Martin Pelenur

Bio

Martín Pelenur is a visual artist and cultural producer born in 1977. Since 2013, he has been the director of La Pecera (located in La Barra, Punta del Este), an artist-run space for the promotion of visual arts in Uruguay.
As an artist, he has had a long career dating back to the 1990s, during which he has taken part in numerous solo and group shows held in Uruguay and other countries.
His work is frequently exhibited within the Río de la Plata region and abroad. Among his most recent exhibitions are Pigment Blue (Del Paseo Gallery, Manantiales, Uruguay), Cintas, concentración, repetición y deriva (Zielinsky Gallery, Barcelona, Spain) and Línea Aceguá (Kavlin Cultural Center, Maldonado, Uruguay).
Awards and scholarships
2022. Kates-Ferri Projects Residency. Manhattan, Nueva York, eua.
2021. nars Foundation Residency. Brooklyn, Nueva York, eua.
2019. fefca Training Scholarship awarded by the National Board of Culture of the Ministry of Education and Culture (mec, for its acronym in Spanish), Uruguay.
2017. La Pecera. Awarded the Regional Fund for Culture. National Board of Culture of the mec, Uruguay.
2016. La Pecera. Awarded the Emprende Cultura Fund, financed by the European Union.
2015. Bitácora Project. Awarded the National Board of Culture’s Contestable Fund Grant, Uruguay.
2012-2014. fefca Creation Scholarship awarded by the National Board of Culture, Uruguay.
2012. National Painting Award Bartolomé Macció, San José, Uruguay.
2011. Paul Cézanne Award. Alliance Française, Montevideo, Uruguay.
2011. Bicentenary Painting Award (selection). National Visual Arts Museum, Montevideo, Uruguay.
2010. Scholarship award. Goethe Institute, Berlin, Germany. 54th National Visual Arts Award. National Visual Arts Museum, Montevideo, Uruguay.

Statement

Pelenur understands painting as a way of thought and as an experimental practice. He Investigate the conditions for creating Painting through exercises, systems and procedures that he can then repeat.
He works in series and uses painting as a perpetual experiment.

Martin Pelenur

Title: Sin título

Medium: Acrílico / hardboard

Dimensions: 70 x 50 cm

Wall reference
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in

Other works of La Pecera

Other galleries

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