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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.