Personage, 1964

Between 26 August and 9 September, he holds his first solo exhibition of paintings in Galería Riobóo-Nueva, Buenos Aires. He displays nine oil large-format paintings produced between 1963 and 1964. These works can be included in the new figurativism, which was, at the time, a widespread tendency among young painters. Among the exhibited works are Brighella, Dialogue of the Deaf, Duty, The Submissive One, No Trespassing, Sylvester 2, Molloy, and two canvases titled Personage (97 x 130 y 150 x 150 cm).

Elba Pérez points out that in the paintings displayed in this exhibition, most of them destroyed by their author years later, one could see the repertoire of the neo-figurative: “[...] radical distortion of forms, freest figurativism, ample gestures, arbitrary colouration. But there were also new patterns appearing that he would develop later: impugnation of the illusionist perspective, recurrences of gagged mouths, staircases leading nowhere”.

The artist works by now with cut-outs in which volumes and reliefs stand in succession, combined with the images created