statement

Statement

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.

CV

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.