Born 13 Oct 1955 Montevideo Uruguay.
STUDIED WITH
1967-69 Esteban Garino.
1984 Vicente Martín.
1987 Guillermo Fernández.
1989-90 Clever Lara.
1991 Carlos Lazo - Cinema and Video.
1991 Plastic Arts Museum, Stephen Faharthing (Oxford University).
1991 Miguel Battegazzore.
EXHIBITIONS
2013 Confluence des Arts at Gallery Artchill, Amber Fort, Jaipur.
2010 Cri´Dart, Metz, La Moselle, Francia.
2010 DGLux, Luxemburgo.
2009 Musée Des Arts Derniers, París, Francia.
2009 Galerie Ines Schulz, Dresden, Alemania.
2009 Galerie inBgriff, Berlín, Alemania.
2009 Ashok Art Gallery, New Delhi, India.
2009 Autoria BsAs Arte, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2009 Praxis, Santiago de Chile, Chile.
2009 Artium, Santiago de Chile, Chile.
2008 The Americas Collection, Coral Gables, USA.
2008 The Americas Collection & Rotsen Design in Wynwood, Miami, USA.
2008 Lèche-vitrines Art Alliance, Fort Lauderdale, USA.
2008 Gallery Artchill, Amber Palace, Rajasthan, India.
2008 Art2Day Gallery, Pune, Maharastra, India.
2008 Habitante Art Gallery, Panamá.
2008 Weil Art Art Gallery, Panamá.
2008 Laura Haber Art Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2007 Trench Gallery, Punta del Este, Uruguay.
2006 Indico, Montevideo, Uruguay.
2001 La Cartuja, Montevideo, Uruguay.
1999 "First Biennial of Peñarol in Art" L.A.T.U., Montevideo, Uruguay.
1995 "20 years and a studio" Master Cléver Lara Studio, in Municipal Council Hall Montevideo, Uruguay.
1995 Cultural Center of Chimené, Manaos, Brazil.
1994 Contemporary Art Museum, Montevideo, Uruguay.
1994 Light Palace (U.T.E.), Montevideo, Uruguay.
1994 Notaries Art Gallery, Montevideo, Uruguay.
1994 Promotion League of Punta del Este, Maldonado, Uruguay.
1994 Plastic and Visual Arts Museum, Montevideo, Uruguay.
1994 Raw Gallery, London, England.
1994 Galerie K´Art de Simón Kerven, "Carlos Musse y Ernesto Vila", París, France.
1993 Liberty Building, Republic Presidency, Montevideo, Uruguay.
1993 Gaucho and Coin Museum, "Children's Villages", Montevideo, Uruguay.
1993 Itinerant Sample, Prize "V Centenary of Plastic Expression", Municipal Councils of Maldonado, Lavalleja, Durazno, Río Negro y Colonia.
1992 French Alliance, Montevideo, Uruguay.
1992 Book Institute, Montevideo, Uruguay.
1992 Juan Manuel Blanes Museum, Montevideo, Uruguay.
1992 Fine Arts Museum, Salto, Uruguay.
1992 Swiss Club, Montevideo, Uruguay.
1992 Montevideo Town Council, Prize "V Centenary of Plastic Expression", Montevideo, Uruguay.
1991 Giácomo Lo Bue Art Gallery, Córdoba, Argentina.
1991 Jane de Verner Art Gallery, Ville Franche, Francia.
1991 Italian Institute of Culture, Montevideo, Uruguay.
1991 Ponto a Ponto Art Gallery, Bento Gonçalvez, Brazil.
1991 Buenos Aires City Culture Secretariat, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1991 Genaro Pérez Fine Arts Museum, Córdoba, Argentina.
1991 Artiguista Didactic Museum, Maldonado, Uruguay.
1991 Jane de Verner Art Gallery, Malmö, Sweden.
1991 El Galpón Theater, Montevideo, Uruguay.
1991 Municipal Underground Art Gallery, "Aluarte 91", Aluminium sculpture,Montevideo, Uruguay.
1991 Uruguayan Film Institute, Video "Without time and space", Montevideo,Uruguay.
1990 Ponto de Arte Art Gallery, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
1990 Cristina González Art Gallery, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
1990 Anglo Institute, Montevideo, Uruguay.
1990 Municipal Underground Art Gallery, Montevideo, Uruguay.
1990 Soudan Art Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina Prizes.
1990 First Prize of Painting, "Art First Biennial of Uruguay's Car Club".
1992 First Prize of Painting, "Art Fourth Biennial of Salto".
1993 Third Prize of Painting, "80º Anniversary of U.T.E." Contest.
1990 Selected for Prize "National Fund of Arts", Buenos Aires City Culture Secretariat.
1990 Second Prize of Painting, El Galpón Theater.
1990,91 Selected Prize "Paul Cézanne", Plastic and Visual Arts Museum.
1990 Selected in Municipal Council Hall.
- Selected 7º in Spring Hall, Anglo Institute.
- Selected Prize "Aluarte 91", aluminium sculpture, Municipal Underground Art Gallery.
- Selected Prize "Fiftieth Anniversary Notaries Savings Bank" 1991, Notaries ArtGallery.
- Second Prize "LightningVideo", for video "Without time and space", Uruguayan Film Institute.
1992 Selected Prize "V Centenary de Plastic Expression", organized by Spanish.
- Embassy and Iberoamerican Cooperation Institute.
1999 Selected "First Biennial of Peñarol in Art", LA.T.U. (Technological Laboratory of Uruguay).
Artist Statement
What to say about my artwork? I do not find it easy to analyze it, may be a good beginning, any serious analysis is not easy, and I do not also feel myself capable to elaborate a theory about my task, it is not my job, I feel like -and it gratifies me more- to be a performer. I know that on a white canvas, I enjoy enormously to provoke on it a sort of invasion, very free and wild, to the best style of “action painting” where I can download with power and confidence colors and forms that I did not know even myself just a moment before I could do, to incur from different angles, and to see little by little what it begins to appear at “random”. After the pause, a moment of quietness observing what is there, until in some sector emerges a shape, a color or a combination of both that seduces me, that suggests me a theme and I begin to think how to integrate the rest of the artwork to that shape. The searching of that integration, most of the time provokes other shapes and sectors to appear which I feel interesting and they finally end covering the original idea, so is that many times I find myself painting and repainting the same artwork once again. When a harmony emerges from the whole, it is after putting the finishing touches to that “rough stone”, that same rough stone that as well as our being can always be improved and polished in its most pronounced edges. After so much display, in a moment I feel a state of infatuation over the artwork, “delighted” for it … and it is at this point that one should let the most objective judge to get in, the time. Many times I discover that that “wonder” has lacks here and there and when trying to correct them … I have to begin once again. Sometimes I think “this artwork is much better than I can paint” and if days go over –and this feeling persists- that infatuation turns into a peaceful joy to contemplate what is done and it is me, who is the first surprised one by the result. I try the artwork to awake an emotion in me, a feeling, a smile or peace when observing it, and when this does not happen, frustration, anger and a wish of destroying everything appear, summing up, the most dark and violent side of oneself. I believe here it is the synthesis of my job, something that is not new in the human being, negative can be transformed into positive. It is not easy. I chose painting.
Carlos Musse Montevideo, Uruguay, 2008