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Florencia Battiti and Cintia Mezza
August 2006
August 2006
We are about to venture into the fascinating world of the famed La Boca artists. This dossier reviews the gravitations of the modernization process of Argentine art throughout the last one hundred years, and the role that its growing cultural institutions played along the way. This investigative work has been authored by Florencia Battiti, and assisted by Cintia Mezza.
1892
Pedro de Mendoza. As seen from the corner of Almirante Brown St.
El Bohemio (The Bohemian),appears in the month of June, a Boquense newspaper with a Mazzinian spirit directed by Atilio Massone, who had left Italy due to his republican ideas. He settled in La Boca in 1889. El Bohemio changes its name twice: in 1893 it becomes El faro del Riachuelo (The lighthouse of the Riachuelo) and in 1897 El Riachuelo.
Cristóforo Colombo (Christopher Columbus),appears on November 27, a bi-lingual publication (Italian-Spanish), directed by Father Esteban Bourlot. It is a weekly magazine of religious and literary content which is printed in the San Juan Evangelista Church. Bartolomé Peri, member of one of the most traditional catholic families in La Boca, is its administrator.
A group of experienced and amateur artists create La Colmena Artística (The Artistic Hive). According to José León Pagano and Eduardo Schiaffino, Decoroso Bonifanti –a contemporary of Alfredo Lazzari– is one of its members, among mostly Spanish and Italian immigrants.
