Andivero Antonio

Antonio Andivero is a Uruguayan artist, born in Montevideo/Uruguay in 1934. He is a painter, etcher, teacher and artistic producer. He started as an autodidact and later, in 1945, he worked as an apprentice painter. He was a member of the Circle of Fine Arts and the Uruguayan Institute of Visual Arts, where he studied Art History, Sculpture and Engraving. He worked together as a scenographer at the School of Dramatic Art (Montevideo, Uruguay) until he received a scholarship that allowed him to travel to Europe and America, settling in Madrid in 1967. His work is based on cubist resonances. At the end of the 1960s, he opted for a form of expression that delves into geometric abstraction through overlapping figures, especially the circle, which is present in all his work. In 1975 he moved to France, where he exhibited a figurative style with fantastic roots, populated by disappearing, soft characters cut on flat backgrounds of contrasting colors. In the 1980s he merged his earlier work by placing geometric figures, such as the sphere, and biomorphic figures on one plane. He starts collaborations with the city of Elancourt, for which he made several murals. In 1990 his work was selected by NASA to travel on the space shuttle Discovery. 250 engravings by Antonio Andivero chosen by the European Space Agency and NASA to celebrate their 25 years of mutual collaboration on the occasion of the launch of the Hubble telescope. These carvings return to Earth "baptized into infinity" and were offered to those involved in this space adventure. In November 1996, the artist designed the cover for the Hygens probe CD-ROM, which was carried by the Cassini spacecraft and deposited in 2004 on Titan, the largest of Saturn's moons, at the end of a seven-year interstellar journey. Antonio Andivero has exhibited in numerous museums in the United States, Canada, France, Tokyo, Spain and several Latin American countries. (BT)