ZURICH.- The exhibition Construir Desconstruyendo offers a glimpse at the fascinating work of rediscovered Uruguayan artist Wifredo Díaz Valdéz (born 1932), who creates unusual wooden sculptures out of imaginatively deconstructed everyday objects. Wifredo Díaz Valdéz constructs artworks by disassembling furniture, tools, and all sorts of everyday utensils to be found in rural Uruguay, and doing so with the greatest artisanal precision and love of detail. But this well-planned dismantling is not about destruction, but rather the creation of something entirely new. The artist begins by analyzing the object he has selected according to its organic quality, considers the conditions of its wooden structure, the texture of its surface, among other things, before moving on to thinking about possible new volumes as they emerge, and the ultimate artistic