Fernando Falco

Uruguay is a third world country then is very difficult the art market.
Most visual artists sell their work abroad or tourist sites.
The ilucion living painting is very hard in a place with 3 million inhabitants and more than 20 thousand people between artists and craftsmen.
For this reason, my work tries to be more research to maintain a commercial style.
It took more than 45 years learning to paint.
.When I was 13 years old, I collaborated in the murals of the National Customs building under the responsibility of the artist Augusto Torres Piña. This experience, although very brief (two weeks), marked my vocation for painting. As I express it below, in my country it is very difficult to live from art, because young people are not taught to perceive true art in any of its disciplines. At the time of the military dictatorship I got married and had to emigrate to Argentina where I lived selling wood carvings made by me, to regional souvenir shops. In 1976 I returned to Uruguay and began to study Sanitary Installations, in 1980 I was appointed as a drawing, technology and workshop teacher. In 1981 I started with my own company of Sanitary Installations (plumber), during this time I only drew construction plans and painted in a ca...

I was born in 1952 in Montevideo, Uruguay. Realized work my studies at university, in a higher level in the specialty: design and sanitary technology. 1980 was appointed professor in these subjects.
In that moment; I started painting on his own.

1985 I made my first collective Exhibition with other emerging artists.
1994 continued studying with the artist Maria Garcia.
1997 I studied construction and mud sculpture; with architect Cecilia Alderton.
2001 course with Maestro Mario Giacoya in Punta del Este beach.
2002 participation and obtaining vent prize in Genesis Gallery; Punta del Este beach.
2003 chosen for exhibition in Plaza de Punta del Este beach.
2008 Construction of mud house for Mr. Bagliero.
2010 chosen mud construction house "Portal del Aguila".
Persepción 2014 and studied visual language in National School of Fine Arts.
Generally ; I paint and sell my work, person to person.