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Antonio
Berni
by
Adriana Lauria and Enrique Llambías
May 2005
Bibliographic reference of this dossier
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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
 
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Detail of a tapestry by Antonio Berni
Detail of a tapestry by Antonio Berni
 
In Berlin he was given an award at Intergrafik '67.
In Buenos Aires, at Galería Rubbers, he exhibited tapestries performed at the textile mill Río de la Plata, which operated under his direction since 1966 and worked on patterns by Argentine artists.
The Instituto Di Tella, the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, the Museo de Arte Moderno, the Sociedad Hebraica and some galleries organized, in Buenos Aires, the Semana de Arte Avanzado en la Argentina (Advanced Art Week). In this exhibition complex –in which the minimalist aesthetics would irrupt and prevail–, Berni presented the “espectáculo de estructuras” Ramona en la caverna, an audiovisual setting that fully engaged the space of the exhibition. In a 1971 essay Gérald Gassiot-Talabot wrote that with this work Berni,
“... transformed the Rubbers gallery in Buenos Aires into a cavern  carpeted with effigies of Ramona, bristling with cubic stalactites, scattered with leftovers and inhabited by several monsters: sphinx with pustule ironclad body, mechanic tubular
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