Pablo Atchugarry. Between earth and sky

Volume published on the occasion of the homonymous exhibition, curated by Civiero Art Gallery, at Palazzo del Parco – Room "R. Falchi ”of Diano Marina (IM), 7 October 2017 – 7 January 2018.

Pablo Atchugarry is today one of the best known and most successful sculptors on the international scene. He was born in Montevideo in 1954 and from 1982 elected Italy as his place of residence; he is not, However, permanent neither as a man nor as an artist and his is a path marked by total dedication to art, not on the side of ambition, but on that of the will, of the spiritual and existential need to be an artist and to affirm it every day through thought, gestures and work. His initiation into painting and sculpture took place at a young age in Uruguay, and the trip to Europe soon established itself as a necessary confrontation with the masters of tradition and the avant-garde, but also as a search for a poetic and expressive autonomy, first through recycled materials, then finally (revelation) with Carrara marble. In his path Atchugarry never abdicated the need to seek a truth that was original and permanent: the essence of the human being, suffocated by too many superstructures in contemporary society. Perhaps, it is precisely to release this energy, increasingly rare, that Atchugarry still today sculpts those light bodies of his incessantly reaching upwards: work seems to be his answer, its only means for the search for the original beauty which is the root of life itself, of nature and therefore of man. His sculptures could be interpreted as continuous attempts to reach what still eludes: as if they were receptors projected towards infinity, towards the cosmos, they appear as structures aimed at capturing divine or natural signals capable of illuminating.
[from the text by Luca Bochicchio]