Leon Ferrari

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León Ferrari (born September 3, 1920 in Buenos Aires ; † July 25, 2013 there ) was an Argentine artist who worked in the field of conceptual art , collage , painting and sculpture .

Life

Ferrari was born in 1920 to an Italian immigrant family in Buenos Aires and grew up there. At the age of 34 he began to occupy himself with ceramic art. Soon he was also working with other materials, including wood and plaster. In 1961 he made his first abstract drawing: Ininteligible , which became part of a series that continues to this day.

León Ferrari became known for works that combine elements of collage, copying and sculpture (wood, plaster and ceramics). The artist often used text, mostly newspaper clippings or poems. The themes of his art can be found in the intersection of politics and religion. His best-known work of art, La civilización occidental y cristiana ("The Occidental, Christian Civilization") shows a wooden figure of Christ crucified, with an American bomber forming the cross. The work was created in 1965 in connection with the protest against the Vietnam War and was shown at the Biennale di Venezia in 2007 together with recent drawings and collages.

Ferrari died at the age of 92 in his native city of Buenos Aires and found his final resting place in the La Recoleta cemetery .

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1955: Cairola Gallery, Milan (ceramics).
  • 1960: Esculturas . Galatea, Buenos Aires.
  • 1978: Pinacoteca do Estado, São Paulo .
  • 1980: A Arte de León Ferrari . Museo de Arte Moderno, São Paulo.
  • 1982: Planos, heliografías y fotocopias . Museo Carrillo Gil (DF), Mexico.
  • 1983: Casa de las Américas, La Habana.
  • 1987: Heretic Chapel . Franklin Furnace, New York .
  • 2004: Retrospectiva León Ferrari . Centro Cultural Recoleta, Argentina.
  • 2006: Retrospectiva León Ferrari . Pinacoteca do Estado, Sao Paulo.
  • 2006: Revisiting Tautology . PanAmerican Art Projects, Miami .

Participation in group exhibitions (selection)

  • 1955: Triennale, Milan .
  • 1963: Latin American Art , Museum of Modern Art, Paris.
  • 1963: Writing and image , Stedelijk Museum , Amsterdam and Kunsthalle Baden-Baden .
  • 1964: Buenos Aires 64 . MoMA , New York.
  • 1981: International Mail Art Exhibition, Palazzo Bruno, Ispica, Italy.
  • 1984: 1st Havana Biennial. Havana
  • 1996: Las Abuelas y los Artistas . Centro Recoleta, Buenos Aires.
  • 1999: Global Conceptualism: Point of Origin, 1950s-1980s . Queens Museum of Art, Queens , New York City.
  • 2003: Bienal do Mercosul , Porto Alegre .
  • 2004: Ex Argentina . Museum Ludwig , Cologne.
  • 2007: 52nd Venice International Art Biennale
  • 2007: documenta 12 , Kassel.
  • 2010: Realidad y Utopía. Argentina's artistic path to the present , Akademie der Künste , Berlin.

Awards

  • 1995: Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1997: Medal of the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo organization , Buenos Aires, which Ferrari had supported through works of art and participation in public events.
  • 2007: Premio Cultura Nacion , the national art award of Argentina
  • 2007: Golden Lion for the best artist in the central group exhibition of the 52nd Venice Art Biennale

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Argentine artist León Ferraris dies . In: Buenos Aires Herald of July 25, 2013.
  2. ↑ Realidad y Utopía. Argentina's artistic path to the present on the website of the Akademie der Künste, Berlin. Retrieved January 25, 2011.
  3. ^ John Simon Guggenheim Foundation - León Ferrari. In: gf.org. Retrieved February 12, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo: 20th Anniversary in 1997 - Press and Media . Online under Archived Copy ( Memento of the original from April 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.abuelas.org.ar
  5. ^ Premios Cultura Nación - Mercedes Sosa y León Ferrari, entre otros . In Comunicación y prensa of the Argentine Minister of Culture (Secretaría de Cultura, Presidencia de la Nación), from September 25, 2007, online under Archived Copy ( Memento of the original from September 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and still Not checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cultura.gov.ar
  6. ↑ Golden Lions - Venice Biennale . In: art - Das Kunstmagazin, October 17, 2007, online under Archived Copy ( Memento of the original from November 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.art-magazin.de
personal data
SURNAME Ferrari, León
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine conceptual artist and painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Buenos Aires , Argentina
DATE OF DEATH July 25, 2013
Place of death Buenos Aires , Argentina