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Julio Alpuy Julio Alpuy - The Man Julio Alpuy was born in Tacuarembo, Uruguay, in 1919. He moved to Montevideo in 1935 to continue his studies. In 1940, at the age of 21, he was introduced to Joaquin Torres-Garcia and joined the Torres-Garcia workshop. In 1943-44 he began teaching at the workshop under Torres-Garcia's direction. In 1945 Alpuy traveled to Peru and Bolivia with Gonzalo Fonseca and Jonio Montiel, both members of the workshop.

However, he merits serious independent consideration both for his importance as a teacher within the circle of artists linked to Torres-Garcia and for his development as a visionary artist of great power and insight. . One of the most accomplished and respected artists to come out of Latin America's "School of the South," Alpuy developed his own variation of constructivism during the 1940s while working with the Uruguayan master Joaquin Torres-Garcia at his workshop, El Taller Torres-Garcia. By exploring the tension between the modernist grid and his own symbolic pictographs, Alpuy reorders and transforms nature into a highly personal yet recognizable visual idiom. He extends the concepts of Torres-Garcia though his understanding of modernist forms with an originality that suggests why he became a teacher in the workshop by the young age of 24.

In the end, this is a most striking and significant aspect of Costa's new series, for it at once melds not only the traditions of different regions of the globe but also the past and the new and as yet completely uncharted cultural possibilities of what will certainly be an unprecedentedly global twenty-first century. The catalogue essay provides a profile of Gurvich that is both personal and well informed. de Torres at the famed Taller Torres-Garcia and a close friend. This portrait of Gurvich's artistic motivations and life are explored with the insight of student, friend, and internationally recognized authority of Torres-Garcia and the artists of the School of the South. It gives the reader an intimate view of this exceptional artist and wonderful man.

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