Biography

(b buenos aires, 24 april 1922). argentine painter, graphic designer, teacher and theorist. he studied at the academia nacional de bellas artes in buenos aires from 1938. in 1944 he was a co-founder of the argentine avant-garde review arturo , which was concerned with both art and literature and led to the formation in 1945 of the asociaciÓn arte concreto invenciÓn, of which he was also one of the main instigators. in 1948 he travelled ... (view more)

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(b buenos aires, 24 april 1922). argentine painter, graphic designer, teacher and theorist. he studied at the academia nacional de bellas artes in buenos aires from 1938. in 1944 he was a co-founder of the argentine avant-garde review arturo , which was concerned with both art and literature and led to the formation in 1945 of the asociaciÓn arte concreto invenciÓn, of which he was also one of the main instigators. in 1948 he travelled to europe, where he came into contact with max bill and other swiss constructivists, whose example inspired him both as a painter and as a theorist on his return to argentina. blue with structure and a form and series (both 1950, buenos aires, mus. a. mod.) are typical of a rigorous type of painting with which he became identified. he stressed the application of such ideas, moreover, not only to art but also to social and political concerns, seeking nothing less than the transformation of the physical environment in which we live. such convictions gave coherence to all his activities from that time on, including his co-founding in 1951 of nueva visión , a review of visual culture, and his membership from 1952 of the artistas modernos de la argentina.  (hide)

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