{{Short description|Uruguayan painter (1937–2015)}} {{family name hatnote|Duarte|Cardoso|lang=Spanish}} {{Infobox person |name=Lacy Duarte |image=Lacy Duarte.jpg |caption= |birth_name=Elvira Lacy Duarte Cardoso |birth_date=15 September 1937 |birth_place=Mataojo, Salto Department |death_date={{death date and age|2015|12|27|1937|09|15|df=y}} |death_place=Montevideo |occupation=Visual artist |known_for= |awards=Figari Award }}
'''Elvira Lacy Duarte Cardoso''' (15 September 1937 – 27 December 2015) was a Uruguayan visual artist.<ref>{{cite news|title=Tiempo y tiempo|url=http://ladiaria.com.uy/articulo/2015/12/tiempo-y-tiempo/|accessdate=28 December 2015|work=La Diaria|date=28 December 2015|language=es}}</ref>
==Biography== Elvira Lacy Duarte Cardoso was born in Mataojo, Salto Department in Uruguay on 15 September 1937 near the border with Brazil, a rural area that would come to characterize her artwork. In 1952, she moved to the City of Salto and two years later entered the Horacio Quiroga Association's Figari Workshop, where she attended classes with painters José Cziffery, himself trained in the Paris workshop of Henri Matisse,<ref name=Pais>{{cite web|title=Biografía de Lacy Duarte|url=http://muva.elpais.com.uy/flash/PB_LACY_DUARTE/pdf/LACY_DUARTE_BIO_sp.pdf|website=muva.elpais.com.uy|publisher=El País|accessdate=26 January 2013|language=es}}</ref> and {{ill|Ernesto Aroztegui|es}}.<ref name=MNAV>{{cite web|title=Lacy Duarte|url=http://mnav.gub.uy/cms.php?a=827|website=mnav,gub.uy|publisher=Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales|accessdate=6 November 2017|language=es}}</ref>
In 1959 Duarte married fellow painter Aldo Peralta and had two children, Pablo and {{ill|Pedro Peralta (artist)|es|Pedro Peralta (artista)|lt=Pedro}}, who both also became painters.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Rodríguez Guglielmone|first1=Malena|title=El arte en la sangre: Lacy Duarte y sus hijos, Pablo y Pedro Peralta|url=http://www.revistadossier.com.uy/content/view/519/154/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130421175312/http://www.revistadossier.com.uy/content/view/519/154/|url-status=dead|archive-date=2013-04-21|accessdate=4 February 2013|work=Revista Dossier|date=April 2010|language=es}}</ref> In 1962, this family moved to San Carlos in Maldonado Department where Duarte began teaching secondary education drawing classes and began to learn weaving. In 1975, the family fled from the civic-military dictatorship of Uruguay to Porto Alegre, Brazil, and left the ''Duarte Tapices'' tapestry workshop to local weavers. Aldo died in 1981, and Duarte returned Montevideo shortly thereafter and resumed painting. In 1986, she was selected to represent Uruguay at the 1987 Havana Biennial and her art would exhibit in the United States and Europe.<ref name=LaRepública>{{cite news|title=Lacy Duarte en Venecia|url=http://www.lr21.com.uy/mujeres/183995-lacy-duarte-en-venecia|accessdate=26 January 2013|work=La República|date=16 July 2008|language=es}}</ref><ref name=MNAV/>
In 1990, Duarte started a series of artwork that included paintings and objects such as wood carvings, bread crumbs, ragged bedspreads, the condition of women and their children in the countryside and people performing rural tasks (Farmers, hunters, trappers, etc.). This project, entitled ''Memoria y ritos en el espacio de la mujer campesina'', referred to the differences Duarte observed between urban and rural Uruguayans. This series would exhibit at the Juan Manuel Blanes Museum in the Prado neighborhood of Montevideo, Rio Grande do Sul Museum of Art in Porto Alegre, Linda Moore Gallery in San Diego, California and at the biennials in Paris and Cuenca among other examples of Uruguayan art.<ref name=Pais/>
In 2011, Duarte joined the National Visual Arts Commission of the Uruguayan Ministry of Education and Culture.<ref>{{cite web|title=Comisión Nacional de Artes Visuales|url=http://cultura.mec.gub.uy/innovaportal/file/64276/1/2011-11-0003-1805_comision_de_artes_visuales.pdf|website=cultura.mec.gub.uy|publisher=Uruguayan Ministry of Education and Culture|accessdate=28 December 2015|language=es|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304121803/http://cultura.mec.gub.uy/innovaportal/file/64276/1/2011-11-0003-1805_comision_de_artes_visuales.pdf|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>
In 2012, Duarte exhibited ''Pensado Campo: Recurrencias de Lacy Duarte'' at the {{ill|Museo Figari|es}} and ''Tiempo y Tiempo'' at the {{ill|Museo Gurvich|es}}, both in Montevideo.<ref>{{cite web|title="TIEMPO + TIEMPO" DE LACY DUARTE|url=http://www.fadu.edu.uy/patio/conferencias-exposiciones-y-seminarios/tiempo-tiempo-de-lacy-duarte.html|website=fadu.edu.uy|publisher=Faculty of Architecture, University of the Uruguayan Republic|accessdate=6 November 2017|language=es|date=10 July 2012}}{{Dead link|date=July 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
Lacy Duarte died in Montevideo, aged 78.<ref name=Pais/>
===Awards=== In 2002, the Central Bank of Uruguay awarded Duarte the Figari Award, named in honor of Uruguayan painter Pedro Figari, in recognition of her career of art.<ref name=Museo>{{cite web|title=Pensado Campo: Recurrencias de Lacy Duarte|url=http://cultura.mec.gub.uy/innovaportal/v/26066/8/mecweb/pensado_campo:_recurrencias_de_lacy_duarte?parentid=13740|website=cultura.mec.gub.uy|publisher=Museo Figari|accessdate=26 January 2013|language=es|archive-date=5 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160105175725/http://cultura.mec.gub.uy/innovaportal/v/26066/8/mecweb/pensado_campo:_recurrencias_de_lacy_duarte?parentid=13740|url-status=dead}}</ref>
In 2005, she represented Uruaguay at the Venice Biennale with an installation that "reflected the neat poverty" of the Uruguayan countryside.<ref name=LaRepública/>
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==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20130120220133/http://muva.elpais.com.uy/flash/muva.htm?&lang=sp&flr=PB&rom=ROOM&num=1 A gallery of Lacy Duarte's paintings]
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