Rafael Squirru

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Rafael Squirru (born March 23, 1925 in Buenos Aires ; † March 5, 2016 ibid) was an Argentine poet, speaker, art critic and essayist .

Life

Squirru was born in Buenos Aires in 1925 and grew up there. He attended Saint Andrew's Scot School and the El Salvador Secondary School of the Jesuits . He graduated from Edinburgh University in 1948 .

After founding the Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires in 1956, he entered the government of Arturo Frondizi as director of cultural affairs for Argentine and Latin American art. Through his efforts during this time, sculptures by Alicia Penalba and etchings by Antonie Berni were sent to São Paulo and the Biennale di Venezia , respectively, with both artists receiving first prizes.

As director of culture for the Organization of American States (OAS), headquartered in Washington, DC , he continued his job of promoting North and Latin American culture in 1963 until his resignation in 1970. During this time he supported the construction of the tomb for US President John F. Kennedy by the Uruguayan artist Lincoln Presno in Quemú Quemú; his inaugural address as the official representative of the OAS, given during the military rule of General Juan Carlos Onganía , earned him a temporary declaration on persona non grata .

Back in Buenos Aires, he supported culture in all its forms through readings in his own country and abroad, forewords to art exhibitions and regular publications in the Argentine daily La Nación , with which he worked for more than twenty years.

Awards

  • Honorary Doctorate in Humanities, University of Neuquén, Argentina
  • Honorary Doctorate in Humanities, University of Morón, Argentina
  • Konex Platinum Prize for Fine Arts, Konex Foundation, Buenos Aires
  • Gratia Artis Prize of the Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes, Argentina
  • Honorary member of The Association of The Corcoran Gallery
  • Advisory member of CARI (Consejo Argentino Relaciones Internacionales) in Buenos Aires
  • Honorary member of the Miguel Lillo Foundation, San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina

Fonts

Art criticism

  • Barragán , Buenos Aires, Galería Rubbers, 1960.
  • Leopoldo Presas , Buenos Aires, El Mangrullo, 1972.
  • Pérez Celis , Buenos Aires, Ediciones del Hombre Nuevo, 1973.
  • Albino Fernández , Buenos Aires, La Barca Gráfica, 1975.
  • Antonio Berni , Buenos Aires, Dead Weight, 1975.
  • Guillermo Roux , Buenos Aires, Dead Weight, 1975.
  • Pintura, pintura, siete valores argentinos en el arte actual , Buenos Aires, Ediciones Arte y Crítica, 1975.
  • Luis Seoane , Buenos Aires, Dead Weight, 1978.
  • Liberti , Buenos Aires, Dead Weight, 1978.
  • Arte de América: 25 años de crítica , Buenos Aires, Gaglianone, 1979.
  • Héctor Giuffré , Buenos Aires, Gaglianone, 1980.
  • Batuz (con D. Ronte, RA Kuchta e C. Heigl), New York, Rizzoli International Publications, 1981.
  • Buenos Aires y sus esculturas , Buenos Aires, Manrique Zago, 1981.
  • Eduardo Mac Entyre , Buenos Aires, Gaglianone, 1981.
  • Aldo Severi , Buenos Aires, Dead Weight, 1982.
  • Arte argentino hoy. Una selección de 48 artistas , Buenos Aires, Gaglianone, 1983.
  • Juan Del Prete , Buenos Aires, Gaglianone, 1984.
  • Mariano Pagés : 1945-1983 , Buenos Aires, 1984.
  • Four Contemporary Painters from Argentina: Horacio Bustos, Pérez Celis, Kenneth Kemble, Juan Carlos Liberti , University of Florida, 1986.
  • Miguel Ocampo , Buenos Aires, Gaglianone, 1986.
  • Kenneth Kemble , Buenos Aires, Gaglianone, 1987.
  • Elena Tarasido: la opción de la libertad , Buenos Aires, Instituto Salesiano de Artes Gráficas, 1988.
  • Inés Bancalari 1976-1987 , Buenos Aires, Gaglianone, 1988.
  • Cuarenta maestros del arte de los Argentinos (with I. Gutiérrez Zaldivar), Buenos Aires, Zurbarán, 1990.
  • Gyula Kosice: obras Madi , Buenos Aires, Gaglianone, 1990.
  • Quinquela: popular y clásico , Buenos Aires, 1990.
  • Juan M. Sánchez , Buenos Aires, Ennio Ayosa, 1991.
  • Mara Marini , Iglesias Kuppenhein, 1992.
  • Carpani cabalga al tigre (con M. Vincent), Madrid, Ollero y Ramos, 1994.
  • Roma donors. Imágenes urbanas , Buenos Aires, Arte al Día, 1997.
  • Leopoldo Torres Agüero , Fragments Editions, 1999.
  • Perez Celis (with Frederick Ted Castle and Peter Frank), Shapolsky, 1999

Art criticism in verse

  • 49 artistas de América: itinerario poético , Buenos Aires, Gaglianone, 1984.

poetry

  • La noche iluminada , Buenos Aires, Ediciones del Hombre Nuevo, 1957.
  • Amor 33 , Buenos Aires, Ediciones del Hombre Nuevo, 1958.
  • Números, Buenos Aires, Ediciones del Hombre Nuevo, 1960.
  • Awareness of Love (poetical comment on the work of Juan Downey), Washington DC, HK Press, 1966.
  • Poesía 1957-1966 , Buenos Aires, Dead Weight, 1966.
  • Poesía 1966-1970 , Buenos Aires, Juárez, 1970.
  • Poesía 1970-1971. La edad del cerdo y otros poemas , Buenos Aires, Dead Weight, 1971.
  • Poesía 1971-1973. Quincunce americano , Buenos Aires, Dead Weight, 1973.
  • Poesía 1973-1975. Cuaderno de bitácora , Buenos Aires, Dead Weight, 1975.
  • Poesía 1975-1977. La Corona , Buenos Aires, Dead Weight, 1977.
  • Números. Veinte años de poesía (1957-1977) , Buenos Aires, La Barca Gráfica, 1977.
  • Chrysopeya del buen amor , Buenos Aires, Albino y Asociados, 1986.

Essays

  • Filosofía del arte abstracto , Buenos Aires, Museo de Arte Moderno, 1961.
  • Leopoldo Marechal , Buenos Aires, Ediciones Culturales Argentinas, 1961.
  • The Challenge of the New Man. A cultural approach to the Latin American scene , Washington DC, Pan American Union, 1964.
  • Towards a World Community , Chicago, Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1968.
  • Martin Fierro (with other authors), Buenos Aires, Instituto Salesiano de Artes Gráficas, 1972.
  • Claves del arte actual , Buenos Aires, Troquel, 1976.
  • Ángeles y Monstruos. Ensayos Breves , Buenos Aires, Gaglianone, 1986.
  • Hacia la pintura: como apreciarla , Buenos Aires, Editorial Atlántida, 1988
  • Exigencias del arte , Buenos Aires, Zurbarán, 1989.
  • El artista y su tiempo , Buenos Aires, Rozenblum, 1991.
  • Arte y humanismo , Buenos Aires, Fundación Praxis, 1993.
  • Libros y libros, cuadros y cuadros , Morón, Universidad de Morón, 1995.

Translations

  • William Shakespeare , Hamlet , Buenos Aires, Dead Weight, 1976.
  • William Shakespeare, La tempestad , Buenos Aires, Biblioteca Nacional, 1979.

Dramas

  • El Rey Salomón (drama bíblico en tres actos) , Buenos Aires, Marchand Editorial, 1980.

literature

  • Augusto Rodríguez Larreta: El Arte y Rafael Squirru . Ediciones del Hombre Nuevo, Buenos Aires 1951
  • Marta Campomar: Rafael Squirru - ojo crítico y palabra creadora . Ediciones de arte Gaglianone, Buenos Aires 1997.
  • Eloisa Squirru: Tan Rafael Squirru! , Ediciones El Elefante Blanco, Buenos Aires 2008.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Murió el poeta y crítico de arte Rafael Squirru
personal data
SURNAME Squirru, Rafael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine poet, public speaker, art critic and essayist
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Buenos Aires
DATE OF DEATH 5th March 2016
Place of death Buenos Aires