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Vintage acrylic painting by Americo Sposito ”Light and space by complement” 1977
Acrylic on canvas by the artist Americo Sposito (1924-2005) Titled: Light and space by complement. dated 11/24/1977
Original aluminum frame measures 21” x 21”
painting measures 20” x 20”.
Starting price $ 2300
Américo Spósito (March 29, 1924 – April 20, 2005) was a Uruguayan painter and plastic artist.
Américo Spósito began his studies at the Italian school of Enzo Kabregu. He studied at the Círculo de Bellas Artes of Montevideo and then went to the Taller Torres García in 1942.
In the 1960s he was a co-founder of the “Group 8” of Uruguay, which was made up of Óscar García Reino, Carlos Páez Vilaró, Miguel Ángel Pareja, Raúl Pavlotzky, Lincoln Presno, Alfredo Testoni and Julio Verdié, where they exhibited on several occasions, joining the movement. abstract in the 60s.3
In 1955 he represented Uruguay at the São Paulo Biennial and in 1961 he won the Blanes Prize awarded by Banco República.
In 2004 he was interviewed by Andrés Echevarría for the supplement “El País Cultural” of the newspaper El País to whom he asked upon receiving it – “Do you know what art is?” -and he answered himself-“Art is to disturb.”