Gervasio Troche

By LatAm ARTE

Gervasio Troche, known simply as "Troche" was born in Buenos Aires on November 28, 1985. He is a Uruguayan cartoonist born in Argentina. He was born in the Avellaneda party and is the son of parents exiled in Argentina after the coup in Uruguay in 1973. With the advent of the Argentine dictatorship, the family moved to France and then to Mexico. With the end of the Uruguayan dictatorship, in 1985, the family returned to Montevideo. In the 2000s he studied in the workshop of "Tunda Prada and Fermín Hontou" (Ombú) and published in the neighborhood newspaper La Teja, called "El Tejano" and published a magazine with his character "Mangrullo". He studied at the National School of Fine Arts in Montevideo. In 2006 he began working in the newspaper "La República", where his drawings were published for five or six years. In 2009 he created a blog where he began to show his works, and for which he became known in Argentina, Brazil and Spain. A selection of the works published on that blog was published in his first book, entitled "Invisible Drawings", in 2013, by the "Sudamericana" publishing house. This book was published in Brazil under the title "Desenhos invisíveis" and in France as "Invisible Dessins", in 2014 and 2015 respectively. He held his first solo exhibition in 2012, and he has had exhibitions in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay. Likewise, he collaborates with several Uruguayan media and other parts of the world, such as “Folha de S. Paulo” and “La Nación”. In 2015 he painted a large mural in the “Sesc Ipiranga” and that same year he published his second book with the “Criatura” publishing house, which includes another selection of drawings published on his blog between 2012 and 2015.

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