On May 24, 2010, Fundación Proa lost one of its founders and major contributors: the artist Sergio Avello.
Articles about Sergio:
Murió Avello, uno de los fundadores de Proa. By Mercedes Pérez Bergliaffa. Clarín. 26.05.10
Murió Sergio Avello, el pintor de la bandera. By Ana Martínez Quijano. Ambito Financiero. 25.05.10
Un divo en las estrellas. By Cristina Civale. Civilización & Barbarie. 26.05.10
Homenaje a Sergio Avello. By Ramona web
Sobre la construcción del sentido. Despedimos a Sergio Avello. By Patricia Rizzo. RED. Junio 2010
El taller de Avello en La Boca. By Pompi Gutnisky. RED. June, 2010
Se va la murga. By Soy / Página 12.04.06.10
Adiós al amigo. By Alicia De Arteaga. ADN / La Nación. 05.06.10
Homenaje a dos artistas marplatenses. By La Capital (Mar del Plata). 30.05.10
Sergio Avello was born in Mar del Plata in 1964. As an Argentinean artist, he was related to abstraction and with a remarkable usage of light and color in his work.
He participated in the Kuitca fellowship (1998), and obtained financing from the Fondo Nacional de las Artes (2000), and Fundación Antorchas (2003). During the 80’s he made several exhibitions in discotheques and in non-traditional spaces of Buenos Aires. He performed his first individual exhibit, “Arte decorativo argentino: nuevo exponente” (“Argentinean decorative art: new exponent”) in Adriana Rosenberg’s gallery, Buenos Aires (1989). Some of his most highlighted exhibitions are: “Avello y sus amigos” (“Avello and friends”), Centro Cultural Rojas (1992), “S/T”, Fondo Nacional de las Artes (2003), “Semana” (“Week”) (2003) and “In Situ” (2006), both in Dabbah-Torrejón Gallery, and “Zig-zag de espejo. Paisaje en caleidoscopio. Reflejo de sí mismo” (“Mirror Zig-zag. Landscape in kaleidoscope. Reflection of itself”) (2006), land art, Palo Pintado, Valles Calchaquíes, Salta, Argentina, ((( VOLUMEN ))), in the esplanade of MALBA (2007), “11 Olas digitales” (“11 Digital Waves”), in REDGALERIA (2007). Some of the various collective exhibitions in which he participated are “Vértigo”, Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires (1997), “Transliminares” (1999) and “Sortilegio” (2001), both in the Fondo Nacional de las Artes, “Erased Borders”, Contemporary Art, Miami, Florida, Estados Unidos (2002), Museo Castagnino (with the artist Juan José Cambre), Rosario, Argentina (2003), “Cromofagia”, Centro Cultural Borges, Buenos Aires (2003), “Iluminaciones”, Contemporáneo 17, Malba-Colección Costantini, Buenos Aires (2006). He was part of the Argentinean shipment to the Biennial of Mercosur, Porto Alegre, Brasil (2003). He obtained the Chandon Prize in Arte BA (2004).
He died on 24 May 2010 in Buenos Aires.
