Águeda Dicancro


Águeda Dicancro was a Uruguayan sculptor from Montevideo, noted for her plastic art. Her art is featured at the Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales in Montevideo.

Life

Dicancro studied at the University of the Republic National School of Fine Arts.
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. However she is primarily 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 the San Pablo Biennial in 1994.