CAMPO Benefit Auction 2023

Artwork Description
In the backyard of my grandparents' house, there were two plum trees, one white and the other red. In 2009, my grandfather passed away, and that same winter, the white plum tree in the house died. 'Leonor Carlota's Nap' portrays the red plum tree from my grandmother Leonor's house. The drawings are sgraffito; scratching the gold leaf to reveal the underlying red paint. The series was presented in the summer of 2016 at the Kavlin Cultural Center.

Bio
Juan Manuel Rodríguez Arnábal (1980, Uruguay)
Juan Manuel Rodríguez Arnábal was born in 1980 in Uruguay. He studied Fine Arts at the Universidad de la República del Uruguay, Montevideo, and completed a Master's in Painting at the University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain. He was part of the Contemporary Art Foundation and Carlos Capelán's workshop.
In 2008, he received the 3rd Acquisition Prize MEC, 53rd National Salon of Visual Arts 'Hugo Nantes,' and was awarded a residency grant in Zurich. In 2010, he won the 'Young Painting Acquisition Prize' at Zonamerica, and in 2012, he received the First Acquisition Prize MEC at the 55th National Visual Arts Prize 'Wifredo Díaz Valdéz.' He also obtained the First Prize 'Paul Cezanne Prize' with a residency at the Cité Internationale des Artes, Paris.
In 2018, he participated in the Port Tonic Art Center Saint Tropez residency. He has held eight solo exhibitions, and his work has been featured in various collective exhibitions in renowned museums and international institutions such as Plaise the Tokyo in Paris and Galleria Marta Traba in Sao Paulo, among others.

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