Jorge Damiani was born to Uruguayan parents in 1931 in Italy. At a very young age Jorge Damiani moved to Montevideo. From a young age he showed great interest in the arts. It was in 1952 when he entered the Brera Academy in Milan, where he met the great painters of the West. Later Damiani received a Guggenheim Fellowship to study at New York. Later he returned to Montevideo where he co-founded the Uruguayan Institute of Fine Arts with others such as: the sculptor Eduardo Yepes, criticism Celina Rolleri, White Lettieri, historian and architect Fernando García Esteban, architects Florio Parpagnoli and Luis Garcia Pardo. Jorge Damiani's works are distinguished by being realistic-metaphysical, coupled with a nostalgic character of...