a visual and poetic dialogue between Virgilio Guidi, Riccardo Licata and Tancredi, three leading figures in 20th-century Italian art who are linked to Venice, each in their own way, not merely as a setting but as a pulsating centre of inspiration and inner exploration. A Venice that is not a collection of images or architecture, but an immaterial experience made up of light, silence, flashes and reflections – a lagoon that is an emotional mosaic and mental space, on the border between reality and dream.

Visitors can expect an experiential journey that combines light, sign and gesture in a visual symphony capable of transcending appearance and touching the essence. Guidi, Licata and Tancredi thus reveal the invisible city, which escapes the gaze and inhabits memory, consciousness and the heart.

MACA (The Atchugarry Museum of Contemporary Art), Uruguay's first major contemporary art museum is inaugurated with an international retrospective exhibition entitled "Christo and Jeanne-Claude in Uruguay". It is a collection of more than 50 works from the artists' families and private collectors coming to South America for the first time. It provides an overview of the work in different formats: photographs, drawings, collages and projects. The Foundation has published a bilingual Spanish-English catalogue with a detailed history, an intimate interview with the artists and images of all the works in the exhibition.

Over 40 works from different years of production, chosen to dialogue with the evocative architecture of the place where they are located. Over the last twenty years, his work has focused on large marble sculptures - all personally carved and sculpted - and has recently given way to works carved directly into the wood or emerging from the trunks of centuries-old olive trees.

Hollis Taggart Galleries is pleased to present the first New York show of Pablo Atchugarry’s marble sculpture. The Uruguayan-born artist, who lives and works in Lecco, Italy, works with marble and bronze to create pieces that are both elegant and imposing. No undertaking is too daunting for him—from the 2003 Venice Biennale installation representing Uruguay, to the private commission of a five-story high sculpture hewn from a single block of Carrara marble, to the more intimately scaled works on view in the gallery. In white Carrara marble, and pink Portugal and Iran marbles, these pieces fold, layer, and undulate. Atchugarry effectively works the medium to appear both weightless and substantial.