Margaret Whyte

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Margaret Whyte
Born	(1940-02-21) 21 February 1940 (age 84) Montevideo, Uruguay
Occupation	Artist
Years active	1972–present
Awards	Figari Award (2014)
Website	www.margaretwhyte.com

Margaret Whyte (born 21 February 1940) is a Uruguayan visual artist.[1]

Career

Margaret Whyte began her artistic activity in 1972 at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Montevideo. She studied with Clarel Neme [es], Jorge Damiani [es], Amalia Nieto, Rimer Cardillo, Hugo Longa, and Fernando López Lage [es].[2] She has been a member of the Contemporary Art Foundation [es] (FAC) since its inception.[3]

Her work includes paintings, soft sculptures, installations, and interventions.[2] Whyte evokes the memory of the materials she uses – fragments of dresses, tablecloths, and bedspreads bring an intense color to her textile works in which she questions the ideals of beauty and their rituals – as a way to revalue the aesthetic independent of the beautiful.

Her assemblages are accumulations and layers of cut and torn, wrapped, tied, and sewn objects which propose a reflection on the situation of women, beauty, fashion, and their commercial logic.[3]

In 2014 she received the Figari Award in recognition of her career. The jury, composed of Olga Larnaudie [es], Lacy Duarte, and Enrique Aguerre [es], cited the extreme uniqueness of her works and the intergenerational reference that she represents in the Uruguayan art world.[4]

Exhibitions

• Pinturas, Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC), Montevideo, 1992
• Las cosas mismas, Juan Manuel Blanes Museum, Montevideo, 1995
• Misterios y ritos, Museo del Gaucho y la Moneda, Montevideo, 1996
• Cajas de Petri, Sala Vaz Ferreira, Montevideo, 1999
• Espacios medios, Molino de Pérez, Montevideo, 2001
• Cuerpos atávicos, Colección Engelman-Ost, 2003[5]
• Hasta que duela, Cabildo de Montevideo, 2003
• Pliegues, Subte Exposition Center [es], 2007[2]
• Kanga, intervention, CCE elevator, Montevideo, 2008
• Madame Butterfly, intervention, Solís Theatre staircase, Montevideo, 2009
• Belleza compulsiva, National Museum of Visual Arts, 2009[6]
• Lo que queda, Contemporary Art Show, 2012

Awards

• Acquisition Award, 39th National Salon of Plastic and Visual Arts, 1975
• Ministry of Tourism Award, 6th Spring Biennale, Salto, 1996
• Special and Acquisition Award, Centennial Painting Salon of the Banco República, 1997
• Spring Biennale Award, Salto, 1998
• Figari Award for Career, MEC-BCU, 2014[4]

References

1. "Margaret Whyte" (in Spanish). National Museum of Visual Arts. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
2. Galería de Búsqueda, Issues 347-355 (in Spanish). Galería de Búsqueda. 2007. p. 84. Retrieved 22 May 2019 – via Google Books.
3. Haber, Alicia (22 September 2012). "Margaret Whyte: la bisabuela irreverente y subversiva creadora de arte joven" [Margaret Whyte: the Irreverent Great-Grandmother and Subversive Creator of Young Art]. El País (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
4. "Premio Figari 2014: Margaret Whyte" (in Spanish). Ministry of Education and Culture. 9 December 2014. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
5. Arte, Issue 4; Issue 6 (in Spanish). APEU Artistas Visuales. 2003. p. 33. Retrieved 22 May 2019 – via Google Books.
6. Centenario del MNAV (in Spanish). National Museum of Visual Arts. 2011. p. 62. Retrieved 22 May 2019 – via Google Books.

External links

• Official website
• Belleza compulsiva at the National Museum of Visual Arts