Plaza Independencia (Independencia Square)

IGNACIO ITURRIA (1949). Painter. He studied at the National School of Fine Arts and the studios of Willy Marchand, Nelson Ramos and Julio Verdié, in Montevideo, and of Ramón Aguilar Moré, in Spain. He has represented Uruguay in several biennials (Venice 1995, La Habana 2001) and received distinctions such as the First Prize in the National Salon of Visual Arts (1976) and the Figari Award (2001). His production is characterized by the use of textures and impasto with an informalist tendency, the play of perspective, and an identifying range of colors. His elaborate compositions of anecdotic and solitary nature are common. Always true to itself, his is an introspective painting imbued with mystery, that springs from memory and the unconscious, creating its own worlds, which exude a Montevidean atmosphere. In Plaza Independencia (Independencia Square IADB#1992.178), the beings and objects are belittled by the action of memory and imagination, resembling a scene from a children’s game. It is a kind of solipsistic recovery of a space where everything is possible or a return to the childish dream of omnipotence, through memory and imagination.