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1922 Montevideo, Uruguay - 1997 Seravezza, Italy. Known for: Stone-carved miniature sculpture, mosaic glass mural, symbolism.
"Gonzalo Fonseca, 74, Carved Enigmas in Stone," By Holland Cotter, Obituary, The New York Times, June 18, 1997. Gonzalo Fonseca, a Uruguayan-born artist best known for his stone carvings of enigmatic... Read full biography
"Gonzalo Fonseca, 74, Carved Enigmas in Stone," By Holland Cotter, Obituary, The New York Times, June 18, 1997. Gonzalo Fonseca, a Uruguayan-born artist best known for his stone carvings of enigmatic architectural forms, died on June 11 at his studio in Seravezza, Italy, near the city of Lucca. He... Read full biography
"Gonzalo Fonseca, 74, Carved Enigmas in Stone," By Holland Cotter, Obituary, The New York Times, June 18, 1997. Gonzalo Fonseca, a Uruguayan-born artist best known for his stone carvings of enigmatic architectural forms, died on June 11 at his studio in Seravezza, Italy, near the city of Lucca. He was 74. The cause was a stroke, said his son, Caio, a painter. Mr. Fonseca, who represented his native Uruguay in the 1990 Venice Biennale and created a 40-foot cast-concrete tower for the 1968... Read full biography
"Gonzalo Fonseca, 74, Carved Enigmas in Stone," By Holland Cotter, Obituary, The New York Times, June 18, 1997. Gonzalo Fonseca, a Uruguayan-born artist best known for his stone carvings of enigmatic architectural forms, died on June 11 at his studio in Seravezza, Italy, near the city of Lucca. He was 74. The cause was a stroke, said his son, Caio, a painter. Mr. Fonseca, who represented his native Uruguay in the 1990 Venice Biennale and created a 40-foot cast-concrete tower for the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, began his career at a dynamic moment in Latin American art, studying painting in the workshop of the the renowned modernist Joaquin Torres-Garcia in Montevideo between 1942 and 1949. Sharing his teacher's concept of an art based on... Read full biography
"Gonzalo Fonseca, 74, Carved Enigmas in Stone," By Holland Cotter, Obituary, The New York Times, June 18, 1997. Gonzalo Fonseca, a Uruguayan-born artist best known for his stone carvings of enigmatic architectural forms, died on June 11 at his studio in Seravezza, Italy, near the city of Lucca. He was 74. The cause was a stroke, said his son, Caio, a painter. Mr. Fonseca, who represented his native Uruguay in the 1990 Venice Biennale and created a 40-foot cast-concrete tower for the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, began his career at a dynamic moment in Latin American art, studying painting in the workshop of the the renowned modernist Joaquin Torres-Garcia in Montevideo between 1942 and 1949. Sharing his teacher's concept of an art based on universal symbols, Mr. Fonseca traveled to Pre-Columbian ruins in Bolivia and Peru and to later archeological sites... Read full biography
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