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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
Landscapes: Roads
 
Atardecer en el camino, c. 1975
Camino bajo el cielo gris, 1975
Camino bajo los faros, 1975
Nothing more categorical to make evident the existential loneliness than a long solitary road. In these assemblings Berni shares with the observer a road movie vision, in which only the route and some isolated traffic signal refer to a human presence. Due to their deprivement of anecdote, in these landscapes it may be seen better perhaps than in any other work the wise use of extrapictorial materials. The argent hues of a silvery plate representing a stormy sky, the coarseness of burlap precisely reflecting the aridity of the earth, the shining plastic suggesting the shimmering of light in the horizon’s mirages, the branches and roots describing the tortuousness of wild vegetation, and the canvas, which reveals the dazzling white of a salt pit. All of these are elections made by a sharp painter’s eye.
 
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