Full Name Agueda Dicancro Nationality Uruguayan | Occupation sculptor Name Agueda Dicancro | |
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Águeda Dicancro is a Uruguayan sculptor from Montevideo, noted for her plastic art. Her art is featured at the Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales in Montevideo.
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Life
Dicancro studied at the University of the Republic National School of Fine Arts (Instituto Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes de la Universidad de la República).
She was awarded a scholarship from the Organization of American States and traveled to Mexico in 1964. She studied ceramics as well as gold and silver metalworking. But she is known for her sculptures made of glass, her chief material alongside wood. The combination of glass and wood could be seen in her opalescent exhibition Arborescencias at the Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales.
An Águeda Dicancro sculpture of steel and glass can be found in the Telecommunications Tower, the current location of ANTEL.
Awards
She was selected to represent Uruguay at the Venice Biennial in 1993 and at the San Pablo Biennial in 1994.