Ernest Morales
Argentine artist Ernesto Morales was born in 1974 a Montevideo, in Uruguay, and began his career in Buenos Aires where he lived until 2006 and then moved to Europe. After an initial period in Paris, he established his studio in Italy, initially in Rome and from 2011 in Turin.
His artistic career has led him in the last twenty years to organize exhibitions in museums and art galleries in many countries, including the United States, Italy, France, Germany, Spain, Hungary, China, Singapore, Malaysia, thailand, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Uruguay. He has participated in numerous international fairs and between 2009 and the 2015 he has institutionally represented the Governments of Italy, Argentina and Uruguay with a series of important personal exhibitions held in various museums.
In 2019 his Mindscapes retrospective is set up in New York at the Consulate General of the Argentine Republic.
During the formative period in Buenos Aires, in 1999 obtained the title of Professor of Fine Arts and in 2005 holds a PhD in Visual Arts from the Universidad de Bellas Artes. From 1999 to the 2006 taught Painting and Art History at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and held the position of Director of the Academia de Bellas Artes de Buenos Aires.
The artistic research of Ernesto Morales is characterized by a strong commitment aimed at investigating issues related to impermanence, to memory and distance through the pictorial elaboration of both elements taken from nature captured in their symbolic dimension, than of dreamy urban landscapes wrapped in the silence of metaphysical atmospheres.
