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Antonio
Berni
Berni
by
Adriana Lauria and Enrique Llambías
May 2005
May 2005
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.
1932
Brothels of Pichincha Street, subrepticiously photographed by Berni
Encouraged by journalist and historiographer Rodolfo Puiggrós, who was performing a research on the mafia and white female traffic in Rosario, Berni took photographs in the brothels of Pichincha Street. These illustrated the article published in his town’s newspaper Crónica.
Photography, whether taken straightly by himself or clipped from newspapers and magazines or furnished by graphic archives of several publications, have made, articulated with numerous preliminary drawings, a frequent working method throughout Berni’s artistic career.
In June he exhibited surrealist works in Amigos del Arte of Buenos Aires. In the show were included La muerte acecha en cada esquina 
, Landrú en el hotel, Napoleón III, Susana y el viejo, Tranquilidad de los barrios aristocráticos, among others.
, Landrú en el hotel, Napoleón III, Susana y el viejo, Tranquilidad de los barrios aristocráticos, among others.The response to these works waved from indifference to definitely unfavorable critic. On this occasion José León Pagano criticized his paintings and collages writing in the daily La
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