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Born in Mar del Plata,Argentina. She's a key figure of the South American art. She's 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. 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. Christina M. Harrison writes, “Orensanz uses material and symbolic fragments—of marble, of line, of signs—to represent thoughts. … An interpretation of the work, in Orensanz’s conception, depends on the intersection of the fragments with the viewer’s own thoughts and experiences.”
Selected Collections
Jorge Perez - Miami - U.S.A
Crans Montana Ville - Switzerland
Centre Georges Pompidou CNAM, Paris, France
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France
Fond National d'Art Contemporain, Paris, France
Fondation Camille, Paris, France
Maison du Livre de l'image et du son, Ville de Villeurbanne, France
Bremen Museum, Germany
Centrum für Kunst, Vaduz, Liechtenstein.
M2A2 Musée Martiniquais des Arts des Amériques, Le Lamentin, Martinique
Museo de Arte Latinoamericano Contemporáneo de Managua, Nicaragua.
Centro de Documentación de Arte Actual, Barcelona, Spain
Centro de Arte y Comunicación (CAYC), Buenos Aires, Argentina
Colección Banco Velox, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Colección Cancillería Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Fondo Nacional de las Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Rosario (MACRO), Rosario, Argentina
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Marcos Curi, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Centro de Multimedia Internacional, São Paulo, Brazil
Public Works Outdoor monumental sculptures in public areas and projects
2023 Saudi Arabia "beyond time", Arabia Saudi Muséum of Art Contemporain with BienalSur, Diana Wechsler, 12 needles 1,50m to 4m high, in stainless steel, Ryad.
2019 USA «invisible » monumental, permanent installation. Art Basel Miami - Diana Wechsler & Florencia Battiti - Procurement Jorge Perez - 3m height - Curten
2019 Argentina «tenemos el poder de elegir » monumental, permanent installation in Tucuman - Bienalsur - Diana Wechsler & Anibal Jozami, - 5m height - Curten
2019 Argentina «invisible" Private Coleccion in Martinez - 3m height - Curten
2018 Switzerland «invisible » permanent installation. Bienalsur Diana Wechsler & Anibal Jozami - Procurement Crans-Montana - 3m height - Curten
2017 Argentina «mas alla del tiempo » permanent installation. Bienalsur Diana Wechsler & Anibal Jozami Buenos Aires,
2017 Argentina "el ambiente condiciona a la gente" ” 1srt premio Julio le Parc The Related Group - Jorge Perez Carlos & Rosso - 4m height - Curten
2015 Argentina, Neuquen «libertad » permanent installation Museo National of Bellas Artes
2012 Argentina «el poder creativo comunica a todos” - 1srt Premio, monumental, Campus de la Universidad 3 de febrero.
2012 Argentina «igualdad» - Campus University of San Martin, Bs As. Monumental
2013 Argentina «tenemos el poder de elegir» Tigre, Isla del Descanso - Claudio Stamato & Felipe Duran - material curten, 5mtros de altura por 4mts de ancho en dos partes x 0,40 mts de profundidad
2011 Argentina «Igualdad» Universidad San Martín de Buenos Aires 5-meter-high stainless-steel compass, on the campus, inauguration in 2012.
2010 Argentina “las raices son femeninas” Azucena Villaflor Memorial and the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo -3 meters high - located in Diagonal Pueyrredon and Belgrano, Mar del Plata
2001 Argentina “Para quién?... suenan las campanas” Selected by the Puerto Madero and Fundación ArteBA contest, with the installation. Bulevar Azucena Villaflor, Puerto Madero, Buenos Aires
1999 Argentina “Pensar es un hecho revolucionario” in Parque de la Memoria”, Buenos Aires
1991 France - Lycée Blanc-Mesnil, Paris, France - select by the architects: Paul Chemetov and Borja Huidobro
1985 France Project for “Zoo des Robots”, La Villette, Musée National des Sciences,Techniques &the Industries.Selected by the Conseil Régional de Franche Comté for a monumental project, Besançon
Prizes and Distinctions
2023 Distinguished Career, Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2021 Distinguished Citizen, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2020 Prix Aware - Paris - France link
2019 Chevalier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres - Paris -France
2018 Premio Nacional a la Trayectoria Artística - Ministerio de Cultura de la Nación - Buenos Aires - Argentine
1963 Premio Pio Collivadino Salon Nacional - Buenos Aires - Argentine