Museo Moderno
Orenzanz Marie

Marie Orensanz is an Argentine artist born in the city of Mar del Plata, on September 12, 1936. Her plastic training began with Emilio Pettoruti and continued in the workshop of Antonio Seguí. She later studied in Europe, Mexico and the United States, and then settled in Milan, Italy, in 1972. She highlights, in 1987, the location of the Liceo Blanc-Mesnil sculpture and the publication of the book Communiquer by Marie Orensanz by Guy Scharaenen. She was awarded the Third Prize of the Fortabat Maison de l’Amerique Latine Foundation, Paris, in 1994. She exhibits in Europe, America and Argentina, where she held exhibitions at the National Museum of Fine Arts, at the Museum of Modern Art of the City in Buenos Aires, at the Ruth Benzacar Gallery and M. O. Retrospectiva. In 2010 she participated in the group exhibition Elles at the Center Pompidou (Paris) and, in 2010, she placed the work “Thinking is a revolutionary fact”, a sculpture located in the Parque de la Memoria Buenos Aires.