CV & CONTACT
CURRICULUM VITAE
FRANCISCO TOMSICH
franciscotomsich@gmail.com
http://anticlimacus.wordpress.com
Cagancha 2242
11800
Montevideo
Uruguay
(+598)22099276 / (+598)99503079
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EDUCATION
2012 Degree in Modern Literature, School of Humanities and Educational Sciences, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay.
2000, 2003 National School of Fine Arts, Montevideo, Uruguay.
1990-1998 Atelier Francisco Siniscalchi, Nueva Helvecia, Uruguay.
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010-2011 Loess, Juan Manuel Blanes Museum, Montevideo, Uruguay.
2010-2011 Essai sur le enfermement, Contemporary Art Center (EAC), Montevideo, Uruguay.
2010 Casa de Medusa, Atelier Maggiolo 635, Montevideo, Uruguay.
2008 Die berliner Sphinx, Goethe Institut, Montevideo, Uruguay.
2007 Fotos encontradas, Municipal Center for Photography, Montevideo, Uruguay.
2006 Mudanza/Icaria, Ministry of Education and Culture, Montevideo, Uruguay.
2003 Jania, National Institute for the Youth, Montevideo, Uruguay.
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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012 Estuario, with Seida Lans, SOA Galley, Montevideo, Uruguay.
2012 Art in Uruguay today, organized by the Host Country Secretariat of the IDB – IIC Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors, Montevideo, Uruguay.
2010 54 National Prize for the Visual Arts, National Museum for the Visual Arts (MNAV), Montevideo, Uruguay.
2010 Do it, Contemporary Art Center (EAC), Montevideo, Uruguay.
2008 Inevitablemente pop: el alma, National Museum for the Visual Arts (MNAV), Montevideo, Uruguay.
2007 Torstrasse vs Kling & Gang Gallerí, Torstrasse 111, Berlin, Germany.
2007 52 National Prize for the Visual Arts, National Museum for the Visual Arts (MNAV), Montevideo, Uruguay.
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COLLECTIVE PROJECTS
2000-2012 Since 2000 works together with visual artists, writers and musicians exploring the notions of dissolved authorship and collective action. Co-founder of the art groups:
- .TXT Devoted to the publication and diffusion of the new tendencies in young Uruguayan literature and visual arts: http://puntotxt.wordpress.com
- PACIENTES Music group devoted to develop improvisation and composition-in-context projects: http://anticlimacus.wordpress.com/pacientes/
- TRASPUESTO DE UN ESTUDIO PARA UN RETRATO COMÚN (Transposed Study for a Common Portrait) A group of travelling visual artists and musicians devoted to portraiture. The group has developed five editions of the project in Uruguay and Brazil, produced 11 exhibitions and published 5 books: TDUEPURC #1 La Coronilla (2008), TDUEPURC #2 Conchillas (2009), TDUEPURC #3 Riozinho (2009), TDUEPURC #4 De Corrales a Tranqueras (2010) y TDUEPURC #5 FUNSA (2011). The project has been awarded and supported several times by public programs and institutions from Uruguay, Germany and Brazil.
http://traspuestodeunestudioparaunretratocomun.wordpress.com/
- Since 2006 works with the composer Vladimir Guicheff developing an investigation on the relations between music and text. Works: El cantante, chamber opera, 2006-2008; Las madres, Liederbuch for female choir, 2009-2010.
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AWARDS, SCHOLARSHIPS & RESIDENCIES
2011 Cruces, International Art Workshop, Montevideo, Uruguay.
2009 Artists in Residence Program, Pedagogical Project, VII MERCOSUR Biennal, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
2007 Scholarship Award, 52 National Prize for the Visual Arts, Ministry of Education and Culture/ Foreign Office/ Torstrasse 111, Berlin, Germany.
1999 Exchange scholarship, Celciusskolan, Uppsala, Sweden.
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PEDAGOGY
2008-2012 Independent professor of Art History of XXth-century art.
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EXPERIENCE
2008-2011 Works as visual arts and cultural projects coordinator for the Goethe Institut, Montevideo, Uruguay.
2011 Selection and curatorial work for the arts program Art & Youth, Ministry of Education and Culture, Paso de los Toros – Montevideo, Uruguay.
2010 Member of the Jury of the 2nd World Trade Center Sculpture Prize, Montevideo, Uruguay.
2009 Works in the application of the project Inside Installation in Uruguay, under the tutorship of the Reina Sofia Museum, Spain (National Museum for the Visual Arts).
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
52 Premio Nacional de Artes Visuales, Montevideo, Ministerio de Educación y Cultura, 2006.
Artur Lescher (et al), 7ª Bienal do Mercosul: grito e escuta, Porto Alegre, Fundação Bienal do Mercosul, 2009.
Ana Gallardo (et al), Marina de Caro (org), Micrópolis experimentais: traduçoes da arte para a educação, Porto Alegre, Fundação Bienal do Mercosul, 2009.
Focaccio, Diego, Inevitablemente pop: el alma, Montevideo, Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, 2008.
Grau, María Eugenia, “Diferentes generaciones y lenguajes en el arte contemporáneo”, Arte en Uruguay Hoy, Ministerio de Educación y Cultura, Host Country Secretariat of the IDB – IIC Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors, 2012.
Grau, María Eugenia, Loess, Museo Municipal Juan Manuel Blanes, 2010.
Uno, varios, casi todos, Montevideo, Contemporary Art Center (EAC) Publications, Volume II, Montevideo, 2012.
