Gustavo Genta's work explores sculpture and installation in a process of constant experimentation, in which form and material dialogue in an unmistakable style. His creations intertwine industrial design and abstraction, composing a system of personal and symbolic signs. In them, architecture and space are strained and reconfigured, revealing new registers and plays of light and shadow that transform the viewer's perception. With a rigorous working method, Genta articulates rational and emotional processes, balancing mass production and artisanal technique to construct a cohesive and innovative visual universe.
Trained in the early 2000s at the Uruguayan Center for Industrial Design, Genta belongs to a generation of designers shaped by the country's industrialized landscape. In his works, he draws on elements of kinetic art and Latin American abstract sculpture, resonating with artists such as Jesús Rafael Soto and Gertrud Goldschmidt (Gego). Alongside his technical expertise, he maintains ongoing research into materials, structures, and the behavior of light, resulting in sculptures "sensitive to their immediate environment," in which shadows, reflections, and subtle displacements reverberate in space as part of a luminous choreography.
Among her notable recent solo exhibitions are “Jewelry for Architecture. Networks of Light and Movement in the Air” at MAPI (Montevideo, 2025), “Seagulls” at Galeria Inox (Rio de Janeiro, 2024), “The Limits of Control” at the Iturria Foundation (Montevideo, 2024), and “Games of Perception” at Espaço Serratosa (Montevideo, 2021). In recent years, her work has also been presented in new group exhibitions dedicated to contemporary sculpture and the relationship between art, architecture, and movement, expanding her presence in the Latin American art circuit.
His international career includes Uruguay's selection for the Beijing Biennale (2021) and the development of large-scale projects, such as the "Panda Dome" in Chengdu, China, featuring monumental kinetic sculptures. Genta's work is part of important public and private collections, including the Ralli Museum (Punta del Este), the Ernesto Kimelman and Sartori Rybolovleva collections (Montevideo), and he has works on permanent display at the World Trade Center in Montevideo, such as the sculptures Espireto and Panadero. His public interventions and installations reaffirm a continuous commitment to the investigation of form, material, and space, configuring a body of work that invites the viewer to an expanded aesthetic experience, where the object transforms into relationship, movement, and perception.
