{"id":9930,"date":"2019-09-12T16:21:18","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T15:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saladalmau.com\/?p=9930"},"modified":"2021-05-15T18:51:39","modified_gmt":"2021-05-15T17:51:39","slug":"jose-gurvich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saladalmau.com\/en\/2019\/09\/12\/jose-gurvich\/","title":{"rendered":"Jos\u00e9 Gurvich"},"content":{"rendered":"

Constructivism<\/a> has been an artistic movement that our gallery<\/a> has always been very close to. Over the years we have presents the work of his creator, Joaqu\u00edn Torres-Garcia<\/a> in several solo and group exhibitions.<\/p>\n

This avant-garde that Torres-Garc\u00eda began to gestate in Paris by the end of the decade of the 1920s and the beginning of the 1930s, and culminated in his natal Montevideo, lived a great momentum in 1943, when the Torres-Garcia workshop opened and there a generation of young artists changed the artistic background of Uruguay and all the Cono Sur.<\/em><\/p>\n

Over the years, we have presented several exhibitions about it, from the one dedicated to the Workshop itself,<\/a> with works from the 1940s of its members, up to solo shows not only of Torres-Garc\u00eda, but also of some of his students such as his son, Augusto Torres<\/a>, or Alceu Ribeiro<\/a>, one of his first disciples.<\/p>\n

A special case is Jos\u00e9 Gurvich<\/a>, whose work we presented for the first and only time in Barcelona in 2000<\/a>. He joined the workshop shortly after the making of the famous Saint-Bois murals, and over the years he became one of the members of the workshop with more international recognition.<\/p>\n

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View of JOs\u00e9 Gurvich’s show in our gallery, 2000.<\/p>\n

His beginnings are clearly constructivist, as his fellow students were, but his evolution takes him to a personal path that moves him away of them and gives him his own personality. A relevant detail will be his religion, Judaism, something that he incorporates into his work, especially after his stays in a kibutz in Israel.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Later on, he moves on to new techniques like Torres-Garc\u00eda he will always a lot for small drawing, but also he became a renowned muralist and will work in depth with sculpture, in ceramics s swell as in bronze, offering a personal synthesis of Judaism and Constructivism, developing a very personal language that can be appreciated in works such as \u201cHombrew universal\u201d (Universal man) or \u201cTorre del Ed\u00e9n\u201d (Tower of Eden).<\/p>\n

Pese a su prematura muerte en Nueva York, donde estaba proyectando una serie de esculturas de gran formato, consigui\u00f3 realizar una obra completa y personal en la que los principios del constructivismo fueron la base para desarrollar su propio camino.<\/p>\n

Despite his early death in New York, where he was projecting a series of large scale sculptures, he managed to develop a complete and personal body of work where the principles of constructivism were the base to his own path.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Constructivism has been an artistic movement that our gallery has always been very close to. Over the years we have presents the work of his creator, Joaqu\u00edn Torres-Garcia in several solo and group exhibitions. This avant-garde that Torres-Garc\u00eda began to gestate in Paris by the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9904,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saladalmau.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9930"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saladalmau.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saladalmau.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saladalmau.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saladalmau.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9930"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.saladalmau.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9938,"href":"https:\/\/www.saladalmau.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9930\/revisions\/9938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saladalmau.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saladalmau.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saladalmau.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saladalmau.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}