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==Early life and education==
Pablo Atchugarry wkholm]].<ref name=fundacion />
Pablo Atchugarry was born in [[Montevideo]], [[Uruguay]] on August 23, 1954. His parents, Maria Cristina Bonomi and Pedro Atchugarry Rizzo, were passionate art enthusiasts.<ref name=fundacion>[http://www.fundacionpabloatchugarry.org/en/pablo-atchugarry “Pablo Atchugarry: Biography”]. Fundacion Pablo Atchugarry. [Accessed 7 September 2016]</ref> Before setting aside his artistic ambitions to support his family, Pedro Atchugarry trained under the great Uruguayan [[Constructivism (art)|Constructivist]] [[Joaquin Torres-Garcia]] and such experience enabled him to guide his son’s artistic talents and to encourage Pablo to take up painting.<ref name=taggart2013>Atchugarry, Pablo and Eric Bryant, “Pablo Atchugarry: Lives in Stone,” in ''Pablo Atchugarry: Lives in Stone'', New York: Hollis Taggart Galleries, 2013, 18.</ref>
At age eleven, Atchugarry began showing his works and as he progressed through adolescence, he started feeling the need to express himself in various forms and materials, such as cement, iron, and wood.<ref name=biography>[http://www.hollistaggart.com/artists/pablo-atchugarry "Pablo Atchugarry: Biography”]. Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York. [Accessed 7 September 2016]</ref> By age eighteen, he had his first personal exhibition of paintings at the Civic Room in [[Montevideo]] in 1972 and he had undertaken his first experiment with sculpture – a horse cast in concrete.<ref name=taggart2013 /> In the following years as he took up and dropped architectural studies, he found venues in [[Brazil]] and [[Argentina]] to exhibit his paintings, which featured a mixture of abstraction and Constructivist concepts.<ref name=taggart2013 /> However in 1977, Atchugarry departed [[South America]] and traveled to [[Europe]].
==Career: 1977–1989==
Atchugarry’s intention in traveling to Europe was to study and perfect his art. As early as 1977, he had his first successful display at an art fair in [[Copenhagen]].<ref>Atchugarry and Bryant, ''Lives in Stone'', 19.</ref> During his travels, he visited [[Spain]], [[France]], and [[Italy]], and while visiting [[Milan]] he reconnected with a woman he had met in [[Paris]].<ref name=bryant /> She brought him to the city of [[Lecco]] where he mounted his first solo Italian show in 1978.<ref name=fundacion /> As a result of the success of the show, his paintings were exhibited in a variety of European cities, including Milan, Copenhagen, Paris, [[Chur]], [[Bergamo]], and [[Stockholm]].<ref name=fundacion />
After experimenting with a range of materials, in 1979, Atchugarry took up carving marble, and he created his first sculpture in [[Carrara marble]] entitled ''La Lumiere''.<ref name=fundacion /> His first monumental sculpture made of Carrara was completed in 1982, and later that year he moved permanently to Lecco. There, he began work on the sculpture, ''La Pieta'', which was carved from a single block of marble weighing twelve tons. In 1987 he held his first solo sculpture exhibition, curated by [[Raffaele de Grada]], in Bramantino’s Crypt in Milan.<ref name=fundacion />
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