Margaret Whyte Explained

Margaret Whyte
Birth Date:	21 February 1940
Birth Place:	Montevideo, Uruguay
Occupation:	Artist
Years Active:	1972–present
Awards:	Figari Award (2014)

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,, Amalia Nieto, Rimer Cardillo,, and .^[2] She has been a member of the (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, Lacy Duarte, and, 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,, 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]

External links

• • Belleza compulsiva at the National Museum of Visual Arts

Notes and References

1. Web site: Margaret Whyte . . Spanish . 22 May 2019.
2. Book: Galería de Búsqueda, Issues 347-355 . Galería de Búsqueda . 84 . Spanish . 2007 . 22 May 2019 . Google Books.
3. News: Margaret Whyte: la bisabuela irreverente y subversiva creadora de arte joven . Margaret Whyte: the Irreverent Great-Grandmother and Subversive Creator of Young Art . Alicia . Haber . Alicia Haber . . Spanish . 22 September 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304190530/http://arte.elpais.com.uy/margaret-whyte-la-bisabuela-irreverente-y-subversiva-creadora-de-arte-joven/ . 4 March 2016 . dead . 22 May 2019.
4. Web site: Premio Figari 2014: Margaret Whyte . . Spanish . 9 December 2014 . 22 May 2019.
5. Book: Arte, Issue 4; Issue 6 . APEU Artistas Visuales . 33 . Spanish . 2003 . 22 May 2019 . Google Books.
6. Book: Centenario del MNAV . . 62 . Spanish . 2011 . 22 May 2019 . Google Books.