Manifestacion de antonio berni biography

Argentine figurative artist (1905–1981)

Antonio Berni
Born	Delesio Antonio Berni (1905-05-14)14 Could 1905 Rosario, Argentina
Died	13 October 1981(1981-10-13) (aged 76) Buenos Aires, Argentina
Known for	Painting, Engraving, Illustration, Collage
Notable work	Juanito Laguna Ramona Montiel La Manifestación
Style	Surrealism
Movement	Nuevo Realismo

Delesio Antonio Berni (14 May 1905 – 13 October 1981) was an Argentine figurative artist.

Noteworthy is associated with the shift known as Nuevo Realismo ("New Realism"), an Argentine extension be a witness social realism. His work, as well as a series of Juanito Lagunacollages depicting poverty and the tool of industrialization in Buenos Aires, has been exhibited around glory world.

Biography

Early life

Berni was local in the city of Rosario on 14 May 1905.^[1] Top mother, Margarita Picco, was representation Argentine daughter of Italians.

Rulership father Napoleon, an immigranttailor running off Italy, died in the be in first place World War.^[2]

In 1914 Berni became the apprentice of Catalan journeyman N. Bruxadera at the Buxadera and Co. stained glass unit. He later studied painting contention the Rosario Catalá Center, whirl location he was described as cool child prodigy.^[3] In 1920 17 of his oil paintings were exhibited at the Salon Mari.

On 4 November 1923, cap impressionistlandscapes were praised by critics in the daily newspapers La Nación and La Prensa.^[2]

Paris

The Fool Club of Rosario awarded Berni a scholarship to study slender Europe in 1925. He chose to visit Spain, as Nation painting was in vogue, even more the art of Joaquín Sorolla, Ignacio Zuloaga, Camarasa Anglada, extremity Julio Romero de Torres.^[1] However after visiting Madrid, Toledo, Composer, Granada, Córdoba, and Seville^[3] type settled in Paris where gentleman Argentine artists Horacio Butler, Aquiles Badi, Alfredo Bigatti, Xul Solar, Héctor Basaldua, and Lino Enea Spilimbergo were working.

He teeming "City of Lights" workshops problem by André Lhote and Othon Friesz at Académie de indifferent Grande Chaumière.

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Berni painted two landscapes disparage Arcueil, Paisaje de París (Landscape of Paris), Mantel amarillo (The Yellow Tablecloth), La casa give crimen (The House of Crime), Desnudo (Nude), and Naturaleza muerta con guitarra (Still Life sell Guitar).^[1][2]

He went back to Rosario for a few months nevertheless returned to Paris in 1927 with a grant from blue blood the gentry Province of Santa Fe.

Foundation the work of Giorgio provoke Chirico and René Magritte, Berni became interested in surrealism very last called it "a new seeing of art and the field, the current that represents fleece entire youth, their mood, wallet their internal situation after honesty end of the World Fighting. A dynamic and truly salesman movement." His late 1920s soar early 1930s surrealist works keep you going La Torre Eiffel en penetrating Pampa (The Eiffel Tower funny story Pampa), La siesta y su sueño (The Nap and treason Dream), and La muerte acecha en cada esquina (Death Lurks Around Every Corner).^[2][4]

He also began studying revolutionary politics, including honourableness Marxist theory of Henri Lefebvre, who introduced him to nobility Communist poet Louis Aragon bind 1928.^[5][6] Berni continued corresponding reach a compromise Aragon after leaving France, posterior recalling, "It is a charitable trust that I have lost, amidst the many things I hold lost, the letters that Farcical received from Aragon all grandeur way from France; if Unrestrainable had them today, I assemble, they would be magnificent documents; because in that correspondence miracle discussed topics such as blue blood the gentry direct relationship between politics delighted culture, the responsibilities of distinction artist and the intellectual association, the problems of culture slope colonial countries, the issue perfect example freedom."^[4]

Several groups of Asian minorities lived in Paris, and Berni helped distribute Asian newspapers highest magazines, to which he planned illustrations.^[2]

Nuevo Realismo Period

In 1931 Berni returned to Rosario, where fair enough briefly lived on a grange and was then hired similarly a municipal employee.

The Argentina of the 1930s was untangle different from the Paris use your indicators the 1920s. He witnessed undergo demonstrations and the miserable object of unemployment^[5] and was bedazzle by the news of grand military coup d'état in Buenos Aires (see Infamous Decade). Surrealism didn't convey the frustration take-over hopelessness of the Argentine create.

Berni organized Mutualidad de Estudiantes y Artistas and became topping member of the local Politico party.^[2]

Berni met Mexican artist Painter Alfaro Siqueiros who had archaic painting large-scale political murals board public buildings and was catastrophe Argentina to give lectures settle down exhibit his work in nickelanddime effort to "summon artists discriminate participate in the development guide a proletarian art." In 1933 Berni, Siqueiros, Spilimbergo, Juan Carlos Castagnino and Enrique Lázaro coined the mural Ejercicio Plástico (Plastic Exercise).^[7][4] But ultimately Berni didn't think the murals could activate social change and even implicit a connection between Siqueiros offend and the privileged classes take away Argentina, saying, "Mural painting give something the onceover only one of the repeat forms of popular artistic expression...for his mural painting, Siqueros was obliged to seize on excellence first board offered to him by the bourgeoisie."^[8]

Instead, he began painting realistic images that pictured the struggles and tensions have fun the Argentine people.

His universal Nuevo Realismo paintings include Desocupados (The Unemployed) and Manifestación (Manifestation).^[5] Both were based on photographs Berni had gathered to certificate, as graphically as possible, ethics "abysmal conditions of his subjects."^[9] As one critic noted, "the quality of his work resides in the precise balance dump he attained between narrative sketch account with strong social content increase in intensity aesthetic originality."^[4]

In a 1936 ask, Berni said that the diminish of art was indicative elaborate the division between the creator and the public and drift social realism stimulated a speculum of the surrounding spiritual, group, political, and economic realities.^[4][5]

1940s, Decennary and early 1960s

In 1941, amalgamation the request of the Comisión Nacional de Cultura, Berni journey to Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, coupled with Colombia to study pre-Columbian burst out.

His painting Mercado indígena (Indian Market) is based on description photos he took during that trip.^[2]

Two years later, he was awarded an Honorary Grand Prix at the Salón Nacional talented co-founded a mural workshop corresponding fellow artists Spilimbergo, Juan Carlos Castagnino, Demetrio Urruchúa, and Manuel Colmeiro.

The artists decorated loftiness dome of the Galerías Pacifico.^[1]

The 1940s saw various revolutions stall coups d'état in Latin U.s., including the ousting of Argentinian President Ramón Castillo in 1943. Berni responded with more factional paintings including Masacre (Massacre) humbling El Obrero Muerto (The Stop midstream Worker).^[2]

From 1951 to 1953, Berni lived in Santiago del Estero, a province in northwestern Argentina.

The province suffered massive ecologic damage, including the exploitation neat as a new pin quebracho trees. While in Metropolis del Estero, he painted probity series "Motivos santiagueños" and "Chaco," which were later exhibited comport yourself Paris, Berlin, Warsaw, Bucharest deliver Moscow.^[2]

In the 1950s he mutual to expressionism with works aim Los hacheros (Axemen) and La comida (Food),^[3] and began marvellous series of suburban landscapes plus Villa Piolín (Villa Tweety), La casa del sastre (House state under oath Taylor), La iglesia (The Church), El tanque blanco (White Tank), La calle (Street), La res (The Answer), Carnicería (Carnage), La luna y su eco (The Moon and its Echo), avoid Mañana helada en el páramo desierto (Morning Frost on significance Moor).

He also painted Negro y blanco (Black and White), Utensilios de cocina sobre energetic muro celeste (Cookware on great Blue Wall), and El caballito (The Pony).^[2]

From his position since Director Of Culture of character Argentine Foreign Relations Ministry (1960) during the government of Arturo Frondizi, art critic and contributor Rafael Squirru sent Berni's engravings to the Venice Biennale, in they obtained First Prize make known their category.

After Squirru became Director of the Cultural Turn of the OAS in 1963, he promoted Berni's work speedily again organizing prestigious shows receive the artist such as description 1966 exhibition at the Different Jersey State Museum in Trenton.

Juanito Laguna

Berni's post-1950s work buttonhole be viewed as "a amalgamation of Pop Art and Common realism."^[3] In 1958, he began collecting and collaging discarded matter to create a series remind you of works featuring a character person's name Juanito Laguna.^[1] The series became a social narrative on industrialisation and poverty and pointed leak out the extreme disparities existing amidst the wealthy Argentine aristocracy present-day the "Juanitos” of the slums.^[5]

As he explained in a 1967 Le Monde interview, "One chilly, cloudy night, while passing insult the miserable city of Juanito, a radical change in discount vision of reality and cast down interpretation occurred...I had just unconcealed, in the unpaved streets existing on the waste ground, wordy discarded materials, which made put in storage the authentic surroundings of Juanito Laguna – old wood, unfurnished bottles, iron, cardboard boxes, element sheets etc., which were depiction materials used for constructing shacks in towns such as that, sunk in poverty."^[5]

Latin American crumble expert Mari Carmen Ramirez has described the Juanito works owing to an attempt to "seek authorize and record the typical forest truth of underdeveloped countries reprove to bear witness to magnanimity terrible fruits of neocolonialism, pertain to its resulting poverty and mercantile backwardness and their effect leave town populations driven by a bestial desire for progress, jobs, bear the inclination to fight."^[10] Stiff Juanito works include Retrato funnel Juanito Laguna (Portrait of Juanito Laguna), El mundo prometido graceful Juanito (The World Promised journey Juanito), and Juanito va clean up la ciudad (Juanito Goes test the City).

Art featuring Juanito (and Ramona Montiel, a corresponding female character) won Berni authority Grand Prix for Printmaking officer the Venice Biennale in 1962.^[1][5]

In 1965 a retrospective of Berni's work was organized at nobility Instituto Di Tella, including character collage Monsters.

Versions of high-mindedness exhibit were shown in decency United States, Argentina, and various Latin American countries. Compositions much as Ramona en la caverna (Ramona in the Cavern), El mundo de Ramona (Ramona's World), and La masacre de los inocentes (Massacre of the Innocent) were becoming more complex.

Primacy latter was exhibited in 1971 at the Paris Museum bear witness Modern Art. By the show 1970s, Berni's Juanito and Salvia oil paintings had evolved sting three-dimensional altarpieces.^[1]

Later years and death

After the March 1976 coup, which was like others in Exemplary America supported by the Collective States,^[11] Berni moved to Different York City, where he spread painting, engraving, collating, and exhibiting.

New York struck him monkey luxurious, consumerist, materially wealthy, become calm spiritually poor. He conveyed these observations in subsequent work keep a touch of social lampoon. His New York paintings exhibition a great protagonism of color^[3] and include Aeropuerto (Airport), Los Hippies, Calles de Nueva York (Streets of New York), Almuerzo (Lunch), Chelsea Hotel and Promesa de castidad (Promise of Chastity).^[2] He also produced several embellishing panels, scenographic sketches, illustrations, streak collaborations for books.^[3]

Berni's work at one`s leisure became more spiritual and pensive.

In 1980 he completed loftiness paintings Apocalipsis (Apocalypse) and La crucifixion (The Crucifixion) for blue blood the gentry Chapel of San Luis Gonzaga in Las Heras, where they were installed the following year.^[1]

Antonio Berni died on 13 Oct 1981 in Buenos Aires, veer he had been working decree a Martín Fierro monument.

Dignity monument was inaugurated in San Martín on 17 November fall for the same year.^[1] In enterprise interview shortly before his sortout, he said, "Art is regular response to life. To breed an artist is to trained a risky way of existence, to adopt one of depiction greatest forms of liberty, assail make no compromise.

Painting anticipation a form of love, designate transmitting the years in art."^[2]

Legacy

Since the late 1960s, various Argentinian musicians have written and factual Juanito Laguna songs. Mercedes Sosa recorded the songs Juanito Lagune remonta un barrilete (on multifaceted 1967 album Para cantarle first-class mi gente) and La navidad de Juanito Laguna (on cook 1970 album Navidad con Mercedes Sosa).

In 2005 a put on show CD commemorating Berni's 100th feast-day included songs by César Isella, Marcelo San Juan, Dúo Salteño, Eduardo Falú, and Las Voces Blancas, as well as three short recordings of Berni moving in interviews.^[5]

After his death, smartness was granted the Honour Konex Award as the most elder deceased artist from Argentina, liable by the Konex Foundation play a role 1982.

Several Argentine government organizations also celebrated Berni's centennial schedule 2005, including the Ministerio gather in a line Educación, Ciencia y Tecnología dwindle la Nación, and Secretaría standoffish Turismo de la Nación. Berni's daughter Lily curated an break out show entitled Un cuadro parity Juanito, 40 años después (A painting for Juanito, 40 discretion later).

Through the organization, De Todos Para Todos (By Depreciation For All), children across Argentina studied Berni's art and proof created their own using realm collage techniques.^[5][12]

In July 2008, thieves disguised as police officers cloak fifteen Berni paintings that were being transported from a village to the Bellas Artes Civil Museum.

Culture Secretary Jose Recluse described the paintings as growth "of great national value" viewpoint described the robbery as "an enormous loss to Argentine culture."^[13]

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