María Fernanda Pallares

María Fernanda Pallares is an Uruguayan artist who focuses her artistic practice on printmaking and approaches photography from a perspective in which manual work predominates. Fernanda pays special attention to the material supports and techniques that give us a more tactile and intimate experience with photographic images.

Combining it with contemporary techniques, Fernanda takes advantage of a late 19th century procedure called Photogravure on copper plate. This is a printing technique so cumbersome that, despite being appreciated for its beauty and the character it gives to the surface, it is currently practiced by few studios in the world. This exceptional nature gives the results of this printing process an additional symbolic meaning.

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María Fernanda Pallares is a graduate from the National School of Fine Arts and the Faculty of Communication
Sciences (both from the University of the Republic). From 2001 to 2007 she lived in Brazil where she completed a master's degree and a doctorate in Philosophy at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro

Fernanda complemented her art training with workshops in Uruguay and abroad. In 2018 she began making printmaking matrices with photopolymers, becoming interested shortly after in photogravure work with copper plates. In 2020 María Fernanda took a copperplate photogravure workshop (Talbot-Klíč technique) with Carles Mitjà in Estada.

2023
ESPLORAZIONI. Exhibition with Matteo Gradi. Armadillo Atelier51r. Florence, 11/11 to 2/12.


2022
CO-INCIDERE 4. L'Armadillo Atelier 51r members exhibition. Florence, Dec/10/2022 to Jan/21/2023.

Mínimos vestigios (Minimal traces). Photogravure exhibition with Cecilia Romero. Agadu. Montevideo, Oct/7/2022 to Nov/3/2022.

2021
CO-INCIDERE 3. L'Armadillo Atelier51r members exhibition. Florence, Dec/11/2021 to Jan/22/2022.

2020
#mostralaterra. L'Armadillo Atelier51r contest/exhibition (Florence).

2019
Exhibition of Álvaro Amengual's Studio. Espacio Salamandra (Salamandra Space). November.

Excusas y Apapachos, exhibition together with Argentinean, Mexican and Uruguayan printmakers at the Centro Cultural Miguel Ángel Pareja, Las Piedras. From October to
December (Simultaneous to the exhibition of the same name at AGADU).

Excusas y Apapachos, together with Uruguayan and Mexican printmakers at AGADU, Montevideo. From September to December.

Hay cosas que quedan grabadas, with La Estación group at AGADU's Founders Hall. Montevideo, June/5 / 2019 – June/9 / 2019.

El sitio que nos une, a collective printmaking exhibition by La Estación at Centro de Arte Obligado (Obligado Art Center). Montevideo, May/24/ 2019 – June/20 / 2019