Juanito Laguna

At Galería Peuser he exhibited some surrealist works (1931/1932) and others recently produced. Relating both stages in the catalog’s text he stated, “Recent landscapes have something of surrealism, of that surrealism which today is uncorked as a mature wine, some to taste it and others to better new vintages”.

Among other individual exhibitions he presented, at Galería Witcomb, Berni en el tema de Juanito Laguna. There, large size compositions and collages develop different aspects in the saga of the shantytown boy. In La conspiración del mundo de Juanito Laguna trastorna el sueño de los injustos, a nightmare universe gives reason to the use of neo-figurative solutions. In the collages (Portrait of Juanito Laguna, El cosmonauta saluda a Juanito a su paso sobre el bañado de Flores, Juanito Laguna aprende a leer, etc.), the employment of waste stuff acquires formal and conceptual significance.

Such is the case of Juanito Laguna lleva la comida a su padre, peón metalúrgico, where a tiny Juanito disappears in the