Carlos Uría was born in Buenos on January 23, 1929 and died in the same city in 2007. National Professor of Fine Arts specialized in Painting and Drawing, graduated from the Prilidiano Pueyrredón School of Fine Arts in 1955. Member of the Chartres International Stained Glass Center , France and Master stained glass painter. He has exhibited since 1956 in Argentina, the United States, Uruguay, Taiwan, Venezuela and Spain. He acted as artistic jury. He exhibited individually on more than 40 occasions and collectively on more than 150 occasions. In 2006 he obtained the First Prize for Painting in the University of Morón Contest, in 2006 the First Prize for Painting in the Hall of the Union of Civil Personnel of the Nation, in 1997 the Grand Prize of Honor in the National Hall, in 1993 Medal for Merit from the National University of Tucumán, in 1990 the First Drawing Prize at the Annual Salon of Santa Fe, the National Arts Fund Award, the First Prize for Painting at the Quinquela Martín Salon, the Grand Prize of Honor at the Salon National of Mar del Plata, the Third Prize at the National Hall of San Lorenzo, Santa Fe, the George Braque Award and the Second Prize at the Manuel Belgrano Hall, among others. His new work represents another position against what the critic Rubén Vela calls: Buenos Aires aestheticism. His drawings formulate “an expressionism full of plastic value, according to Marta Traba, of irrationalism, disorder, debauchery of forms in a work that disregards the tranquility of Argentine art.”
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