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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.
1976
Marta Minujin, Sabato,
Berni and Federico Peralta Ramos in Creencias y supersiticiones de siempre
Berni and Federico Peralta Ramos in Creencias y supersiticiones de siempre
He performed an individual exhibition at Imagen Galería de Arte of Buenos Aires, which also published Berni. Palabra e Imagen by José Viñals, a long interview where the artist recalls his life and work.
He displayed different episodes in the life of Ramona Montiel: Ramona en el Café-concert, El examen, El casamiento, La adivina, all collages of important relief that include gradually more corporeal objects. On the other hand, he continued with ironic reflections about the behavior of contemporary society through paintings like Los hippies and Aeropuerto.
Together with Federico Peralta Ramos he performed the show Creencias y supersticiones de siempre at Galería Carmen Waugh, where he exhibited the setting La difunta Correa, consisting of a painting-assembly with the image of the deceased woman at the moment of the miracle and the offerings of the devotees around her.
This work was preceded by La difuntita Correa (The little deceased woman, 1975, oil and collage on burlap), where the
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