Águeda Dicancro

Rosa Dicancro (Montevideo, February 5, 1930 – August 15, 2019) was a Uruguayan sculptor renowned for her pioneering work in glass art. She studied ceramics at the Dr. Pedro Figari School of Arts and Crafts (UTU) and sculpture with Eduardo Yepes. Through an OPIC scholarship, she continued her training in Mexico at the National School of Plastic Arts and the National Institute of Fine Arts, specializing in ceramics, metalwork, silversmithing, and enameling. After initially working in metal arts, she devoted herself to glass sculpture, transforming industrial glass sheets through fire and gravity into organic forms marked by imprints and sculptural reliefs. Her work challenged the fragility of glass, incorporating light, mirrors, and wood to create spatial tension and contrasts between opacity and transparency. Dicancro exhibited internationally in Uruguay, Mexico, Italy, and Argentina, including the Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, the Istituto Italo-Latino Americano (Rome), and CAYC (Buenos Aires). She represented Uruguay at the Venice Biennale (1993) and the São Paulo Biennial (1994). She received the prestigious Figari Prize (1999) and numerous international awards. Her work is held in major public and private collections worldwide.