Daniel Amaral

With deliberate austerity and without expressive excesses, Daniel Amaral Oyarvide takes up the challenge and makes a fond rescue of what is beautiful.
Precision matters because that devotion to beauty is one of the essential guides in all his work. Baudrillard has argued that seduction in the face of beauty, as seduction, was a mere artifice, hardly simulacrum. However, in this case, the opposite happens. Seduction before the beautiful germinates from the visceral and does not seem to be linked to explicit hedonisms or sensuality. It is woven into the affective, in the desires of the human being, in their beliefs, in their intimate plots, even in the wakefulness of their inexplicable anguish. It is born from myth and flies over a prudent rational thought. It generates uncertainties and offers the repose of what it does not demand: the logical rigidity or the exuberance of delirium. His work sits in the warm intimacy of what is often called the spirit. It generates a profane exercise of faith that can touch even rigid atheists or the insecure agnostics.

Formal Education: Carlos Tonelli Atelier (Uruguayan Artist). Pierre Collet Atelier (French professor, Paris, France).
1985-Present: He teaches painting in his private ateliers in the cities of Salto, Bella Union, Artigas, and Montevideo, Uruguay.
1986-88: Director of “Taller de Artes Plásticas”, Salto, Uruguay. Director of “Bellas Artes y Artes Decorativas Museum”, Salto, Uruguay. Professor for the “Department of Culture and Education” (cities of Artigas and Bella Unión, Uruguay)
1995: Visiting professor and lecturer in The Master of Fine Arts from the National University of Argentina in Concordia, Argentina.

Individual Exhibitions:
2020- Galeria Juan Palleiro, Montevideo, Uruguay
2019- Galeria Juan Palleiro, Montevideo, Uruguay
2015- Galeria Juan Palleiro, Montevideo, Uruguay
2014- Grillo Gallery, Punta del Este, Uruguay
2013- Mitami Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2012- CAF Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela
2011- “El Tranvia Cultural” Gallery, San Paulo, Brazil
Grillo Gallery, Punta del Este, Uruguay
2010- “La Magia de las matemáticas”, American Express Art Gallery, Punta del Este, Uruguay.
“Terra Nostra”, Art Museum, Salto, Uruguay
2008- Art Museum, Salto, Uruguay
“Mosaico Contemporáneo”. Celebrating 183rd declaration of Uruguay´s independence, Memorial de América Latina, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
2006- Trench Gallery, Punta del Este, Uruguay
2003- Latina Gallery, Montevideo, Uruguay.
2002-HSBC Bank Gallery, San Pablo, Br.
Barceló Club and Hotel, Punta del Este, Uy.
1993-Cultural Center of La Paloma,Uy.
1991-1992- Sotavento, La Paloma, Rocha,Uy.
1991-Fine Arts Museo,Salto,Uy.
1988-Art Museum,Artigas,Uy.
1984-Alianza Francesa, Salto,Uy.
1980-Shopping Center Gallery, Punta del Este, Uruguay.

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