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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.
 
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Catalog of Galería Velázquez
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Galería Velázquez
 
He concluded the panels Apocalipsis and La Crucifixión, which he would donate to the chapel of the Instituto San Luis Gonzaga in Las Heras. They had demanded three years time and more than forty preparatory works, among which could be counted paintings dated in 1980, like Cristo en el departamento, Magdalena and San Sebastián, the latter based on a study for Obrero muerto, painted in 1949.
At Sociedad de Distribuidores de Diarios, Revistas y Afines he exhibited sketches for Apocalipsis. At Galería Velázquez, Apocalipsis and La Crucifixión before their definitive emplacement, together with related works like Cristo en el garage. Contemporary settings and characters updated these compositions of an iconography consecrated by tradition. Some works of this series, such as Enigma doloroso, made particularly evident the allusion to the violence deployed by the military dictatorship since 1976.
At Los zwaternes de la siesta in Galería del Buen Ayre, Berni presented eleven original temperas which illustrated a book of
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