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Antonio
Berni
by
Adriana Lauria and Enrique Llambías
May 2005
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As a commemoration of the birth of Antonio Berni (1905-1981) we offer a broad panorama of his life and his production. Through a thematic study, a chronology and several reproductions and documentary images, we travel across the work of this remarkable creator, one of the most outstanding artists in Argentina and Latin America.
 
Introduction | Subjects | Chronology | Works | Exhibitions | Selected bibliography
Critical Realism: Violence and Society
 
El obrero muerto or El velatorio, 1949
Bombardeo, 1953
Los emigrantes, 1956
Berni’s artistic program always included a critical discourse about the political and social reality in his time, even when it might adopt forms and ways of materialization that connected it with the metaphysical art or with atmospheres close to the fantastic or the surreal: after all, many realities of man were not a product of unwilling nightmares, but the result of intentional conceptions in wakefulness. Unfairness, inequalities, harassment and cuts on liberties adopted different modes and aspects through historical times and Berni found in every moment a sharp and wise way to expose them. His works, which many times acquired the shape of irony, sarcasm or pity, were always clear about the way he condemned these facts. His preference always was for the deprived and against every abuse of power.
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