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Curriculum Vitae



Osvaldo Decastelli. Born in Buenos Aires in 1941, he is a visual artist with a degree from the Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes Prilidiano Pueyrredón. In the 1960s, he started working as a sculptor and art teacher . His first solo exhibition was held in 1974. In the mid-1980s, he began working with corrugated cardboard, which has been his sole material since. In the 1990s, anthological exhibitions of his work were held at the Centro Cultural Recoleta, Salas Nacionales de Cultura (Palais de Glace) and the Museo Sívori in Buenos Aires, as well as the Xunta de Galicia, Madrid. His work forms part of the following museum collections: Museo Rómulo Raggio, Buenos Aires; Museo de la Colección Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Buenos Aires; and of the collections of the following companies: Monsanto, CAPSA, Zucamor , Italpapelera, ATR. It is also in other private collections in Argentina and abroad. He lives and works in Buenos Aires.
This curriculum vitae includes all of Decastelli’s solo exhibitions and the prologues to the catalogues of his work; a selection of group shows in which he participated, and a selection of articles published on his work and activities. M.T.

 

Biographic data

2011

The first book-length monograph on his work is published.

2009

Osvaldo Decastelli. Malas hierbas, Copia de seguridad photographic installations), Arte x Arte, Fundación Alfonso y Luz Castillo, Buenos Aires.

2007

Conception and curatorship of the restaurant-café in the Museo Eduardo Sívori “Arte a punto. Una manera de cocinar el arte.” Invited artists: Ariela Naftal and Rut Rubinson in Porción de sueños.

2006

Juego de artistas 7, Museo de los Niños, Abasto, Buenos Aires. Artists from Buenos Aires and Rosario participated in the exhibition, which included eleven silk screens by Antonio Berni.

2004

Conception and curatorship of Árboles de San Telmo intervenidos por artistas, with Renée Cohen, Lea Kletnicki, Lucía Kuschnir , Marino Santa María and other artists. The project was sponsored by the Dirección de Museos del Gobierno de la Ciudad, the Subsecretaría de Turismo, the Asociación de Anticuarios and Amigos de San Telmo.

2003

From this year until November 2010, he has been the director and curator of the Decastelli-Arte space, San Telmo, Buenos Aires.
Premio Fundación Banco Ciudad a las Artes Visuales, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires.
Celebración del juguete, Centro Cultural Borges, Buenos Aires. With Luis Benedit, Alicia Carletti, Blas Castagna, Adolfo Nigro, Clorindo Testa and others. Curator: J.M. Taverna Irigoyen.
Escultura, Casa FOA, Espacio Juan Azcue, Buenos Aires.
Juego de artistas 4, Museo de los Niños, Abasto, Buenos Aires.
With Alicia Carletti, María Silvia Corcuera Terán, Mariano Cornejo,
Luis Grosclaude, Adolfo Nigro and others.
2002

Curator of the exhibition Rut Rubinson. Una valija, un viaje, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires. Prologue by Julio Sánchez.
Basta de mujeres, Galería Ática, Buenos Aires. Curator: Juan Carlos Romero.

2001

Las camitas, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires. With Bastón Díaz, León Ferrari, María Juana Heras Velasco, Dalila Puzzovio and others.
Osvaldo Decastelli. Reconocemos-no-reconocernos (light installation and photographic collages), Galería Ática, Buenos Aires.

2000

Animarte, Salas Nacionales de Cultura, Palais de Glace, Buenos Aires. With Mariano Cornejo, Nora Correas, Nicolás García Uriburu, Carlos Gorriarena, Zulema Maza, Luis Felipe Noé, Ernesto Pesce, Pablo Suárez and others. Project: David Alejandro Ramos.

1999

From this year until the present, he has made use of digital photography in his work.

1998

Osvaldo Decastelli. Estigma (installation), Museo Eduardo Sívori, Buenos Aires. He designed his home-studio in the Colegiales section of Buenos Aires. Rostros de la máscara en la Argentina, Museo de Arte Hispanoamericano Isaac Fernández Blanco, Buenos Aires. With Felipe Pino, Osvaldo Monzo, Marta Minujín, Carlos Bissolino, Marcia Schvartz, Alfredo Prior , Clorindo Testa and others. Curator: Silvia de Ambrosini. arteBA, Buenos Aires, Bettina West stand. Libros de artista (un nuevo género), Museo Municipal de Bellas Artes Juan B. Castagnino, Rosario, Santa Fe. With Rodolfo Agüero, Roberto Elía, Matilde Marín, Alfredo Portillos, Luis Felipe Noé, Mabel Rubli and others. Moda en el Museo, Museo Metropolitano de Buenos Aires. Clothing by Bettina West with images by Nora Correas, Ana Eckell, Osvaldo Decastelli, Leónidas Gambartes, Héctor Medici, Adolfo Nigro, Lucrecia Orloff and Teresa Pereda. Muestralacartera, Espacio Giesso, Buenos Aires. Curator: Osvaldo Giesso. Buenos Aires Papel 98, Primera Bienal Latinoamericana de Arte con Papel Hecho a Mano, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires. Feria de Arte, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires. With Oscar Bony, Gyula Kosice, Marcia Schvartz, Pablo Siquier , Juan Stopani, Mónica Van Asperen and others. Project conception and organization: Dalila Puzzovio and Teresa Anchorena.
1997

arteBA, Buenos Aires, Bettina West stand.
Calzar el arte, Art House, Buenos Aires. With Sylvie Geronimi, shoe designer , and artists María Silvia Corcuera, Nora Correas, Mirtha Dermisache, David Lamelas, Liliana Porter , Antonio Seguí and others. Curator: Silvia de Ambrosini.
Colección abanicos, Bettina West, Museo Metropolitano, Buenos Aires. With the participation of twenty-one artists, including Nora Correas, Ana Eckell, Héctor Medici and Teresa Pereda.

1996

Osvaldo Decastelli. Esculturas, Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes, Salta.
Osvaldo Decastelli. Libros objeto, Galería Ática, Buenos Aires. 306 artistas con la ciencia, Museo de la Colección Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Buenos Aires. With Gabriela Aberastury, Carlos Carmona, Aurelio Macchi, Matilde Marín, Luis Felipe Noé, Rogelio Polesello, Marcia Schvartz, Luis Seoane, Clorindo Testa and others.

1995

Decastelli. Inventario de imaginantes, 1985-1995, Salas Nacionales de Cultura, Palais de Glace, Buenos Aires.
Osvaldo Decastelli. Un espacio corrugado, touring show presented t the Centro Cultural Victoria Ocampo, Villa Victoria, Mar del Plata, nd the Museo Municipal de Escultura Luis Perlotti, Buenos Aires.

1994

Osvaldo Decastelli. Esculturas objeto en cartón corrugado 1985/1994, Xunta de Galicia, Madrid.
arteBA, Buenos Aires, Galería del Buen Ayre stand.

1993

Osvaldo Decastelli. El cartón corrugado: otro posible del arte, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires.

1992

From this year until the present, his work has entailed sculpture, object and installation.
arteBA, Buenos Aires, Galería del Buen Ayre stand.
1991

Escultura argentina del siglo XX, Salas Nacionales de Cultura, Palais de Glace, Buenos Aires. With Pablo Curatella Manes, Libero Badii, Enio Iommi, Gyula Kosice, Marta Minujín, Juan Paparella, Alicia Penalba, Juan Carlos Distéfano and others.
Project conception and direction: María del Carmen Carbi.
Esculgourmandise 91, Palais de Glace, Buenos Aires.

1990

Osvaldo Decastelli. La figuración y el corrugado, Centro Cultural Ciudad de Buenos Aires.
He designed his weekend house in Tortuguitas, Buenos Aires province.

1987

Osvaldo Decastelli, Galería Amicitia, Buenos Aires.
Group exhibition at Sisley Gallery. With Antonio Berni, Horacio Butler , Leopoldo Presas, Raúl Soldi and other artists. Curators: Luisa and Victoria Barreiro.

1986

He created a mural for a project by architects Bacigalupo, Repetto and Tomaro.
arteBA, Buenos Aires, Galería del Buen Ayre stand.

1985

Osvaldo Decastelli. Del cartón al bronce, Galería Amicitia, Buenos Aires.
From this year until the present, he has used corrugated cardboard in all of his work.

1984

Group exhibition Brecht y la paz, Teatro IFT, Buenos Aires.

1983

From this year until 1995, he worked with the Cono Sur Gallery, Washington; Sisley Gallery, Buenos Aires, and Galería del Buen Ayre, Buenos Aires.

1982

Solo exhibition at Galería El Ágora, Buenos Aires.

1981

Solo exhibition at Galería Estudio, Buenos Aires.

1979

He opened his own studio, where he has taught exclusively since.