Américo Spósito occupies a unique place in the history of Uruguayan art. This creator is included in a small group of Uruguayan artists made up of Pedro Figari, Joaquín Torres García, Miguel Ángel Pareja and Rod Rothfuss, who not only produced an exceptional work that defined an era, but also worried and occupied themselves with developing a theoretical thought to try to understand art and at the same time justify its production, beyond forms and techniques. And with the exception of Figari, they also exerted teaching as a third element (production, reflection and transmission) that completed and delineated their place in society as visual artist.
His actions and his recognition were very significant during the 1950s and 1960s, decades of significant participation in national and international salons, biennials and awards. However, in the 1970s, during the military dictatorship, the artist withdrew into his private life and stopped exhibiting and participating in public competitions, although, like many, he continued with the essential teaching activity. Later, during the eighties and nineties, he was recognized as a teacher and a fundamental reference within local art.
The exhibition is based on works spanning between 1982 and 2004 decades during which Spósito defined and concretized the ambitions and scope of his artistic project. The aesthetic, ethical, religious, scientific and existential problems of man were the center of his philosophical meditations that he transferred to the universe of painting.