(Uruguay, 1961).

Marcelo Legrand extracts from the stain something essential, vital and with it he builds the architecture of his painting. In 1977 he began his painting studies at the Circulo de Bellas Artes with the teacher Héctor Sgarbi. Starting in 1981 and throughout a decade, he dedicated himself exclusively to working with graphite on paper. With this work, he obtained multiple awards and an invitation from the Camnitzer studio (Italy) to carry out a residency in Italian Tuscany.

In 1992 he is invited to exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Caracas (Sofia Imber) and settles in Venezuela for three years. By then he takes up the color and develops and investigates a technique that includes the use of heat, water and Chinese ink on tracing paper.

On his return to his country, he delves into the vegetal papers that he had explored in Venezuela, investigates engraving, makes a series using paste discs as matrices and dedicates himself to paint large format fabrics.

Participates in collective and individual exhibitions, among which the following stand out: 1999, Corcoran Gallery of Art of Washington DC (United States); 2000, Museum of the Americas (San Juan-Puerto Rico); 2008, "Under the ground" at Artifariti (International Art Meetings in Western Sahara ); 2012, "Traces" at the National Museum of Visual Arts (Montevideo-Uruguay); 2014, "Expansions" at the Eduardo Sívori Museum of Plastic Arts (Buenos Aires-Argentina).

Since 2005 and up to the present, he has worked with the South Gallery, participating in the fairs: Arco Madrid (Spain), SP Arte y Art Río (Brazil), Arte BA (Argentina), Cornice-Venice (Italy), Art BaselMiami (United States).

His work can be found in numerous collections (1) and museums (2).

(1) It is present in the collections of Luciano Benetton, Cesar Gaviria, Jason WU, Adolfo Maslach, Ulla and Greger Olsson, Engelman Ost, Rodolfo Linás, Enrique Iglesias, Alex Vik, Fundación Batuz, Jorge Perez; and the art collections of the World Bank and the Inter-American Bank of Development in Washington DC, United States, among others.

(2) His works are in the Museum of Fine Arts "Juan Manuel Blanes" in Montevideo, Uruguay; the Museum of Contemporary Art of Caracas (Sofía Imber) and the Museum of Fine Arts of Caracas Venezuela; the National Gallery and the Art Museum of the Americas, USA; the Kupferstichkabinett Museum in Dresden, Germany; and the Museum of Visual Arts of Tacuarembó (MUART), Uruguay.