Renata Oreggia
- May 15
- 2 min read
Renata Oreggia is a Uruguayan visual artist and graphic designer based in Madrid. She grew up in Montevideo but spent weekends and holidays in the countryside, surrounded by animals, open landscapes, and folklore music her father played from an early age. Oreggia studied graphic design and worked in branding and illustration for years. She had always been painting on the side, taking oil classes, experimenting, but it stayed in the background.
She now paints full time in acrylic. Her subject is rural Uruguay, the gaucho, the horse, the bull, the dog at the foot of the chair. She is interested in taking these images out of their usual context through color and pattern. She is inspired by Joaquín Torres García and the way he arranges elements and uses symbolism to carry memory. She works with earthy tones mixed with more saturated colors and tries to introduce a quiet discomfort, a tension between what is expected and what is seen.
In her painting El Campo de Julia the horse stands for freedom, the bull for strength, the rooster announces the beginning. Don Ceferino y Su Perro is a man resting with his boots still on, the mate gone cold, his dog at his feet. El Chaqueño is a figure nobody can quite place. They call him that more out of insistence than certainty. She says in her family art was always a way to get by. She found herself turning to painting in the hardest moments. Now she paints from desire.
