JOSE GURVICH (Zusmanus Gurvicius),
Born in Lithuania, 1927; died in New York, 1974
A violin student along with Horacio, the younger son of Torres-García,
Gurvich studied with Torres-García and was a part of the Taller Torres-García until 1962.
He spent several years on an Israeli kibbutz and traveled in France and Italy before
settling in New York in 1970.
Gurvich achieved a unique style as well as technical mastery.
His work is populated with figures and images that combine the iconography
of his Jewish upbringing, the formative years with Torres-García,
his great admiration for Breughel and Bosch and a life spent in Montevideo, Israel and New York.
One Person Exhibitions:
| 1999 |  | José Gurvich, Montevideo, Uruguay |
| 1998 | | José Gurvich, Centro Cultural Borges, Buenos Aires |
| 1997 | | José Gurvich, Museo de Bellas Artes, Montevideo |
| 1995 | | José Gurvich, un canto a la vida, Galería de la Matriz, Punta del Este, Uruguay |
| 1994 | | Homage, José Gurvich, Cecilia de Torres, Ltd., New York |
| 1987 | | Galería Sur, Punta del Este, Uruguay |
| 1985 | | Homage Retrospective, Haifa University, Israel |
| 1972 | | Lerner-Misrarachi Gallery, New York |
| 1970 | | Negev en Bersheva Museum, Israel
Couturier Gallery, Stamford, Connecticut |
| 1967 | | National Commission of Fine Arts, Montevideo |
| 1960 | | Galería Americana, Montevideo |
| 1959 | | Amigos del Arte, Montevideo |
| 1958 | | Galería Arte Bella, Montevideo |
| 1956-70 | | Katz-Idan Gallery, Tel-Aviv |
| 1955 | | Galeria San Marco, Rome |
Group Exhibitions:
| 1998: | | The School of the South, Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, New York
La Escuela del Sur - El Taller Torres-García, Iturralde Gallery, Los Angeles, Cal.
| 1997: | | A Escola do Sul, Pavilhão Cultural Renée Behar, São Paulo, Brazil
La Escuela del Sur, Museo Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
T-G y 10 Artistas del Taller, Galería Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Dibujos en papel, Galería Clavé, Caracas, Venezuela
El Taller Torres-García, Museo Central de Costa Rica, San Juan |
| 1996: | | El espiritu de Latina Americana, Associated American Artists, New York
The Still Life, Cecilia de Torres, Ltd. , New York
Le Cercle de Torres-García, Zabriskie Gallery, Paris
Constructive Universalism-School of the South, Art Museum of the Americas,
Washington, D.C.
TTG, Praxis Gallery, New York |
| 1995: | | 65 Years of Constructivist Wood, Cecilia de Torres, Ltd., New York |
| 1994: | | Torres-García y la Escuela del Sur, Quinta Galeria, Bogotá, Colombia |
| 1993: | | El Taller Torres-García, The School of the South, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid;
Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, Austin; |
| 1991 | | Museo de Monterrey & Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico;
The Bronx Museum, N. Y. |
| 1989: | | Arte Contemporaneo Uruguayo, Tetriakov Gallery, Moscow;
Italo-Latinoamericano Institute, Rome |
| 1978: | | Galería Fauna, Madrid |
| 1973: | | Temple Israel, Great Neck, New York |
| 1972: | | Fería de la opinion latinoamericana, San Clemente Church, New York, |
| 1971: | | Selected Works from Latin America, Stamford Musuem, Connecticut |
| 1967: | | One Hundred Years of Uruguayan Paintings, Corcoran Gallery, Wash., D.C. |
| 1960: | | Art and Space, University of Chile, Santiago |
| 1949-43: | | TTG exhibitions in Uruguay, Argentina, France, Italy, United States |
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Works for public spaces:
| 1970 | | mural, Ramot Menasche Kibbutz |
| 1963 | | mural, Caja de Compesaciones de la Cooperatriva del Frigoífico del Cerro, architect Vaia |
| 1962 | | bas relief (plaster), El Malecón Building, Montevideo |
| 1961 | | mural (fresco), entrance hall, building on Sarmiento Street,
architect Luis San Vicente, Montevideo |
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