Fundación Proa bids farewell with great sadness to one of its founders, collaborator and great artist, SERGIO AVELLO, who passed away on May, 24th.
Sergio was with us since Fundación Proa’s beginning. He was a great co-worker and brought intelligence and sensitivity to all our initiatives.
His work was immense and of great value; it left an unmistakable trace in several spaces along our city as well as in the landscapes of our country. We remember him warmly and grieve his absence, feeling grateful for all he has left us.
His friends and co-workers invite all to honor him this Thursday May 27th at 18.00hs at Malba’ s esplanade. A picture of all of those present will be taken by his work “Volumen” to remember the artist.
Malba: Av. Figueroa Alcorta 3415. Buenos Aires.
We also invite you to keep posting images of Sergio at our Facebook Wall >>
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.
