Fernando Luis Alvarez
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Fernando Luis Alvarez | |
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| Occupations | Gallerist, artist, art connoisseur and art activist |
| Years active | 1996–present |
| Known for | Fernando Luis Alvarez Gallery Clementina Arts Foundation The Spoon Movement The Curtain Movement The Globalhttps://grmovement.org/ Recovery Movement Brain Fitness Foundation |
Fernando Luis Alvarez is a Colombian-American art gallerist and artist based in Stamford, Connecticut. He is the founder of his eponymous art gallery, Alvarez Gallery.[1]
Biography
[edit | edit source]Early life
[edit | edit source]Alvarez was born in Greenwich, Connecticut, but raised by his grandmother Clementina in Colombia. He returned to the States at age 12.[2] He attended elementary to high school in Greenwich. He then attended Richmond, The American International University in London, where he studied international business, finance, political science, and economics.[citation needed]
In 1999, he built an ad agency called APe-Shop that outsourced creative execution to Latin America. Alvarez sold the company in 2005, traveled for a while, worked as a senior business analyst, and began a career in the art world.[3][failed verification]
Gallery
[edit | edit source]In December 2009, Alvarez opened a gallery in Stamford, CT. He completed an entire relocation to the newly named Fernando Luis Alvarez Gallery by June 2010, ultimately closing his Greenwich studio.[citation needed]
In 2017, Alvarez Gallery was only North American Gallery to ever represent Italian sculptor Arturo Di Modica (1941–2021), creator of the Charging Bull of Wall Street.[4] In December 2018, Alvarez announced that his gallery would be closed beginning January 2019.[5]
In 2022, he created a shed housing an art exhibit in Cannondale Village.[6]
Spoon Movement
[edit | edit source]In June 2018, Fernando Luis Alvarez executed guerrilla installations with Domenic Esposito[7][8] in protest of the opioid epidemic.[9] This became The Spoon Movement, whose mission was to hold accountable the architects of the opioid epidemic in particular Purdue Pharma.[10][11] They temporarily installed a 10-foot long, 800-pound steel spoon representing a "heroin spoon". It was deposited in front of the headquarters of Purdue Pharma for their role in the opioid endemic in the United States.[12][13]
Alvarez was charged with "a criminal misdemeanor and a felony" for the installation of the spoon sculpture and was arrested.[14][15][16] The sculpture was confiscated but later returned to Esposito.[17][18] Alvarez was allowed to participate in an accelerated rehabilitation program, and was cleared of the charges because he stayed away from Purdue Pharma for one year.[19][13]
References
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- ^ The Associated Press (2018): "Drug spoon sculpture placed outside drugmaker Purdue Pharma headquarters", USA Today, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/06/23/drug-spoon-sculpture-placed-outside-purdue-pharma-headquarters/727997002/, Retrieved March 19, 2023.
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- ^ Buchner, Bill, Associated Press (2018): "Judge Rules Artist Can Get Drug Spoon Sculpture Back", wshu | Public Radio, https://www.wshu.org/news/2018-08-28/judge-rules-artist-can-get-drug-spoon-sculpture-back, Retrieved March 19, 2023.
- ^ Schott, Paul (2019): "Purdue Pharma removes at HQ", The Norwalk Hour, https://www.pressreader.com/usa/the-norwalk-hour/20190514/281668256423897, Retrieved March 19, 2023.