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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.
1951
Among the portrayed, Berni, Spilimbergo, Castagnino, Alonso. Santiago del Estero, 1954
He was dismissed as a member of the teaching staff at the Escuela de Bellas Artes Manuel Belgrano.
He met at the thermal baths of Río Hondo, Santiago del Estero, with Spilimbergo, who was director of the Instituto Superior de Bellas Artes at the Universidad de Tucumán since 1948. From then on, Berni’s trips to Santiago del Estero would be frequent.
Forma, the SAAP’s magazine, issued his article “De lo abstracto a lo real”.
He painted a tempera which he also entitled Manifestación, where a group of humble people holds a canvas featuring on it the well known Picassian dove, the one which had served as emblema of the 1949 World Congress for Peace, summoned by comunism in Paris.
With this work Berni took part in Pinturas y esculturas de diez artistas argentinos, organized at the gallery of the Sociedad de Artistas Plásticos. Adducing ideological divergences, Butler, Basaldúa, Jorge Larco and Juana Lumermann withdrew their
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