Marie Orensanz

MARIE ORENSANZ
[1936, Argentina]

Marie Orensanz began her artistic career studying painting with two of the foundational artists of Argentine Modernism: Emilio Pettoruti and Antonio Seguí. An active member of the art scene in Buenos Aires in the 1960s and 1970s, she participated in the exhibitions and cultural activities organized by the Instituto Torcuato di Tella, and she was involved with the Centro de Arte y Comunicación (CAyC). In 1972, she moved to Milan. The proximity to Carrara and its marble quarries sparked her early production in stone. She has continued to work with fragments of marble, making them into books and sculptures, since the 1970s.

In 1975, Orensanz moved to Paris, eventually becoming a naturalized French citizen. Three years later, she wrote a “Manifesto of Fragmentism,” in which she outlined the conceptual basis of her works, many of which are deeply informed by the practice of drawing. Written in Spanish, English, and French, the Manifesto reads: “Fragmentism searches for integration of a part with a totality; transforms by multiple readings in an object non-terminate and unlimited, traversing time and space.”

Orensanz’s works have been shown in several important solo exhibitions, including Marie Orensanz. Distintas formas… y un mismo pensamiento, Complejo Cultural Santa Cruz, Río Gallegos, Argentina (2005); Marie Orensanz. Tout qui se voit et tout ce qui est caché, Maison de l’Amérique Latine, Paris, France (2010); Marie Orensanz. … hablamos…, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Rosario (MACRO), Argentina (2007); Marie Orensanz – 1963-2007, Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires (MAMBA), Argentina (2007); Marie Orensanz. Museo Emilio Caraffa (MEC), Córdoba, Argentina (2008); Marie Orensanz. Variaciones sobre un mismo tema, Museo Municipal de Bellas Artes Juan B. Castagnino, Rosario, Argentina (2003);

2023    
Marie Orensanz, el fluir del pensamiento, MUNTREF, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2022
Lo justo y lo escencial de Marie Orensanz, Galería Argentina de Paris, France

2019
Fragmentism: Drawing on Marble, Sicardi | Ayers | Bacino, Houston, TX, USA

2018
Exhibition Ruth Benzacar Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Shutdown! Roman Road Gallery, London, UK

2017
Arco España, Alejandra von Hartz Gallery, Miami, FL, USA
BIENAL SUR Ruben Dario plaza instalación "mas alla del tiempo", Buenos Aires, Argentina

2016
ArteBA, Buenos Aires, Galeria Alejandra von Hartz Miami "solo show", cabinet

2015
…a path to share…, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
Marie Orensanz: Quarante ans de réflexion, School Gallery, Paris, France
Antológica, Museo de Bellas Artes Neuquen (MNBA), Argentina

2014
Marie Orensanz: Works from the ‘70s, Alejandra von Hartz Gallery, Miami, FL, USA

2012
In volution, School Gallery, Paris, France
in..vo...lu...ci...on, Galería Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires, Argentina
La Indiferencia, Centro Cultural Haroldo Conti, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Dispersion, Galería Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Déflagration, School Gallery, Paris, France

2010
Marie Orensanz. Tout qui se voit et tout ce qui est caché, Maison de l’Amérique Latine, Paris, France

Art Museum of the Americas (AMA), Washington, D.C., USA

Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, France

Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

Centro de Arte y Comunicación (CAYC), Buenos Aires, Argentina

Centro de Documentación de Arte Actual, Barcelona, Spain

Centro de Multimedia Internacional, São Paulo, Brazil

Centrum für Kunst, Vaduz, Liechtenstein

Colección Banco Velox, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Colección Cancillería Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Fond National d'Art Contemporain, Paris, France

Fondation Camille, Paris, France