Alejandro Urrutia works with the synergies between architectural and sculptural principles. After ten years as an architect he now uses the médium of sculpture to play with how architectural rules can be reinterpreted and transgressed.
He draws on the rich relationship between his two disciplines to generate new perspectives within the forms he creates and to consider how a piece relates within its physical and social context.
Alejandro Urrutia Lorenzini
alejandrourrutia.art
@alejandro_urrutia_lorenzini
1979, Los Angeles, Chile.
Lives and works in Berlin.
Represented by: Sirin gallery, Copenhague, Denmark sirincph.com
Nac Gallery, Santiago, Chile galerianac.cl
STUDIES
2006 Architecture | Pontificia Univers¬idad Católica de Chile.
2000 Science Bachelor | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
EXHIBITIONS
2020 “The End is the Beginning is the End” Solo Show | Sirin Gallery, Copenhague, Denmark.
2020 “Circular” Solo Show | Nac Gallery, Santiago, Chile..
2019 Open studio GlogauAIR | GlogauAir residence, Berlin, Germany.
2019 Uncharted | Sirin Gallery, Copenhague, Denmark.
2019 Form/ Function Be One | Sirin Gallery, Copenhague, Denmark.
2019 YICCA International Contest Contemporary Art | HDLU museum, Zagreb, Croatia. Curator: Leila Topić Zagreb’s Museum of Contemporary Art.
2018 “Balance” Solo Show | Nac Gallery, Santiago, Chile.
FAIRS
2020 Cosmoscow | online version, Denmark.
2020 ENTER Art Fair | Tunnelfabrikken, Copenhague, Denmark.
2020 Art Paris 2020 | Art Digital Paris, Artsy online version.
2019 Chart Fair | Den Frie, Copenhague, Denmark.
AWARDS
2019 Fondart Ventanilla Abierta | International funds given by Chilean government for Glogauair residency
2019 Art residency award YICCA International Contest Contemporary Art | HDLU museum, Zagreb, Croatia. Curator: Leila Topić Zagreb’s
2019 Short listed Artist Aesthetica Art Prize.
2015 2nd prize Public contest Mineduc Punitaqui School | Punitaqui, Coquimbo Region, Chile.
2014 3rd prize Public contest Juan Pablo II Park Swimming Pool | Las Condes Municipality, Santiago, Chile.
PUBLICATIONS
2020 Le Monde Diplomatique | April 2020 “Viralidad y Confinamiento”. Chile
2019 Relief magazine | Issue 15 “Alejandro Urrutia”. Italy.
2019 Ark Journal Vol II | Case study Monochrome Geometry. Denmark.
2019 Future Now 2019 | 100 Contemporary Artists from the Aesthetica Art Prize.
2018 Art Maze Magazine Nº9 publication | curator: Kim Savage, Founder and Director of FOLD Gallery, London.
2018 Latinoamerica Circuitos del Arte | Curator Daniel G. Alfonso.
2018 YICCA 2018 | International Contest Contemporary Art Catalogue, curator Leila Topić.
2018 Arte Al Límite Magazine | Edition 91, Jul –Aug, curator Elisa Massadro
ART RESIDENCY / WORKSHOPS
2019 BBK Kulturwerk Berlin | Berlin, Germany. Nov-Oct.
2019 GlogauAIR Residency | Berlin, Germany.
2018 Betafactory | Copenhague, Denmark
2017 London Sculpture Workshop | London U.K.
2016 Workshop on Work Analysis and Criticism, Eugenio Dittborn | Santiago, Chile.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2008- Founder architect UNarquitectura | unarquitectura.cl, Santiago, Chile.
2016 Project Architect “Preservation of Pukara and Chullpas of Nama” | Tarapaca Region, Chile”, financed by “Archaeological Institute of America Site Grant”.
2009 Project Architect FONDART Nº 63389-2008 “Plan de Manejo de los Petroglifos de Rosario” | Arica Region Parinacota, Chile.
2008 Architect DuqueMotta | Santiago, Chile.