Casapueblo, Punta Ballena, Uruguay

by Venetia Featherstone-Witty

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Casapueblo, Punta Ballena, Uruguay

Artist

Venetia Featherstone-Witty

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Photograph - Photographs

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Casapueblo is a building constructed by the Uruguayan artist Carlos Páez Vilaró. It is located in Punta Ballena, 13 kilometres from Punta del Este, Uruguay. It was originally a summer house and workshop of the artist. It now houses a museum, an art gallery, a cafeteria and a hotel. It was the permanent residence of its creator, where he worked and spent his last days.
It was built around a wooden house made with planks found on the coast, called La Pionera (The Pioneer), by Carlos Páez Vilaró who designed it with a style that can be compared with the houses of the Mediterranean coast of Santorini, but the artist used to refer to Hornero's nest, a typical bird of Uruguay, to discuss the type of construction which took 36 years to complete. Inside is a museum, the artist's studio, an art gallery and a hotel.

It has thirteen floors with terraces that allow to see the sunset on the waters of the Atlantic ocean. The construction has a staggered shape that allows a better view towards the ocean.

It pays tribute to his son Charles, Michael and one of the seventeen Uruguayan survivors of the crash of Uruguayan 571 Air Force Flight, which crashed in the Andes on October 13, 1972.

He has received some of the most important personalities in the cultural and political ambit, such as writer Isabel Allende, the ambassador Mercedes Vicente, the sexologist Mariela Castro, the artist Vinicius de Moraes, among others.

"I built it (Casapueblo) as if it were a habitable sculpture, without plans, especially at the urging of my enthusiasm. When the municipality asked me recently for the plans it did not have, an architect friend of mine had to spend a month trying to find the way to decipher it."

— Carlos Páez Vilaró

FEATURED 12/28/17 in "Images That Excite You"
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FEATURED 12/29/17 in "Lady Photographers"
FEATURED 12/30/17 in "Art District"
FEATURED 1/11/18 in "Your Very Best Photography"
FEATURED 6/2/19 in "No Place Like Home"

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