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Alejandro ABT
He was born in the city of Córdoba on May 9th 1956. He studied at the School of Fine Arts “Dr. Figueroa Alcorta," located in the province of Córdoba, where he graduated as Teacher. He had several collective exhibitions organized at Palais de Glâce, Buenos Aires, at the National University of Patagonia, Comodoro Rivadavia; another one in Punta Arenas, Chile and at the Salta National Salon, among others. He mounted individual exhibitions at the Art Gallery of the Maritime Museum of Ushuaia, at the Ushuaia Provincial Culture Salons and at the Beban House, also located in Ushuaia. He received several awards, such as the Second Prize at the Salon of Commodities Exchange Foundation of Bahía Blanca (1991), the First ECO 95 Prize, Ushuaia (1995) and a Mention of the Jury, National Salon, Santa Cruz province (1996 and 1997), among others. He lives in the town of Ushuaia, where he works as a teacher at the Multipurpose Arts Center and at the Ushuaia Culture House.
Miguel ALEMANY
He was born in Buenos Aires on July 9th 1933. He was a student at Manuel Belgrano and Prilidiano Pueyrredón Fine Arts Schools. He graduated from the latter in 1957. He took part in several collective exhibitions organized at Traditional San Isidro and other local entities, exhibiting his paintings and sculptures. He participated in some exhibitions organized by the Itinerant Marine Art Museum, the most important being the following – Casa Amarilla (The Yellow House, 2000), Tres Próceres de la Campaña Libertadora (Three heroes of the Liberation Campaign, 2001), Regreso del Irízar (The return of the Irízar, 2002), and Corbeta Uruguay (The Uruguay Corvette, 2003). He was awarded the First Prize of the contest organized by the Argentine Catholic University of Martínez (1959) and the Third Prize of the San Fernando Sculpture Salon, Buenos Aires (2000), among others. He lives in Buenos Aires, where he works as a decorator and restorer, among other jobs.
Antonio ALICE
He was born on February 23rd, 1886. Since the age of 12, he studied at Decoroso Boninfanti's workshop, until he was 18 years old. In 1904, he was granted a scholarship which allowed him to continue his studies at the Torino Royal Academy. Thus, he traveled to Torino with his teacher and by 1905 he received a Gold Medal in such Academy. In Torino, he met José León Pagano, and this meeting is represented in his works by a turn toward historical compositions. He participated in the exhibition that took place in the Centenary of the 1910 Revolution Salon, where he was awarded the Gold Medal. The following year, he won the First Prize at the First National Salon, and in 1915 he was awarded the Honorable Medal at the San Francisco exhibition, in California. He had exhibitions organized in several Argentine salons and presented individual exhibitions in Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Madrid, Torino, Genoa, Venice, Munich, and Paris. He died in Buenos Aires on August 24th 1943.
Mónica ALVARADO
She was born in Ushuaia on July 16th 1967. She studied at the National Fine Arts School “Prilidiano Pueyrredón,” and got a degree on Artistic Training in Painting from the National School of Higher Education in Fine Arts "Ernesto de la Cárcova". She had several exhibitions organized in Ushuaia – at the Beban House, at the Art Gallery of the Maritime Museum of Ushuaia, at the Culture House and also in Puerto Williams, Río Grande, Punta Arenas, Río Gallegos, Trelew, Neuquén, and Buenos Aires.
She was granted several scholarships and she has a permanent exhibition at her house-workshop.
She currently lives in Ushuaia, where she works as a high school Art teacher, and she is also president of the Cultivar Foundation. Since 1999, and together with René Vergara, she is a coordinator of the "Peace and Dignity Day" in Ushuaia, a movement comprised by different towns, entities, and communities from the American continent.
Luis de AQUINO
Luis Isabelino de Aquino was born in Buenos Aires in 1895. He was a self-taught painter. He was director of the Town Council American Hispanic Art Museum "Isaac Fernández Blanco," located in Buenos Aires.
In 1947, he was awarded the Prize of the Town Council Salon "Manuel Belgrano." His works reflect a remarkable influence of Fernando Fader, a painter native from Córdoba, and this influence is seen both in his color and mixing techniques. He died in Buenos Aires in 1968.
His work "Mouth of the Riachuelo" an oil on wood, made in 1960 is exhibited in the Marine Art Museum of Ushuaia.
Luis ARIAS
He was born in Rivera, Uruguay, on September 21st, 1953. From his childhood, he studied at several workshops, such as the sculpture workshop of Professor Bulmini, and the Montevideo "Lara" Workshop, and he also studied engraving techniques with Luis Solari, among others.
In 1987, he entered the National Fine Arts School of the University of the Republic, from where he graduated in 1998. In 2000, he was granted a scholarship by the AECI for studying at the San Fernando Royal Academy, National Chalcography Institute of Madrid. He mounted several individual and collective exhibitions in Madrid, Washington, New York, Porto Alegre, Toronto, and Uruguay. He currently lives in Uruguay, where he works as a teacher in his workshop located in the town of Punta del Este, and he also teaches in Montevideo, at the Uruguay Notaries Public Association Workshop.
Carmen AYALA
She was born in Buenos Aires in 1932. She took a course on Interior Architecture at the Museum "Rómulo Raggio" in Buenos Aires, and she studied drawing and painting with Jorge Benedini, Daniela Jozami, and Jorge González Perrín. Some of her most important exhibitions were the following – American Culture House (1997), Salon "81º Anniversary of the Popular University of La Boca" (2001), Town Council Plastic Arts Museum "Manuel Belgrano" (2001), Culture House of Avellaneda (2001). She recived Mentions in the American Culture House in 1998 at the SAAP. She was granted a prize at the Autumn Salon in 2001 and also won the First Prize and Gold Medal in the 2001 Women Salon, Banco Ciudad de Buenos Aires.
The works "Chatarras", "Dársena Sud" and "Don Carlos" are part of the collection of the Marine Art Museum of Ushuaia "
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María Elena BENEITO
She was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is Professor of Art, and Licensed in Journalism. She has made numerous advanced training courses and improvement, among them is possible to mention the studio made with David Alfaro Siqueiros. He is responsible for the edition of the “First Yearbook of Argentine Art 2006”, made with the auspice of the Secretariat of Culture of the Nation, the Argentina Association of Directors of Museums, and other important organizations. She has participated in several Salons, like the Salon of International Plastic Arts (1998) and International Sacred Art Salon (2000), and she made several exhibitions in Buenos Aires, Ushuaia and Mexico. She lives in Vicente López, Buenos Aires.
Iginio “Gino” BENSA
He was born in Gorizia, Italy, in 1920. At the age of eleven he arrived in Argentina. He lived in Buenos Aires, where he studied drawing and painting, in Fine Arts. He was a student of Alcides Gubellini. With a strong impressionist style, he was caught by the Boca landscape on which he made true works of art. In 1974 he exhibited watercolors at the Luchetti salon, in 1978 at the HACOAJ Nautical Club in Tigre, at the Boston Bank Foundation. He obtained special mention at the Salón Marinista 1977, and at the “Salón de los Barrios” in 1978. 2nd Prize “Salón Marinista” 1978. He worked as an illustrator for various commercial and advertising firms. Bensa lets go of his hand and creates paintings that remind us of the watercolor technique. He painted suburb motifs and tango images. In “Pescadores en el Riachuelo”, one sees activity, exchange, nerve, a movement with his brush that differentiates it from the stillness in the images of many of the works of the masters of the School of Mouth. Part of his works are in the Quinquela Martin Museum, in private collections in Argentina, Venezuela, Brazil and the United States. He died in 2000 in Villa Carlos Paz, Córdoba
Antonio BERNI
He was born in 1905, in the city of Rosario, Argentina. He started his artistic studies in a stained-glass workshop and then took drawing lessons in Centre Catalá, in Rosario.
In 1925, he was granted a scholarship to study in Europe, where he often visited André Lhote and Othon Friesz's workshops. There, he joined the Paris Group, which was made up of Argentine artists and writers, and he also had an insight into surrealism.
In 1933, together with David Alfaro Siqueiros, Lino Enea Spilimbergo, Juan Carlos Castagnino and Enrique Lázaro, he took part in the composition of a mural, located in Natalio Botana's farm (Botana owned Crítica, a newspaper of the time). In 1943, he founded the Mural Art Workshop.
In the developed of his works of art, we can mention the following series – Juanito Laguna, character appearing around the late 1950´s, who lives in a shantytown and through whom Berni stated the social difference theme by using collage and joinery techniques; Ramona Montiel, appearing in 1962, a modern courtesan whose image Berni reproduced by applying xilocollage (a combination of embossing and collage techniques), embossing, collage and the combination of different materials; Los monstruos (The monsters) in 1964, in which was made using joinery techniques with scrap material.
In 1920, he had his first exhibition organized in Rosario. The following year, the Witcomb Gallery in Buenos Aires presented the exhibition El niño Antonio Berni y sus cuadros (Antonio Berni, the child, and his paintings), which was really successful. Throughout his career, he had several exhibitions organized in the world's main capital cities, and his plastic and theoretical works greatly influenced the development of Argentine art.
Among Berni's most important awards, there are the following: Acquisition Prize of the Argentine National Salon (1943); Embossing and Drawing Prize of the XXXI Venice Biennial (1962). He died in Buenos Aires, on October 13th 1981.
The Marine Art Museum of Ushuaia has in its collection the engraving, “Juanito pescando”.
Emilio BIGGERI
He was born in Buenos Aires, on April 22nd 1907.
He was an overseas captain. In 1921, he started his artistic studies in the Fine Arts Academy, and then gave them up in order to join several drawing and painting workshops.
His paintings represent the main naval combats in which the Almirante Brown battleship took part, and also depict some other ships such as the Presidente Sarmiento and Libertad frigates, and other ships that comprised the Argentine fleet, such as Hércules, 25 de Mayo, among others.
Using both oil and watercolor painting, he performed a huge naval history reconstruction, emphasizing the role of ships on the high seas, sailing ships, steam ships, and warships.
He acted as a consultant in the external decoration of the Libertad frigate and in the building of its figurehead, and also designed commemorative medals minted by the Department of Naval History Studies.
He had individual exhibitions organized in Buenos Aires between 1960 and 1963.
He died in Buenos Aires, on August 4th 1977.
Sergio BOCCACCIO
He was born in Argentina, 1965. He studied Stage scene and Illumination in the Teatro Colón of Buenos Aires, and received a scholarship to attend the studio of drawing and painting of Robert Páez. He made several exhibitions, between which we can mention: Gallery Center of Art Century XXI, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. (2006), Exhibition Gallery Sara García Uriburu in ARTEBA (2002), Centro Cutural Recoleta, Buenos Aires (2000), among others. He made the mural “Mobility” for the Convention Center Het Koopman Huis, Leusden in Holland, in 2001. He obtained in 1997, a Mention in drawing, in the XLII Hall Plastic Arts “Manuel Belgrano”, of Buenos Aires, among other prizes and distinctions. He made several exhibitions in the Art Gallery of the Maritime Museum of Ushuaia and in the Marine Art Museum of Ushuaia his works "Colision" and "Regata XXI" are exhibited.
He lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Decoroso BONIFANTI
He was born in the Italian town of Chiavari on June 24th 1860. He was trained as an artist in the Real Academia Albertina in Torino and came to Argentina in 1884 in order to work on an important mural in the Immigrants Hotel, located at the North Dockon in the harbor of Buenos Aires. He settled in La Boca neighborhood.
His works of arts were exhibited in Torino Promotrice between 1883 and 1905. Others of his works of art were also exhibited in the Circolo degli Artitsti between 1905 and 1925, before and after his stay in Argentina. In Buenos Aires, the Witcomb Gallery commemorated him with an exhibition in 1937.
Bonifanti was a great master of several Argentine artists, such as Emilio C. Agrelo (1856-1933), Cupertino del Campo (1837-1967), and Antonio Alice (1886-1943).
Bonifanti died in his home town in 1941. The Marine Art Museum of Ushuaia has a marina and a landscape of his authorship.
Ítalo BOTTI
He was born in Buenos Aires, on January 6th 1889. He started his studies in the National Fine Arts Academy and completed them in 1916.The typical topics represented in his works of art are marinas on the Riachuelo, harbor activities, urban landscapes of Buenos Aires and the mountains of Córdoba, where he settled and lived for a long time. As an engraver, etching was his specialty and he also used several polychrome techniques. In 1919, he had his first individual exhibition organized in the Castellani Salon in the city of Rosario. The following year, he had another exhibition organized, this time in the National Arts Association Salons. He also sent some of his works of art to Argentine art exhibitions organized overseas, especially in Italy, Spain, France, and the United States. He took part in collective exhibitions organized in the Watercolorists and Engravers Society, in the Embossing and Drawing Salon in Buenos Aires and in the Embossing Salon in the city of Rosario. There follow some of his awards – National Salon Cecilia Grierson Prize (1922), Eduardo Sívori Prize (1924), Second Prize of the Manuel Belgrano Municipal Salon (1925), Second National and First Municipal Prize (1930), First Prize in the Paris International Exhibition (1961), among others. His works "Apunte del Riachuelo" and "En La Boca (dock with houses)" are in the collection of the Marine Art Museum of Ushuaia. He passed away in Buenos Aires in February 1974.
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Mercedes CAMPOS
She was born in Ushuaia on June 10th, 1944. In Argentina, she took several painting courses with Professor Gonzalo Gorostiaga, on the Trompe l'oeil specialty (1999-2004), and she also studied watercolor techniques with Professor Leonora Gari (2003-2004). In Washington D.C. (U.S.A.), she took portrait courses at the Corcoran Museum. She currently paints old and modern ships for the Argentine Navy, as well as portraits and landscapes of Northern Argentina. She mounted several exhibitions in Buenos Aires, Ushuaia, and Washington. She lives and works in Buenos Aires. The works "La Merced 1848", "The cruise ship Gral. Belgrano in its last port ... Ushuaia" and "Patrullera A.R.A. Zurubí 1944 ”, is in the collection of the Marine Art Museum of Ushuaia.
Ceferino CARNACINI
Son of Italian immigrants, he was born in La Boca neighborhood on April 10th, 1888.
He studied in Verona. At the age of eighteen, he returned to Buenos Aires and entered the Fine Arts Academy. He studied with masters Reinaldo Giudici, Ernesto De la Cárcova, and Carlos Ripamonte. He also studied with Giulio Arístide Sartorio in Rome.
In 1914, he held his first exhibition at the Witcomb Gallery and continued to display his work on a regular basis for fifty years.
He died in Buenos Aires, on March 18th, 1964.
His work has a post-Impressionist character and he painted in oils as well as in tempera displaying total mastery. Landscapes were his favorite topics, but he was also an excellent portrait artist and he even painted some still life works and flowers. A work of his authorship, "Storm in Mar del Plata" is in the Marine Art Museum of Ushuaia.
Juan Carlos CASTAGNINO
He was born in the city of Mar del Plata on November 18th, 1908. He studied architecture and then entered the School of Higher Education in Fine Arts "Ernesto de la Cárcova." He also studied at the workshops of some Argentine artists such as Spilimbergo, Victorica and Gómez Cornet, and traveled over Europe in order to improve his artistic techniques with Braque, Leger and Picasso, among others. In 1933, he was part of a team led by David Alfaro Siqueiros and Antonio Berni (among others) that painted a mural on the basement of Natalio Botana's farm (Botana was the owner of the Crítica newspaper of the time). In 1939, he traveled to Paris in order to study at the André Lothe's workshop, and he also took a course on fresco painting given by Boudin. He made some paradigmatic illustrations for the Martín Fierro book, written by José Hernández, which was edited by Eudeba in 1962. He also painted some murals, apart from the one made during Siqueiros’ visit; this is still displayed at Galerías Pacífico (painted in 1946 together with Spilimbergo, Berni, Urruchúa, and the Spanish artist Manuel Colmeiro) and another one titled "The New Land Offering" is still displayed at the Argentine Hebrew Society. The most important awards he received were the following – The Honorable Prize at the National Salon (1961), the Honorable Medal in Painting of the International Festival in Brussels (1958), and the Special Prize in Drawing at the II Biennial in Mexico (1962). In the Marine Art Museum of Ushuaia you can see "Flood in Puerto Ruiz" and "On the beach." He died in Buenos Aires on April 21st, 1972.
Cleto CIOCCHINI
He was born in San Vicente on April 23rd, 1899. He studied art in the cities of Buenos Aires and La Plata. In 1919, he traveled to Europe in order to improve his knowledge in the cities of Rome, Paris, and Madrid.
In 1920, he mounted an individual exhibit at the Lyceum in Florence, and in 1922 he had an exhibition organized at the Autumn Salon in Madrid. When he traveled back to Argentina, he mounted an exhibition at the National Salon in 1927, for which he was awarded a Stimulus Prize. He also won the First Painting Prize at the Municipal Salon of La Plata (1930), the Second National Prize (1943), and the Acquisition Prize in 1947, 1949, and 1950. He was also granted the Honorable Prize by the Department of Education in 1951.
He died in 1974.The city of Mar del Plata made a tribute to the artist, when baptizing with its name the Museum of the man of the port. The Marine Art Museum of Ushuaia, has very representative paintings of his work, "Fishermen", "Necochea", "Fishermen of Mar del Plata" and "Father Mutti".
Luís Adolfo CORDIVIOLA
He was born in Buenos Aires on July 1st, 1892. He performed his early studies at the National Fine Arts Academy, where he graduated as a Professor of Drawing in 1916.In 1912, he was granted a scholarship by the National Government, which took him to Europe. In Europe, he studied at the Colarossi and Grande Chaumièr Academies, and also with the painter Auquetín. When the war started in 1914, he returned to Argentina. In 1916, he won the National Salon Stimulus Prize. He settled down in Cavalango, province of Córdoba, where he created on most of his works. Since then, he lived partly in this town of Cavalango and partly in San Isidro, Buenos Aires, where he had an old house which he turned into an art museum. The Marine Art Museum of Ushuaia has in its collection a Coastal Landscape and the work "Sarandí".
He died in San Isidro, Buenos Aires, on June 20th, 1967.
Dino CUCCHIARELLI
He was born in Mendoza, on November 11th, 1935. He has lived in Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz Province, since 1975. He graduated as a surgeon from the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (National University of Córdoba) in 1974. In 1997, he began painting landscapes. He took lessons with Manuel Llamas (Cesáreo Bernaldo de Quirós´s impressionist disciple). He has made incursions into Art History, the theory of color, composition, etc. as a self taught artist. He has participated in collective exhibits at the SAAP Delegación Río Gallegos (SAAP Río Gallegos Local Branch), in the art museum Museo de Arte “Eduardo Minnicelli” of Río Gallegos, in the Maritime Museum of Ushuaia, and in different galleries of Río Gallegos. ARTECLÁSICA 2006 – Costa Salguero – Buenos Aires.
Individual exhibits: 1999 - Cultural Center Rincón del Arte (Art Corner).
2001 - FUNDACRUZ - Río Gallegos.
Salons: VII Salón Municipal de Pintura (VII Town Hall Painting Salon) at the national level, organized by the Río Gallegos Town Hall. 1999 - II Salón “Los Médicos y el Arte” (“Physicians and Art” II Salon), organized by COFESA at the national level. 2002 - 1º Salón Latinoamericano y del Caribe de Médicos Pintores (1st Latin American and Caribbean Salon of Physician-Painters), Palais de Glace, Buenos Aires. 2003 - 2º Salón Latinoamericano y del Caribe de Médicos Pintores (2nd Latin American and Caribbean Salon of Physician-Painters), Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires.
Awards: 1999 – Mention in the II Salón “Los Médicos y el Arte” (“Physicians and Art” II Salon), organized by COFESA at the national level, Buenos Aires.
Some of his works are owned by the Museo de Arte “Eduardo Minnicelli” of Río Gallegos, the Prison Museum of Ushuaia, and private collections in Río Gallegos, Buenos Aires, Tucumán, Córdoba, Chile, Washington D.C., and Italy. In the Marine Art Museum of Ushuaia his work "Swift" is exhibited.
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Jorge DÁNDOLO
He was born in Buenos Aires on December 19th, 1934. He studied at the Fine Arts Academy "Beato Angélico" and he took classes in several workshops, such as the Fine Arts Stimulus workshop. In the 1950s, he met the marinist Oscar Vaz, who became his teacher and introduced him into the marine theme. In 1965, he had his first exhibition organized by Alfredo Siniscalchi, director of the former argentine Buenos Aires Gallery.From then on, he has had several individual and collective exhibitions organized in galleries located in Buenos Aires and also in the provinces.Since 1968, he has regularly sent his works of art to different national, provincial and town council exhibits. He was awarded the 1st Prize of the Marinists Salon (1996), the 1st Prize of the Cabotage Masters Salon (1975), and several Mentions at the Naval Center and at the Popular Athenaeum of La Boca neighborhood, among other awards he received. In 1983, he traveled to Europe, where he picked up the streets and urban places as a theme. In the Marine Art Museum of Ushuaia you can see works of his authorship such as "Luminous Stream" and "Fragata Libertad en Ushuaia".
He died in Barracas neighborhood, Buenos Aires on September 27, 2009
Eugenio DANERI
He was born in Buenos Aires on July 25th, 1881. He studied at the Fine Arts Academy of the Stimulus Society. Thus, he was a disciple of the Argentine artists Sívori, Della Valle, and De la Cárcova. He worked as a professor of painting at the National Fine Arts School "Prilidiano Pueyrredón" and as a professor of drawing for the National Education Council. In 1920, he had an exhibition organized at the National Salon, and he also mounted individual exhibits in our country in Retiro, Moody and Kraft Halls. He took part in the international exhibitions of Paris (1937), Viña del Mar, San Francisco, and New York. He sent some of his works to the First Biennial Exhibition of Madrid in 1951 and to the XXVI Biennial Exhibition of Venice in 1952. His works were displayed in the collective exhibition called "The seven argentine artists of the Centennial," which was organized at the Provincial Plastic Arts Salon in Santa Fe (1946). He received a lot of awards, the most important being the following – Bronze Medal at the Centennial International Exhibition (1910), Second Town Council Prize (1939), National Salon First Prize (1941), First Prize at the Plastic Arts Autumn Town Council Salon (1945), and the Palanza Award (1948). The last time he was awarded was in 1965, when the National Honorable Senate granted him a gold medal due to his painting "La costurera" (The seamstress).In the Marine Art Museum of Ushuaia you can see a Port of his authorship. He died in Buenos Aires in June 1970.
Enrique DE LARRAÑAGA
Argentine painter born in San Andrés de Giles, province of Buenos Aires, the 19 of March of 1900. He studied in the National Academy of Fine Arts with Fernando Fader and Bernaldo de Quirós, whose track notices in his first works, when het painted landscapes of the mountain region of Cordoba. In 1924 he traveled to Europe taking root in Madrid and participating actively in the artistic life. He crossed Spain painting the land of segoviana and the fishing regions of Galicia. He returned to Buenos Aires in 1931, obtaining in 1934 the first prize in the National Salon. He was professor of drawing and painting in several establishments and director of the Superior School of Fine Arts. The Marine Art Museum of Ushuaia has in its collection the work "La Boca". He died in Buenos Aires the 29 of 1956 July.
Eduardo DE MARTINO
He was born in Meta, Sorrento, Italy, in 1838. He served in the Italian Navy until 1868. In 1866, he arrived in the River Plate. He left the Navy in order to become an artist, and he was a student of Juan Manuel Blanes.Some of his works represent the River Plate naval history. Besides, the Brazilian Navy asked him to represent the events of the war against Paraguay. He made an exhibition in Buenos Aires in 1889.
He served as a painter for the English Court during Queen Victoria and King Henry VII's reigns. During such time, he painted a series of works related to the Trafalgar battle.
He stood out like as a mariniste artist, and he also cultivated the technique of engraving.
Important works are part of the collection of the Marine Art Museum of Ushuaia, such as "Incendio del Vapor América" (1889), "Fragata en altamar" and "Boats". He died in Hampstead, England, in 1912..
Juan DEL PRETE
He was born in Vasto, province of Chieti, Italy, on October 5th, 1897. He settled in our country in 1909 and, in 1929, he became an Argentine citizen.Although he briefly studied at the Perugino Academy (Buenos Aires) and the Fine Arts Students Friendly Society, he can be considered a self-taught artist.In 1929, and through the Asociación Amigos del Arte (Friends of Art Association), he was granted a scholarship to travel to Paris. In Paris, he was involved in the avant-garde circles – he met Joaquín Torres García and Jean Arp, among others, and became part of the Abstraction Creation Art Non Figuratif group in 1932. He came back to Buenos Aires in 1933 and he mounted the first local non-figurative art exhibition.In 1957, he was invited to the IV International Biennial Exhibition in Brussels and also to the Palanza Award. Some of the most important retrospective exhibitions were the ones organized by the National Culture Department in Buenos Aires (1950), the Modern Art Museum in Buenos Aires (1961) and the Contemporary Art Museum in Santiago de Chile and Lima (1963). In 1958, he won the Palanza Award and also a special award at the International Exhibit in Brussels. In 1960, he won the Guggenheim Prize. He was always innovative, and in 1963 he was awarded the National Salon Honorable Prize. He traveled to Europe and lived in Genoa until 1967. In the Marine Art Museum of Ushuaia you can see the marina "Barcas al sol", (1945 "). He died in Buenos Aires on February 5th, 1987.
José María DOVAL
He was born in Santa Fe, in 1922. Part of the Traveling Museum of Marine Art, founded by Adela Tarraf. He participated in Open Study 2001, in the routes by studios of artists of La Boca district, organized by the Government of the City. He obtained in 2005, the prize to the trajectory, in the Anniversary Salon 30 years in the art, organized by the Braque Gallery, of Buenos Aires. Their works integrate the heap of the Museum of Angelical “Devout” Contemporary Art, of the Catholic University of La Plata, Buenos Aires. In the Marine Art Museum of Ushuaia the oil painting "In front of the shipyard- La Boca" is exhibited.
Vito DUMAS
“The greatest solitary seafarer of all times” was born in Buenos Aires on September 26th, 1900. A sea lover, he was involved in unique feats at his time. On December 13th, 1931, he set sail single-handed from Arcachón, France, bound for Buenos Aires — with no navigating instruments and carrying fresh water in demijohns.
On June 27th, 1942, he set sail on his first solitary circumnavigation of the world. Saying “Farewell Homeland,” he set sail from Buenos Aires to arrive back on August 7th, 1943. He sailed over 22,000 miles in four stages along the Roaring Forties route. His sailing ship, the Legh II, is 9.55 meters long and is sheltered in the National Naval Museum, in the city of Tigre, Province of Buenos Aires.
Later, in September 1945, he set sail from Buenos Aires for New York aboard the Legh II and, without calling at the latter city, he returned to Buenos Aires crossing the Atlantic twice and sailing 17,045 miles in 234 days.
In 1955, he joined Buenos Aires with New York aboard the Sirio I sailing 7,100 miles without calling at any port. He died in Buenos Aires on March 25th, 1965.
The work exhibited at theMarine Art Museum of Ushuaia, was made on board the Legh II in 1943. Presented by the author to Bryan Reynolds.
Alberto DURA
He was born in Uruguay, Montevideo, on August 14th, 1888. He studied drawing for five years at the Fine Arts Circle under the direction of Carlos María Herrera and Vicente Puig. Then, he went on as a self-taught painter. He worked as an art critic for "El Ideal" newspaper in Montevideo. Some of his works were displayed at the Fine Arts Exhibition of Rio de Janeiro (1918), the Latin American Exhibition of Seville (1930), the Centennial Exhibition (1931), the I Plastic Arts Biennial Exhibition (1953) and the exhibition of Uruguayan paintings that took place in Ecuador in 1955. He was awarded the National Salon Honorable Medal in 1937, 1939, and 1940. The work "Cranes and sheds" is part of the collection of the Marine Art Museum of Ushuaia. Died 1971 He died on 1971
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Juan Carlos FAGGIOLI
He was born in Buenos Aires on December 18th, 1910. He took a course of studies at the School of Higher Education in Fine Arts "Ernesto de la Cárcova", where he graduated as a Professor of Drawing and Painting in 1938. He worked as a teacher for the National Fine Arts Schools and for the National High School of Avellaneda. Music is the core of his artistic productions. A clear example is seen on his painting called Homenaje a Debussy (Tribute to Debussy), in which the brushstrokes' shade flow and rhythm clearly show something more than a tribute to Debussy. In 1943 it was granted a scholarship by the National Commission of Culture. He won the Rosario Salon First Painting Prize in 1936, the Jockey Club Prize in 1941, and the National Prize in 1950. In the Marine Art Museum of Ushuaia are his works "La Boca" and "Fiesta del pescador en Mar del Plata", 1956. He died in 1966.
Washington FEBLES CERIANI
He was born in the city of Tala, located in Canelones, Department of Uruguay, in 1947. In 1965, he entered El Molino workshop under the direction of painter Manuel Raúl Deliotti. Some of his most important exhibitions were the following – Edel Trade Center of Porto Alegre, Brazil (1996), Exhibition of Uruguayan painters at the Gallery of Graphic Arts, New York, U.S.A. (1999), and at the MVD Gallery, Buenos Aires, (2004). He took part in the following exhibits – XXV Plastic Arts Municipal Salon, Montevideo (1977), IV Salon of the Provinces, and XXX Plastic Arts Municipal Salon, Montevideo (1982), among others. He won the following awards – Acquisition Prize at the XXIX Plastic Arts Municipal Salon, Montevideo (1981), Acquisition Prize at the San José Plastic Arts Municipal Salon (1987), among others. The collection of the Marine Art Museum of Ushuaia, has two works from the Puerto de Montevideo Series. He currently lives and works in Uruguay.
Griselda FERREYRA
She was born in the province of La Pampa. Since 1972 he has exhibited in different samples and private, provincial, national and international salons, obtaining important awards, among them: First Prize Lagos '95; First Prize General Pico Hall; Argentina Ecology Foundation Acquisition Award; Pigue Hall First Prize; First Prize in the Perito Moreno Tribute Hall; Second Prize Cerealist Salon of Plastic Arts; Third Prize Argentine-Israeli Cultural Institute; Grand Prize of Honor Hall of Morón; First Prize Hall of Vicente López; First Prize in the San Fernando Autumn Salon; First Prize for Engraving, Santa Rosa, La Pampa; Grand Prize for Painting, Santa Rosa, La Pampa. The Marine Art Museum of Ushuaia has in its collection several of his works. He passed away in Buenos Aires on April 15, 2016.
Some individual and collective samples:
Invited to the 2006 Havana Biennial Galiano Gallery. What did you play when you were a kid? Participatory Installation. Hoy en el Arte Gallery, Buenos Aires; Sisley Gallery, Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires; Witcom Gallery, Buenos Aires; La Vuelta de los Tachos Gallery, Buenos Aires; Provincial Museum of Santa Rosa, La Pampa; BA Art Fair, Buenos Aires; EG. & Cody, Miami; Gallery of Art "La Acacia", Havana, Cuba; Provincial Center for the Development of the Visual Arts, Havana, Cuba; Cabildo Museum, Buenos Aires; University of Bogotá, Colombia; University of the Caribbean, Cartagena; invited to the 5th and 6th Biennial of Havana, Cuba; First and Second International Encounter of Engraving, Santa Rosa, La Pampa; Transbasto, Future Cultural City Iones, Buenos Aire; Fair Galleries Expotrastiendas, Buenos Aires; Gallery of Visual Arts "Emerjo Darío Lunar" Maracaibo, Venezuela. Art Gallery of the Maritime Museum of Ushuaia, March 2007, What did you play when you were a kid?, participatory installation.
Vicente FORTE
He was born in Lanús, Province of Buenos Aires, on April 4th, 1912. In 1953, he graduated from the Fine Arts School as a Professor of Drawing. He studied engraving techniques with Lino Eneas Spilimbergo and plastic composition with Emilio Pettoruti. Between 1949 and 1950, he made a study trip to Portugal, Spain, Italy, and France, and founded the Orion Group (with which he mounted an exhibition in 1939 and 1947) and the XX Painters and Sculptors Group (with which he mounted several exhibits between 1952 and 1957). In 1947, he started individual organized at several galleries, and. In 1963, he started another series of exhibitions as an artist exclusive for the Rubbers Gallery. In 1954 he was invited to the Havana Second Biennial Exhibition. In 1960, he in the First Modern Art Exhibition, organized by the Buenos Aires Modern Art Museum. In 1963, he took part in "Arte Argentino Actual" (Current Argentine Art), at the Paris Modern Art Museum. One year later, he was invited to the Venice Biennial Exhibition. Among other foreign exhibitions, he participated in the Modern Painting Exhibition in New Delhi and the Modern Art Exhibition mounted in Holland. In 1951, he won the First Prize of the Annual Watercolorists, Pastelists and Engravers Salon, and in 1962 he was awarded the National Salon Honorable Prize. In the Marine Art Museum of Ushuaia an oil painting "Sunday in the shipyard" is exhibited, made in 1974. He died in Buenos Aires in 1980.
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Fabián GALDAMEZ
Painter and sculptor. He was born in Mendoza on September 26, 1942. He studied at the Superior School of Plastic Arts of the National University of Cuyo and at the Provincial Academy of Arts of Mendoza and at the Superior School of Fine Arts "Ernesto de la Cárcova" of Buenos Aires. Among others were his teachers: Lorenzo Domínguez, Santiago Cogorno and Leopoldo Presas. Between 1979 and 1982 he settled in Paris. From 1965 to date he has made more than thirty individual exhibitions, his participation in group shows exceeds sixty and for his work he has been awarded fifteen times.
His works are part of private collections in Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Venezuela, the United States, Spain, France, Switzerland, Italy, Israel and Greece. In the Marine Art Museum of Ushuaia you can see his work "Puerto", from the Contraconcept series (2010)
Claudio GORROCHATEGUI
He was born in Río Gallegos, province of Santa Cruz, on November 6th, 1917. He was a self-taught artist. When he moved to Buenos Aires, he started organizing his individual exhibits at the Van Riel Gallery, and then at Witcomb, Velásquez and Peuser galleries and other several galleries located in the provinces. As from 1953, he regularly sent his works to the official exhibits of Rosario, Santa Fe, Bahía Blanca, Tandil, La Plata, Mar del Plata, and Buenos Aires. He traveled through South America, visiting Uruguay, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru. In Peru, he had an exhibition organized at the San Marcos Gallery of Lima (1962) and at the Peruvian-American Institute (1966), which got very good reviews and whose works were well-sold among collectors and official and private institutions. In 1947, he traveled to Spain and Italy. He was awarded the National Salon "Honorable Mention" Prize, the Tandil Salon Honorable Mention and another Mention at the Watercolorists Salon. His works "Boats in the Riachuelo" and "Moon Day" are exhibited at the Marine Art Museum of Ushuaia. He died in Buenos Aires in 1991.
Giorgio GRIFFA
He was born in Biella, Italy, in 1944. His "traveling watercolor works" were exhibited in different local and foreign galleries. In Argentina, he had exhibits organized at Palais de Glace and at the Zurbarán Gallery. In the Marine Art Museum of Ushuaia you can see the work he made during his stay in the city of Ushuaia "Faro Les Eclaireurs". He currently lives and works in Biella, Italy.
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Luís HOURGRAS
He was born in Alta Gracia, Córdoba province, in 1937. He attended the workshop of the Parisian Gabriel Simonnet Dubois, from an early age, where he learned sculpture, painting and ceramics and later specialized in impressionist landscapes. In 1959 he held his first exhibition, and since then he exhibits regularly in Buenos Aires, France, and Spain. In 1969 he received a scholarship to study at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, and exhibited in that city and in Madrid. Since 1975 he installed his Atelier in Punta del Este and alternated his stays between that city and Alta Gracia. He exhibited at the Art Gallery of the Maritime Museum of Ushuaia. His work "Veleros del sur" is exhibited in the Marine Art Museum of Ushuaia. He passed away on June 22, 2015
Francisco Guillermo HOYOS
Painter, sculptor, draftsman, and engraver. He was born in San Cristóbal, Santa Fe Province, on June, 6th, 1949. He graduated from the “Juan Mantovani” School. Being a scholarship holder of the province and of the Arcien Fundation, Hoyos paints heavy figures, realistic drawing and a symbolic whole that relates him to certain muralist movements of the continent. Although this artist from Santa Fe has not being very prolific in number of works and periods, his work is worth having a privileged place.
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Osvaldo IMPERIALE
He was born in Buenos Aires on June 1st, 1913. He was a self-taught artist. He made study trips to Italy, France, England, the United States, Colombia, and Brazil. From 1933, he exhibited at the National Salon and he also mounted individual exhibits in Buenos Aires since 1934. Besides, he had some exhibitions organized in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1936, and in the cities of Chicago and Los Angeles in 1940. His paintings show typical scenes of the Buenos Aires neighborhood La Boca. As regards the formal treatment of his works, his paintings are closely related to the works of Benito Quinquela Martín, although they do not show such a lot of characters. Two of his works, “Veleros” and “Día gris” (1976), can be seen in the Museum of Marine Art Ushuaia. He died in 1977.
Eduardo INDUNI
He was born in Buenos Aires on May 17th, 1901. He was a disciple of Fausto E. Coppini. He mounted an individual exhibit in 1946, presenting 16 works at the Pepe Rodríguez Gallery in the city of Rosario. He exhibited at the National Salon since 1922 and also at several provincial exhibitions, where he won important awards such as the Argentine Naval Association Prize, among others. He was devoted to the landscape theme, specially centered on the neighborhood of La Boca. Two oil paintings made in 1950 “El astillero” and “Puerto” are exhibited at the Marine Art Museum of Ushuaia. He died in 1958.
Hugo IRURETA
He was born in Buenos Aires and started his artistic career in 1949.
In 1964, he traveled around Spain, Italy and France with a scholarship from the Hispanic Culture Institute.
In 1971 and 1972, he took regular courses in History, Sociology, Philosophy and Art in the School of Philosophy and Literature, University of Buenos Aires.
He was a founding member of the following groups: “Buenos Aires,” “Grupo de los Nueve,” and “Ribera.” In 1976 and 1978, sent by the National Department of Education, he started to give lessons about the “Traveling Exhibit of the National Salon Awarded Works” at educational institutes located in the provinces of Salta, Santiago del Estero, Formosa, Chaco, Entre Ríos, and Corrientes. In 1977, invited by the Argentine Embassy, he displayed his works at the Argentine-Venezuelan Institute of Culture. In 1980, he founded the Museum of Plastic Arts of Animaná (Salta, Argentina), donating 20 works by Argentine artists which he owned to contribute to its development. In 1980, he donated 31 works by Argentine artists to the Museum of the Cultural House of La Paz (Entre Ríos, Argentina), five of them owned by the artist and one done by him. In 1981, he was appointed to be part of the board of directors of the Foundation “Carmen Rosa Ulivarri de Etchart,” an entity created to spread arts in the northwestern provinces of Argentina. On October 2nd, 1987, he created the Foundation “HUGO IRURETA” to promote art and culture in the Argentine northwest region, opening the Museum of Fine Arts in the City of Tilcara, Jujuy, Argentina, on January 30th, 1988. He donated some of his works to many Argentine museums, charitable organizations and to the Argentine House of Paris (France). Between 1950 and 1993, he took part in the Plastic Arts National Salon on a regular basis.Currently, he continues to develop his artistic activity in his workshops in La Boca neighborhood and in Tilcara and taking part in painting salons and in many exhibits in the provinces and the capital of Argentina. The Marine Art Museum of Ushuaia, has in its collection a marina, “Landscape with boats (1984) and a port,“ La Boca in the XIX century ”(1974).He passed away in Buenos Aires on April 22, 2015
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Stephen KOEK KOEK
He was born in London on October 15th, 1887. Belonging to an old dynasty of Dutch painters, he started his artistic career in 1901. In 1913, he traveled to Valparaíso and visited the south of Chile and Patagonia. In 1925, when the Prince of Wales was arriving in an official visit, he was hired to create a work of art to present the Prince with. Koek Koek traveled to Chivilcoy and there, surrounded by the Papas landscape, he created a magnificent canvas he named May Sun Sailboats, which surprised and captivated the future King Edward VIII. In 1926, he mounted an exhibit in Córdoba, and then he was admitted in Las Mercedes Hospice, where he lived a long time and started to experience a magic mystic insight, which he expressed in some of his paintings. He organized exhibits all over Argentina and beyond in Peru, Brazil, Chile, and Uruguay. In 1934, he traveled from Montevideo (Uruguay) to Chile in order to mount a series of expositions, but he was found dead in a hotel room in Santiago de Chile on December 20th that same year. Physicians reported he had suffered a heart failure. Nowadays, there is a foundation named after him in Buenos Aires, which is devoted to preserve and spread news about his works of art.
The Marine Art Museum of Ushuaia, exhibits in its rooms two oil paintings of his authorship.
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Eduardo LABOMBARDA
He was born in Buenos Aires on December 12th 1949. Between 1975 and 1980, he studied to become a Professor of Drawing and Painting. Then, he went on as a self-taught artist.He mounted individual exhibitions at the Vermeer Gallery in Buenos Aires (1995) and at the C.E.P. Foundation (1992).He had also some collective exhibitions organized, among which are the following – IV Small Format Salon, La Plata Provincial Fine Arts Museum (1985), Young Argentine Painting Prize awarded by Foundation Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat (1991), Argentina in Umbría La Nuova Scoperta Settimana della Cultura Argentina. Rocca Paolina, Perugia, Italia (1992). IV Painting Biennial Chandón, awarded by Chandón winery. National Culture Department. National Fine Arts Museum. Association "Friends of the Museum." 2001 Exhibition and auction at the Sívori Museum; 2nd Edition at the Sívori Museum. He won the First Painting Salon Prize in 1992, awarded by the C.E.P. Foundation, and the 1st Latin American Art Maimeri Prize (2002). In the Marine Art Museum of Ushuaia you can see his work "Garibaldi Snowdrift", made in 2002. He currently lives and works in Buenos Aires.
Fortunato LACÁMERA
He was born in Buenos Aires on October 5th, 1887. He started studying with Alfredo Lázzari at the Union Salon, where Quinquela Martín and Arturo Maresca also studied. A year later, he left Lázzari's workshop, therefore deciding he no longer needed a tutor. He continued studying independently. Since 1919, he exhibited at the National Salon, and also at provincial and town council salons, mounting individual exhibits from 1922 onwards (Zuretti Gallery, Friends of Art Association, Signo Salon, Buenos Aires town council exhibit salons, etc.). The most significant exhibit was the one he mounted at the Antú Gallery before passing away. He exhibited twenty oils, including marine themes and several still life works. He was part of the "Painters of La Boca neighborhood" group. He was one of the founders of the Association called Agrupación de Gente de Artes y Letras Impulso (Group Impulse of Artists and Writers), which he presided later on. He won the Fine Arts Stimulus Society Prize in 1929 and 1938, the Rosa Galisteo Rodríguez Prize at the Santa Fe Salon (1950), and the National Salon Eduardo Sívori Prize (1950), among others. His work "Lanchones" is part of the collection of the Marine Art Museum of Ushuaia. He died in Buenos Aires on February 26th, 1951.
Manuel LARRAVIDE
He was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, on October 22nd, 1871. He was a disciple of the famous marine painter Eduardo de Martino, who introduced him into marine topics. He moved to Buenos Aires in 1897 and graduated as a midshipman. He sailed the southern seas with the Argentine Navy and he also visited Madrid, Barcelona and Paris, taking notes that were later represented in some of his works. In 1896, he mounted an exhibition at the Witcomb Gallery and also had several subsequent exhibitions organized in Montevideo and Buenos Aires. He died in Montevideo on May 22nd, 1910. His works are present in the Buenos Aires Historic Museum. The Marine Art Museum of Ushuaia exhibits in its collection “Puerto de Buenos” from 1897, “Transatlantic in port” from 1901, “Puerto”, 1904 and “Entering a port”, 1908.
Alfredo LAZZARI
He was born in Diecimo, province of Lucca, Italy, on May 25th, 1871. He started his artistic studies at the Kingdom Academy in Diecimo, and then continued studying at the Florence and Rome academies. He also studied literature and classical languages. He traveled to Argentina in 1897, and settled down in La Boca neighborhood, where he worked as a teacher until 1903. Some of his most famous disciples are Benito Quinquela Martín and Fortunato Lacámera. Together with Faustino Brughetti, he introduced in our country the turn-of-the-century style of the Machiaioli – painting based on colour spots, loose brushstrokes, and the observation of motifs from life. He settled down in Lanús in 1904 and became an Argentine citizen in 1929. It was not until 1935 that he mounted his first individual exhibition at the Witcomb Gallery, and he exhibited his works at the national salons in 1938, 1942, and 1943. Also, he took part in the collective exhibition organized by the Impulse Association of La Boca in 1943 and, in 1948, he was invited as Honorable Guest to the exhibition organized by the La Boca Popular Athenaeum. In the Marine Art Museum of Ushuaia you can find his work "Amarradas" from 1941. He died in Buenos Aires on June 26th, 1949.
Myriam LODUCA
She was born in Montevideo, Uruguay. She started her painting and drawing studies with Masters Sergio and Aldo Curto, and then went on studying at Hugo Rossi's workshop. She studied decoration and painting on porcelain at the María Iris C. De Carenzi Gallessi's workshop. Her works have been exhibited in Uruguay, Paraguay, Argentina, and the United States, where she won prizes and special mentions. His work "Tugboats in port" made in 1982, is part of the collection of the Marine Art Museum of Ushuaia. She currently lives and works in Uruguay.
Alfredo LOPEZ RUIZ
He was born in Buenos Aires on December 1st, 1942. He started studying drawing and painting in 1980. Since 1984, he has taken part in the following exhibits – the 23rd Art Salon "Fermín Félix de Amador", the Small Format Salon in 1994, and the First Sketch Salon in 1996, organized by the Town Council of Olivos, among others. In 1993, he took part in the exhibit called 9 Artistas Plásticos en el Consejo Deliberante (9 Plastic Artists in the Deliberating Town Council). He also exhibited at the Marine Art Museum of the Hilton Hotel (located in Puerto Madero, Buenos Aires), at the José Hernández Museum, and at the Juan Martín de Pueyrredón Museum in San Isidro. He is a permanent exhibitor at the first itinerant painting exhibit organized by the Education and Culture Department of the Government of the City of Buenos Aires. He was awarded special mentions at the X Annual Painting Prize José A. Terry between 1993 and 2004. In 2004, he was awarded the Second Painting Prize by the ATNA Association (Friends of the Argentine Nautical Tradition). The Marine Art Museum of Ushuaia exhibits in its collection his work "After the storm" He lives and works in Buenos Aires.
Norberto LUPPI
He was born in Firmat, province of Santa Fe, in 1936. He got the first ideas about artistic composition from his maternal grandfather, a musician who was a member of the first orchestral band in Firmat. In 1962, he mounted his first individual exhibition at the Renon Gallery, in the city of Rosario. In 1969, he exhibited at the Argentine Gallery in Buenos Aires. He was invited by the Argentine Ambassador in Japan to take part in an exhibition mounted in Yokohama, and he also exhibited his works in Tokio and Manila. In 1975 and 1978, his works traveled around the world aboard the Libertad Frigate. He also mounted exhibitions in Italy, Spain, Tel Aviv (Israel), Valparaíso (Chile), Paraguay, Bolivia, Mexico, and Panama. He was recognized by the Chamber of Deputies of Santa Fe province, and among the prizes he received are the following – the Honorable Prize at the Painters Salon in 1995, a Mention to the painting of the Veneto area in Italy, and the Pollesami Prize in 2004. In the Marine Art Museum of Ushuaia his works are exhibited "Puerto de Ushuaia", 2003, "Armada ships", 2004, "Rest, La Boca", 2005, "Fisherman's task", 2005, "Ship Polar Bahía Paraíso ”, 2006. He currently lives and works in the province of Santa Fe.
Máximo Justo LYNCH
He was born in Martínez, province of Buenos Aires, on December 18th, 1870. He studied at the Fine Arts Stimulus Society with Della Valle, Giudice, Sívori, and De la Cárcova. Later on, he completed his studies with marinist painter Eduardo de Martino. In 1905, he traveled to Europe and lived in Madrid and Paris. He was one of the founders of the Nexus group, in La Boca neighborhood, and he was one of the first painters to depict the river motifs of this neighborhood. He also painted memorable events of the Argentine history with a rigorous realism. He exhibited his works at several individual exhibitions mounted in Buenos Aires, the first one taking place in 1904. He won the Stimulus Prize at the Athenaeum Exhibition in 1898, at the Centennial Exhibition in 1910 and at the National Salon in 1941. His work "Gray Morning" is part of the collection of the Marine Art Museum of Ushuaia. He died in Buenos Aires on January 14th, 1953.
Matilde LLAMBÍ CAMPBELL
She was born in Buenos Aires on June, 5th, 1982. Since 1997, she has attended drawing and live model workshops in the Stimulus of Fine Arts (Estímulo de Bellas Artes) and the Rojas Cultural Center (Centro Cultural Rojas). In the year 2002, she started to study Art in the University of Buenos Aires (Universidad de Buenos Aires). Between 2005 and 2006, she used to attend Carlos Cañás's workshop in the National Museum of Decorative Art (Museo Nacional de Arte Decorativo). In her oil paintings, she works exclusively with national industry materials and she approaches the topic of the sea exploring the possibilities of the thallus blue hue with her teacher's expressive and anti-academic way. Between 2005 and 2006, she participated in several collective exhibits and, in 2006, the present work was a part of the Azul National Salon (Salón Nacional de Azul), Buenos Aires Province.
Since 2003, she has worked for several national and international artistic institutions such as the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice and the Biennial of Contemporary Art in the same city. In 2004, she was an assistant to the curatorship of the National Museum of Fine Arts, Neuquén Branch, and later she collaborated in the first inventory of this collection.
The work "AB mar" is part of the collection of the Marine Art Museum of Ushuaia.
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Víctor MADUEÑO
Born in Buenos Aires in 1944, he was a self-taught painter and sculptor.He took part in several national, provincial, and municipal salons and he exhibited his works in different private galleries. He is co-founder of APVA (Painters of Villa Adelina) and he currently belongs to the executive committee of APSI (Artists of San Isidro). He takes part in the Area of Cultural Activities at the Perlotti Museum and at the Eduardo Sívori Arts Museum in Buenos Aires. He is often asked to take part in contests as a member of the jury. He has made several mural paintings for the city of Buenos Aires. He lives in San Isidro, where he works as a teacher and carries out analysis and criticism of works.
Roberto Héctor MAGNIN
He was born in Rafaela, province of Santa Fe, on May 6th, 1956. He moved to the nearby town of Ceres with his family, where he attended primary school and began his relationship with drawing by reproducing comic strips, like many other artists. Undoubtedly, comic strips played a central role in the life of 1960’s Argentine children. He studied Architecture in the Catholic University of Santa Fe.
He took classes with Álvaro Gatti and decided to intensify his artistic production. Magnin stands out because of being a prolific artist and having a varied work, although most of it is quite recent. He held many collective exhibits, including: UPCN Cultural Center, Santa Fe (2004); Branch of the Association of Plastic Artists, “Tribute to Puccinelli” (2005); Cultural University Forum (2006); Hall of the Legislative Palace during the exhibit "Dusk at the Museums" (2006). He took part in salons in the towns of Ceres and Avellaneda (both located in Santa Fe) in 2004. He has held individual exhibits in “La Casa del Sur” in the City of Santa Fe (2003), in “Los Espejos” Cultural Center (2005) and in the “Estrada Bello” Museum, in the City of Santo Tomé.
Jesús MARCOS
He was born in Salamanca, Spain, in 1938. He studied at the Bahia Blanca School of Fine Arts. In these years of study, he frequented several important masters of Argentine Painting, in addition to Castagnino, who became a workshop assistant during 1961 and 1962, Antonio Berni, who was an assistant in the realization of murals, Enrique Policastro, Carlos Giambiagi, and especially Miguel Diomede and Juan del Prete. In 1966 he settled in Mexico where he resides for a year. He studies anthropology at the Museo Antropológico de México and engraving at the Escuela de Bellas Artes de San Carlos, México D.F. During 1967 he resides in New York. In 1968 he settled in Paris where he lived until 1973 when he returned to Buenos Aires. He has served on numerous occasions as a jury for prizes and competitions, both provincial and national. He has given numerous lectures on art and culture. From 1977 to 1980 he directed the Praxis Gallery. In 1984 he directed the Department of Visual Arts at the Vernie Cultural Center. In 1990 he was appointed advisor to the Recoleta Cultural Center. In 1995, together with Jorge Abot and Monice Glenz, he designed and directed the production and assembly of Arte al Sur, C.C. Recoleta. In 1998 he selected and curated the exhibition of outstanding students from the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes at the C.C. Recoleta. As of 1997 he directs the Cultural Department of the Salamanca Center, all of them in Buenos Aires. In 2006 he organized the Salamanca Cultural Week in Buenos Aires and since then he has directed the Department of Culture of the Salamanca Cultural Institute in Buenos Aires. In 2007 he organized the week of the Culture of Buenos Aires in Salamanca. Between 1962 and 1966 he directed the J.C. Castagnino and from 1973 -year back to Argentina- he directed his own private workshop. In 1979 he set up the Praxis Gallery's screen printing workshop and trained a group of plastics who were in charge of the production of said workshop. In the 1980s, he gave support courses in Fine Arts Schools in different provinces, sent by the National Secretary of Culture. In 1988 he set up a screen printing workshop and trained a group of plastics in this discipline in the city of Salta. In the 90s he gave different seminars at the "Prilidiano Pueyrredon" School of Fine Arts. Starting in 1996, he was a professor at the "E. de la Carcova ”In 1999, the year of its creation, he was appointed professor at the IUNA. (National University Institute of Art) and Director of Thesis of said institution. He has obtained more than 20 prizes in salons and national competitions, among them: First Prize for drawing Bahía Blanca Room / MC Victorica Prize, M. Belgrano Room / Salvador Caputo Acquisition Prize, Santa Fe Room / Secretary of Culture of the Nation Prize , Santa Fe Hall / 2nd. Rosario Hall acquisition award / H. Butler acquisition award (National Endowment for the Arts) Santa Fe Hall / Unique Monotype Award, M. Belgrano Hall / 3rd. Buenos Aires National Hall Engraving Award. He passed away in Buenos Aires, on October 21, 2018
Horacio MARCH
He was born in Quilmes, Buenos Aires, on September 24th, 1899. He studied drawing in the National Fine Arts Academy and then he continued his training independently. He worked as a painter, set designer, illustrator and, later in time, as a professor in the School of Fine Arts in the City of Buenos Aires. He was also worked in theater and film productions as a set designer. In 1926, he took part in the National Salon.March made frequent trips around the north of Argentina. He also visited Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru. In 1949, he settled down in Lima, where he organized a drawing and painting workshop and where he also worked as a teacher. He started to exhibit individually in his country and abroad in 1932. He was awarded the National Salon Stimulus Prize in 1943 and the Acquisition Landscape Prize in the Buenos Aires Fine Arts Salon the following year. He received the First Prize and the Gold Medal in the Spring Salon of the Society of Fine Arts in Lima, Peru. In 1957, he took part in the Sao Paulo Biennial Exhibition.He died in Quilmes on August 19th, 1978, little after being awarded the Palanza Award. His works are part of collections in various museums in Peru and other Latin American countries. In our country, his works are part of the collections of the National Museum of Fine Arts, the National Fund for the Arts, the Municipal Museum “Eduardo Sívori”, the Municipal Museum of La Plata, the Municipal Museum of Mar del Plata, as well as numerous private collections.
Francisco MARIANI
He was born in Buenos Aires on April 10th, 1887. He studied in the Fine Arts Stimulus Association between 1900 and 1905. In 1906, he joined the National Fine Arts Academy and graduated in 1911. He traveled to Europe in 1951.He lived and worked in La Boca neighborhood, portraying typical harbor scenes, and he used to paint outdoors. He took part in the National Salon in 1945 and he took part in several provincial exhibitions. He died in Buenos Aires in 1970. Works of his authorship are part of the patrimonial collections of the Municipal Museum of Plastic Arts Eduardo Sívori and the Provincial Museum of Fine Arts of Buenos Aires
Luis MASTRO
Born in 1923, he was a disciple of Emilio Centurión and Marcos Tiglio.In 1956, he was awarded the Acquisition Prize in the Castagnino Museum in Rosario, and in 1958, he received the Acquisition Prize, State Department of Communications, as well as the Cecilia Grierson Prize, National Salon. He died on September 13th, 2006.
Emaus MICIU NICOLAEVICI
He was born in Granada, Spain, in November 1978. He is the son of Georg Miciu Nicolaevici. He shares Georg's quick vision of dense materiality and thematic register and also his humanist conception of the world and of art. More impulsive and sketched, poetic coincides in singing to nature, to man and - as the Miciu Nicolaevici have taught us for more than half a century - in affirming the values of family identity through the craft of art and love of life. lifetime. He participated in group shows from the age of 14. In 1995 he exhibited in Córdoba and San Martín de los Andes. Later in Neuquén and Buenos Aires. In 1998 he at the National Museum of Decorative Art in a joint exhibition of the three Miciu generations. In 2000 he Valmont Art Gallery Bs. As. And participated exhibiting in the city of Steamboat USA at the Tread of Pioneers Museum. In 2002, he demonstrated painting at the National Meeting of Artists and prepares his trip for a tour of Europe in his search for the roots that influenced the culture of his parents. He lives and works in San Martín de los Andes, Neuquén province.
Abel MONASTEROLO
He was born in San Cristóbal, Santa Fe Province, on April 20, 1958. Higher Prof. of Visual Arts specialized in Painting from the "Juan Mantovani" School of Visual Arts. Course on "Morphology of the nude" with Maestro César López Claro. Course "Space in Sculpture" with Master Enio Iommi. Course "Color in the Plane" with Ahuva Silmovich. Curator of the Municipal Museum of Visual Arts of Santa Fe. Teacher of the Municipal Lyceum and the "El Molino" Workshop in the city of Esperanza. Teacher of the Painting workshop of the "J. Mantovani" Visual Arts School. He was a jury of Municipal, Provincial and National halls. Founding member of the group "Arteseis" of the city of Santa Fe. Fellow of the Province of Santa Fe, in Federal Capital. He has exhibited in different cities of the country, in the Pérez Quesada Contemporary Art Gallery, in the Borges Cultural Center, as well as in Uruguay, Chile and France. He obtained various awards in Provincial and National Salons.
Heriberto MONTOYA ORTÍZ
He was born in Lota, Chile, on March 12th, 1963. The Chilean painter, Sergio Vargas, was the one who introduced him to the world of painting.He formed the Lautaro Group, which organized painting classes outdoors. This group held its first exhibition in the “Casa del Corregidor” Museum in Santiago, Chile. He then exhibited his works individually in the Toulouse Gallery in Santiago, Chile, and in the Praxis Gallery in Mendoza, Argentina. He took part in the following exhibitions – Small Format Salon (SAAP), Buenos Aires, Argentina (1989); La Boca Popular Atheneum, Buenos Aires (1993); El Socorro Gallery, Buenos Aires; Festival of Arts in Brussels, Belgium; Art Miami, United States of America; Índigo Art Gallery, Buenos Aires; Miguel Fuks Art Gallery, Buenos Aires; among others. In late 1980, he settled down in Guernica, a town located to the south of the province of Buenos Aires.
Alberto MORALES
He was born on November 21, 1952, in the City of Buenos Aires. His teachers were: Carlos Terribilli, Jorge Abot, Demetrio Urruchúa, Gabriel Messil, Bernardo Di Vruno, Néstor Berlles, Ana Eckell, Diana Aisemberg and Ennio Iommi. He made individual exhibitions in galleries and museums in southern Argentina, in Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Uruguay. He participated in innumerable group shows and for his work received awards and outstanding mentions. In 2005, after 100 years of Argentine presence in Antarctica, the National Antarctic Directorate invited you to participate in the Argentine Antarctic Cultural Project "within the" Multidisciplinary Program of Antarctic Dissemination and Culture "in the Summer Campaign, traveling 40 days painting across the white continent between January 30 and March 9. They own his works: National University of Lanús, Museum of Marine Art of Ushuaia, Secretary of the Antarctic Treaty, Luciano Benetton Collection, Government of CABA, Fernando Bonfiglioli Museum
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Eduardo NICOLAI
He was born in General San Martín, La Pampa, on November 10th, 1957. He attended Mercedes Couseiro’s workshop in Punta Alta as well as the workshop given by the Uruguayan illustrator, Hermenegildo Sabat. In 1980, he moved to Ushuaia as part of the civilian personnel of the Navy, and he worked as an illustrator for several publications. He has organized several exhibitions in the cities of Ushuaia, Neuquén, Trelew, Río Grande, and Buenos Aires. He lives and works in Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, where he has been working as a teacher since 1994.
Adolfo NIGRO
He was born in the city of Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina, on September 22th, 1942. He graduate from the National School of Fine Arts Manuel Belgrano in 1960, and continued his studies in the Superior School of Fine Arts Prilidiano Pueyrredón, until 1962. He studied painting with D. Chalukian and V. Magariños, between 1958 and 62. In 1966 he moved to Montevideo, tying with members of the Torres García Workshop and studied with Jose Gurvich. He lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Between the diverse prizes that received, we can mention: Second Prize LXXVII National Salon of Plastic Arts, Bs.As. First Prize XXIV National Salon Engraving and Drawing, Bs.As. (1988); Great prize of Honor LXXVIII National Salonl Plastic Arts, Bs.As. First mention, Second Chandón Biennial Museum of Modern Art, Bs.As. (1989) and Trabucco Prize, National Academy of Fine Arts, National Museum of Beautiful Arts, Bs.As (1994), among others. He made numerous solo and collective exhibitions: Art Miami, Miami, U.S.A. and Gallery Inhabitant, Panama (1994); Torres museum Garci'a, Montevideo, Uruguay (1995); Gallery Van Eyck, Bs.As and Cultural Centro Park of Spain, Rosario, Argentina (1995); Borges Cultural Center Bs. As. (2000).
He died on May 14, 2018, in the city of Buenos Aires.
Cesar Augusto NOVELLETTO
He was born in 1944 in the city of Buenos Aires. He was a disciple of the Catalan teacher Pedro Roca y Marsal. When he was very young, he frequented the painters' environment of the La Boca neighborhood, establishing a personal relationship with the teachers Benito Quinquela Martín, Eugenio Daneri and Oscar Vaz, among others. He made countless group and solo exhibitions, receiving critical praise from the public, in Buenos Aires, Hamburg, and Rome. His works are in private collections in Italy, Spain, France, Germany, Japan, South Africa, Brazil, Chile and the USA. He was awarded several times at the Annual Marinists' Hall of the Naval Center of Buenos Aires, including the Grand Prize of Honor in 1971. Of that painting hall, he was a jury, on two occasions. César Novelletto addresses in his paintings the traditional genres of landscape, still life and seascapes where he updates the Boquense tradition that the passage of time has not managed to erase, adding today his own and current look. His boats from the port of La Boca are more significant in his magical and mythical world of one of the most representative places of Buenos Aires of yesterday and forever.
Micaela NÚÑEZ
She was born in Uruguay, on 27th February, 1963. She studied design, painting and restoration, and soon one took root during some time in Europe, crossing the main harbor cities, taking notes and making diverse pictorial studies. She obtained different distinctions and made exhibitions of the most famous nautical competitions in different countries. Also she has made a study on the lighthouses of the world that allow us to know them in documentary sense, and that also reflects the poetry and the magic of the subject. She lives and works in Punta del Este, Uruguay.
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Famuceno Bonifacio OROQUIETA
He was born in Buenos Aires in 1887. He studied at the National School of Higher Education in Fine Arts "Ernesto de la Cárcova" between 1929 and 1932. In 1926, he left for the United States to study there. He showed his works in individual exhibits at Zuretti Gallery in 1928 and 1933.
Juan OTERO
He was born in Buenos Aires in 1920. A self-taught artist, he worked on topics relating the feminine figure, flowers, and landscapes influenced by the argentine painter Raúl Soldi.
He died in Buenos Aires in 1973.
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Onofrio PACENZA
Born in Buenos Aires on May 6th 1904, he studied architecture and decoration and entered the Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes (National Fine Arts Academy), where he graduated as a professor of drawing in 1928. There, he acted as a full professor in the Drawing and Composition, and Painting subjects. He made a studying trip to Europe. He was a member of the Pintores Modernos (Modern Painters) group, which was firstly sponsored by Asociación Amigos del Arte (1930‑1940) and later by Amigos del Libro (1946-52). In 1960, he was invited to participate in the Exposición del Sesquicentenario (150th Exhibition).
He took part in several foreign exhibitions, the most important of which are the following: Mostra di Pittura Argentina, Rome, Milan, Venice, and Genoa (1937); International Exhibition, New York, Los Angeles, Richmond, and California (1941); UNESCO International Exhibit, Paris (1946); Argentine Painting Exhibit in Israel (1952); San Pablo VI Biennial Exhibition (1961). In 1965, the National Fine Arts Academy invited him to participate in the Palanza Award and, in 1968, in the Tres Arroyos Award.
He received important awards, among which are the following: First Prize and Gold Medal in the National Salon (1960); First Prize and Gold Medal in the Argentine Navy Salon (1962); Honorable Prize awarded by the Department of Education and Gold Medal in the National Salon (1963). His works are present in local and foreign museums and also in private collections: National Fine Arts Museum; Eduardo Sívori Arts Museum; Los Angeles and Richmond Latin American Museum, United States; Quirinal Art Gallery, Rome; Venezuelan National Museum and private collections in Telaviv and Chile.
He died in Buenos Aires, on June 27th 1971.
Pablo PEREYRA
He was born in the city of Buenos Aires on August 29th, 1959. He attended the workshops of the artists Elio Yamier and Ruth Morillo.
The main themes in his works are the sea and the vessels, the landscapes and the human form. Since 1982, he has taken part in several salons, such as: Tigre Town Council Salon; Annual Art Salon Fernán Félix Amador; Marinists Salon at the Buenos Aires Naval Center (in which he participated on several occasions and received two Mentions); First and Third Provincial Salon of Drawing and Painting in Delta (where he received a third prize and a first prize, respectively). As regards collective exhibitions, he took part in some in the Province of Buenos Aires House, the Reconquista Museum and the Recoleta Cultural Center, in Buenos Aires. As regards individual exhibitions, he held exhibitions at the Buscchiazzo hall in Manzana de las Luces, Buenos Aires; at the Pueyrredón Museum in San Isidro; at the Marcelo T. de Alvear Foundation, etc.
His paintings are exhibited at the National Naval Museum, the Libres del Sur Museum in Dolores, at Manzana de las Luces, at the End of the World Museum (Museo del Fin del Mundo), the Olivos Yacht Club, the Reconquista Museum, the Argentino Yacht Club, the Moneta House Museum, the Icebreaker “Almirante Irízar,” etc.
Some of Pereyra’s paintings are kept in private collections in Argentina and abroad.
He graduated in Museology in 1986; he is currently working in some institutions in Buenos Aires.
Gabriela PERTOVT
Born in Santa Fe, Argentina, in 1962. In 1990, she is given a grant by the Canadian Foundation “Elizabeth Greenshields.” In 1996, she is awarded a trip to Paris and a distinction as young artist by “Pro-Arte Foundation” (Córdoba).
She has earned more than forty awards (acquisition prizes, etc.) in contests and exhibition halls in the most important museums and cultural centers in Argentina.
She has exhibited in France and Switzerland. Her works are now part of private collections in the U.S, Spain, Australia, Switzerland, Germany, France, England, Scotland, and Italy.
Her paintings are part of the heritage of 14 museums and foundations in Argentina..
Cesar PUGLIESE
He was born in Buenos Aires in 1902. Self-taught. He dedicated himself to port and marine issues. He was called by his colleagues as "the Painter of Puente Alsina". He participated in the National Hall on several occasions from 1925 to 1954; in the salons of Rosario in 1929 and 1950, of Bahía Blanca, of La Plata, of Paraná among others, he carried out individual exhibitions at Galería Witcomb in Rosario in 1929 and at the Witcomb gallery in Buenos Aires, at the Club de Mar del Plata and in Río Ceballos, Córdoba. He received the First Prize of the National Commission of Culture in the National Hall of 1947. He died in Buenos Aires in 1979.
Enrique POLICASTRO
He was born in Buenos Aires on January 5th 1898. In 1915, he started studying with the well-known architect and painter Alejandro Cristophersen, and later on with the Spanish master Julio Vila y Prades. Then, he continued his training as a self-taught artist.
He participated in the Argentine exhibit "50 Years of Painting and Sculpture"; he was invited two times to the Palanza Award and to international contests in Baltimore, Rome, Torino, Milan, and Venice. He was awarded the following prizes: National Salon Stimulus Prize (1926); Stimulus Prize and Second Municipal Prize (1929); First Prize of the National Arts Association, Watercolorists Salon (1930); Francisco Llobet Prize, Watercolorists Salon (1932). Cecilio Grierson Prize, National Salon (1933 and 1940). First Prize of the National Arts Association (1935-1940). Rosario Salon Gold Medal (1941). Buenos Aires Jockey Club Prize (1941). Rosario Salon First Prize (1947). Santa Fe Salon First Prize (1949). Argentine Landscape First Prize, Hebrew Society (1950). He died in Buenos Aires in 1971.
Leopoldo PRESAS
He was born in Buenos Aires, on February 21st 1915. In 1938, he graduated from the National Fine Arts Academy and from the Graphic Arts Argentine Institute. He finished his studies with Lino Enea Spilimbergo. Since 1939, he organized his first exhibitions as he became a member of the surrealist group "Orión", which he founded together with Barragán, Forte, Ideal Sánchez, Pierri and Venier, among others. He mounted some famous exhibitions in the Modern Arts Museum, which allowed him to travel to Europe in order to improve his art skills by visiting France, Spain, England, and Belgium. In 1965, he had an exhibition organized in the United States and was invited to the Venice Biennial.
In 1959, he received the Honorable Prize at the National Salon. Four years later, he received the Palanza Award. Around 1967, he devoted himself to painting harbor landscapes and he made a retrospective exhibition with 108 works in the former Gallery of Modern Art, Huntington Hartford Collection, New York.
In that same year, he was elected president of the Argentine Society of Plastic Artists. Between 1979 and 1987, he settled in Paris and in 1994 he had a retrospective exhibition organized in the Salas Nacionales de Cultura, Palais de Glace, by the Zurbarán Gallery of Buenos Aires. He died in Buenos Aires on June 12, 2009
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Benito QUINQUELA MARTÍN
Born in Buenos Aires on March 1st 1890, he was abandoned by his parents when he was born and adopted by the Chinchella family. He started his artistic studies in Pezzini Sttiatessi Conservatory and attended the classes given by Alfredo Lazzari. In 1914, he took part in the Primer Salón de Recusados (First Salon of Rejected Artists), and he held his first individual exhibition at the Witcomb Gallery in 1918. Between 1935 and 1936, he made pottery and took his first steps in mural painting. He then used both techniques to decorate and inaugurate Pedro de Mendoza School Museum in La Boca. He founded and ran the Fine Arts Museum in La Boca in 1938. Quinquela Martín made several donations and gave out lots to set up different educational and cultural institutions in La Boca neighborhood. In 1939, he devoted himself to the making of etchings portraying pain, joy and work at the harbor in their different aspects. He exhibited on a number of occasions in – Argentina, Rio de Janeiro, Madrid, Paris, New York, Havana, Rome, and London. In 1920, he was awarded the Second National Salon Prize. In 1972, he was declared Honorary Member of the University Senate by the University of Buenos Aires. In 1974, the National Arts Fund paid tribute to him and a retrospective exhibition of his works was held in Salas Nacionales de Exposición, Palais de Glace. He died in Buenos Aires on January 28th, 1977.
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Armando REPETTO
He was born in Buenos Aires in 1893. He studied at the Fine Arts Academy of the Stimulus Society for three months in 1903 and later took a course in higher studies and graduated as civil engineer in 1917. In 1940, he presented his first individual exhibit in Buenos Aires. Three years later, he presented his works at the Müller Gallery in the same city, from then on, he presented periodical exhibits with good reviews and success among visitors. In 1967, he organized his last exhibition at the Katerotxipi Gallery in Mar del Plata. He died in Buenos Aires on April 2nd, 1968.
Oton RINGER
He was born in Vienna, the capital of Austria, on April 8th, 1906. He arrived in Argentina in 1930 and became an Argentine citizen. Ringer painted for many years in the neighborhood of La Boca – he depicted the Vuelta de Rocha and other views, all of them neighborhood motifs. His marine paintings are worth mentioning as he is one of the best interpreters of the Riachuelo together with Quinquela Martin, Cúnsolo, Lacámera, and Imperiale, among.
Died on June 12, 1991
Armando RONCHETTI
He was born in Buenos Aires on July 3rd, 1901. A self-taught artist. He was immersed in the stimulant ambience of the La Boca painters. He produced a large number of marine works where he depicts mainly the old port of Buenos Aires. In 1961, he exhibited 45 oils at the Argentine Gallery of Buenos Aires, this being his first and only experience exhibiting works in an official institution related with the market. Later, he would rather exhibit and sell his works at the traditional Caminito fair in La Boca, in direct contact with buyers. He died in Buenos Aires on March 21st, 1989.
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Eduardo SÍVORI
He was born in Buenos Aires, on October 13th, 1847. In 1874, he traveled to Europe and visited museums, workshops and academies which helped him find his vocation. He lived in Paris until 1876. Back in his country, he founded the Fine Arts Stimulus Society. In 1882, he returned to Europe and started attending Jean Paul Laurens’s workshop until 1888. He was one of the artists who belonged to the movement known as “The Generation of the 80’s” along with Schiaffino, Della Valle, de la Cárcova, and Giudici. They excelled because of their activity as organizers, educators, polemicists and mainly because of the quality of their artistic production.
Sívori was known as the “painter of the Pampas,” because he tried to capture the spirit of the plains in his work, contrary to what he learned in Europe. He is remembered as one of the first artists who introduced the engraving technique. He died on June 5th, 1918.
Raúl SOLDI
He was born in Buenos Aires on March 27th, 1905. In 1924, he traveled to Italy and started his studies in the Academy of Brera (Milan). He lived in Italy for eight years, being part of avant-garde groups, displaying his work, and receiving awards. In 1932, he returned to Argentina and was granted a scholarship by the National Cultural Committee. In 1933, he won the Collection First Prize in the 19th Watercolorists Salon of Buenos Aires and a Silver Medal in the International Exhibition of San Francisco. He started working as a set designer for national movies and continued doing so for fifteen years. In 1936, he received the Gold Medal in the Salon of Rosario, Santa Fe. In 1937, he was awarded a prize in the International Exhibition of Paris and in the 24th Watercolorists Salon of Buenos Aires. In 1939, he took part in international exhibitions in New York and San Francisco.
He performed a great number of murals, including the one in Santa Ana Church, located in Glew, province of Buenos Aires. It took him twenty-three summers to complete this mural. On May 25th, 1966, the new dome of the Colón Theater was unveiled. It was redecorated by Soldi, who donated the work to the city of Buenos Aires. He traveled to Israel in 1968 to paint a fresco in the Basilica of the Annunciation, located in Nazareth. It took Soldi sixty days to complete this work. In 1989, he did the mosaic “Camerata Bariloche,” located in the Park of Portofino Museum, Italy.
In 1981, he displayed the sixty works he donated to the Santa Ana Foundation of Glew in the National Fine Arts Museum.
Soldi died in the city of Buenos Aires on April 21st, 1994.
Jorge SOTO ACEVAL
He was born in Buenos Aires on June 28th, 1891. Once he finished high school, he studied architecture for two years with Alejandro Christophersen.
In 1912, he arrived in Europe with the idea of completing his studies on architecture and decoration, and attended Georges Renon’s atelier in Paris. When the war broke out, he moved to Italy and then to Spain, where he painted landscapes.
He exhibited his watercolors in Seville and returned to Argentina in 1914. A year later, he exhibited at the Del Retiro Salon and, between 1917 and 1918, at the National Salon.
He decorated murals, Allegory to Almirante Brown’s Glories, at the Mariano Moreno High School of Adrogué.
In 1915, he was one of the founders of the Watercolorists, Pastelists and Engravers Society.
He was a professor at the National School of Higher Education in Fine Arts, a member of the National Academy of Fine Arts and its president as of 1963.
He won the first prize at the National Salon in 1936. He died in 1974.
He is represented at the National Museum of Fine Arts, at provincial museums, and at the Museum of Modern Art in Madrid.
Lino Enea SPILIMBERGO
He was born in Buenos Aires, on August 12, 1896. In 1915 he entered the National Academy of Fine Arts “Prilidiano Pueyrredón”. There he has as professors Pío Collivadino, Ernesto de la Cárcova and Carlos Pablo Ripamonte, and as colleagues Héctor Basaldúa, Aquiles Badi, Horacio Butler and Alfredo Bigatti, Raquel Forner, Gigli. He graduated in 1917 with the title of National Professor of Drawing.
In 1921 he in the province of San Juan, where he made the first individual exhibition of him.
In 1922 he obtained the First Prize for Engraving at the National Salon.
In 1925 he sent the Old Puyutana, El ciego, and Andean Landscape to the National Salon, with which he obtained the Unique Prize for Best Ensemble. The National Commission of Fine Arts acquires El ciego. He travels to Europe to perfect himself. In Paris he takes classes with André Lhote and together with Butler, Badi, Basaldúa, Bigatti and Berni, Morera, Forner, Pissarro and Domínguez Neira make up the so-called “Paris group”.
In 1926 he participated in the First University Hall of La Plata to exhibit Argentine art in different European cities, such as Paris, Madrid, Rome and Venice.
In 1927 he obtained the First Prize for Painting Acquisition at the Santa Fe Annual Salon.
In 1928 he returned to Argentina with his French wife Germaine, inspiring the portraits of his big eyes. He settles in Las Lomitas, San Juan province, whose landscapes are reflected in structured paintings such as the Landscape (of San Juan) with which he obtained the First Acquisition Prize at the XI Salón de Rosario in 1929. Today it is part of the collection of the Municipal Museum de Bellas Artes, today Juan B. Castagnino.
In 1932 he participated in the Exhibition of Argentine Engravers in New York. Plastics He participates with Juan Carlos Castagnino, Antonio Berni and the Uruguayan Lázaro in the mural, Plastic Exercise, which David Alfaro Siqueiros makes in the fifth Los Granados. He is awarded the First Prize for Painting at the National Salon.
Between 1934 and 1939 he worked as a Professor of Painting at the Argentine Institute of Graphic Arts and between 1935 and 1948 as a Professor of Drawing and Painting at the National School of Fine Arts "Prilidiano Pueyrredón" in Buenos Aires.
In 1935 he began the series of monocopies of the Brief history of Emma, a crude graphic narration of the marginal history of a prostitute. In 1937 he illustrated with a series of etchings Interlunio, by Oliverio Girondo and obtained the Grand Prize for Painting at the National Salon and a gold medal in the Engraving category at the International Exhibition in Paris.
In 1939 he traveled through Bolivia –a journey that he repeated the following year to teach at the Academy of Fine Arts in Potosí–, exhibited individually at the "Rosa Galisteo de Rodríguez" Museum in Santa Fe and together with Berni he made one of the decorative panels of the Argentine Pavilion at the New York International Exposition.
In 1943 he was appointed temporarily to the head of the Chair of Drawing at the School of Fine Arts of the National University of La Plata, a position he held until August 1944. He obtained the First Prize at the Buenos Aires Municipal Hall (1943) with Young Wounded , which then entered the Municipal Museum of Fine Arts, today the Eduardo Sívori Museum.
In 1944 he founded, together with Juan Carlos Castagnino, Antonio Berni, Demetrio Urruchúa and Manuel Colmeiro, the Mural Art Workshop. This workshop is in charge of decorating the dome of the Galerías Pacífico, a work that culminated in 1946.
In 1956 he was appointed a member of the National Academy of Fine Arts.
He died in Unquillo on March 16, 1964.
Spilimbergo's early works respond to a naturalistic language with which the artist represents desolate landscapes and humble characters from the interior of the country. During his European period in Paris, he joined André Lhote's studio and, under his influence, tried to reconcile the tradition of Renaissance painting with the spirit of modern art. In this way, the searches for him are oriented towards the so-called “return to order” of the artists of the School of Paris. In the same sense, the gravitation of the Italian Novecento can be perceived in his work.
From the iconographic point of view, Spilimbergo deals with the human figure, the portrait, the still life, the landscape, and scenes of social criticism or symbolic allegory. In general, his painting is governed by the concept of formal clarity and geometric structuring of forms and space, which frequently reaches a high degree of deprivation. At times, as in the Las Terrazas series, he assumes a haunting realism with an almost dreamlike tone, in the manner of Italian metaphysical painting.
Within the technique of engraving, the artist achieves a remarkable mastery in the practice of monocopying with which he performs series of expressive intensity and stark critical observation, such as the one dedicated to the Brief History of Emma.
Ricardo SUPISICHE
He was born in Santa Fe in 1912 and lost his left arm due to an accident, in which he fell off a tram, in 1923. He began his studies in drawing and painting at the J.M. Reinares, in his hometown. He is a disciple of the engraving painter Sergio Sergi. He travels to Italy, where he has contact with metaphysical painters. The riverside theme-human and landscape-constitutes the issue that stands out the most in his works. He is dedicated to painting the coasts of the Paraná, and its lonely and silent inhabitant. At first he is realistic, but later he is characterized by the synthesis of his painting and the use of soft colors that denote delicacy. He was a drawing teacher at the Municipal School of Fine Arts; advertising drawing teacher at the Leandro N. Alem professional night school and painting teacher at the School of Fine Arts in the province. He has traveled the entire Argentine coastline on study trips and visited Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil and some European countries.He has won various awards, including First Prize at the National Salon, in Paraná and Tucumán, First Prize at the IKA Salon in Córdoba, etc. He resided in Santa Fe, where he belonged to the Setubal Group of which he was a founding member and died in that city in 1992.
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Adela TARRAF
She was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1923. Writer, sculptor, critic, literature professor, she founded the Itinerant Museum of Marine Art of Buenos Aires and the Port of San Julián Museum, in the province of Santa Cruz. She was director of the Corrientes Museum of Fine Arts. She mounted several individual exhibits in important galleries of Buenos Aires, such as Witcomb, Van Riel, El Nauta, Armisticio, Atica, and Marienbad; and in the towns of Entre Ríos, Corrientes, and San isidro. She took part in official and private salons getting several awards – the Buenos Aires National Salon; in Rosario, in the Almirante Brown Salon. She is a regular lecturer and member of the jury in various art contests. As a writer, she has published books – poetry, and philosophy and aesthetics essays. She passed away in Buenos Aires on March 27, 2013.
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Carlos URIARTE
He was born in Rosario, province of Santa Fe, on January 9th, 1910. He started to study art at the Gaspary Academy in Rosario and later graduated from the Institute of Fine Arts of the Litoral University where he later worked as a teacher. In 1930, he started to show his works in national and provincial salons. He was one of the Argentinean artists selected to send his works to the Venice Biennial in 1964. Following the stream of color and matter sensuality, he was an outstanding colorist. His still lives have become true excellent archetypes. He died in 1995.
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Oscar Antonio VAZ
He was born in Buenos Aires on October 10th, 1909. He started to study art as a disciple of the marinist Eduardo de Martino and continued his studies with Justo Lynch. He organized his first individual exhibit in 1946 at the Müller Gallery of Buenos Aires and, in 1943, he started to take part in salons and collective exhibits. He was in Europe between 1959 and 1960 and showed his works in exhibits in France and Spain. He died in Buenos Aires in 1987.
Horacio VODOVOTZ
Born in 1942, he studied painting and drawing with Manuel Eichelbaum and Demetrio Urruchúa. He graduated in 1967 obtaining his degree in Architecture at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. As an Architect he projected and built apartment complexes, commercial stores, offices, industries, and stands. He lives and work in Buenos Aires
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Jacques WITJENS
He was born in The Hague on April 8th, 1881. In 1918, he took part in a collective exhibit in his home city.He arrived in Argentina in 1920, and during his first years in this country his works showed nostalgia for Dutch landscapes he created out of his memories. Later, he started to paint new topics and included brooks from the Delta and patios, porticos and allies of the old Buenos Aires. He won the Single Painting Prize of the XXXVII National Salon of Plastic Arts, and the Single Prize for foreign artists awarded by the National Salon, among other prizes. He died in Buenos Aires on December 7th, 1956.
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Salvador ZAINO
He was born in Popoli (a cittadina antica in the Abruzzo Mountains, in front of the Adriatic Sea) in 1858. When he was 30, he set sail for America and settled down in Rosario. Zaino belonged to the period in which artists moved from mythological images and white female nudes to the relaxing painting of fresh landscapes on an easel at the countryside. From the Neoclassical muses to the Impressionist light.
It was also the time of stringent academies. His biography states he traveled to Genoa, in the north of Italy, in 1868, at the age of ten, to study at the Belli Arti Linguistic Academy. Seven years later, and after having obtained his diploma, he moved to Rome and then to Naples to work in Antonio Mancini, Teófilo Patini and Francisco Michetti’s workshops. There, he learnt mural decoration techniques, which were in fashion at the time. In 1895, after giving some courses on artistic drawing at the Industrial Club in Rosario, he founded the first Fine Arts Stimulus Academy in the same town. When the new century was about to start, he took up the post of full professor of the drawing department in the prestigious National Teachers’ Training College in Rosario. In the meantime, while moving away from teaching to find his own expression, he painted the whole geography of his home town – the river, the slope, the growing town, and the hamlet on the outskirts. His testimony can be found in oil paintings “of thick and vigorous brushstrokes,” according to what he learnt from his teachers, who belonged to the Macchiaioli movement, and in paintings of outstanding light, where the European’s enthusiasm about the vast plains and the powerful rivers can be noted. Salvador Zaino died on May 17th, 1942, in his house located in Alberti, on the magnificent slopes of the Paraná river.