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La Boca
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by
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.
1940
In Impulso Association
Fortunato Lacámera
Vista del Riachuelo (tríptico), c. 1940
Vista del Riachuelo (tríptico), c. 1940
Fortunato Lacámera founds the association of Gente de Artes y Letras Impulso, which is first housed at the artist’s atelier. Vicente Vento, José Luis Menghi and José Desiderio Rosso immediately join him in this venture. Miguel Carlos Victorica is one of the first official members. Later on, Impulso moves to 355 Lamadrid St. In its show rooms we find exhibits of Pettoruti, Victorica, Centurión, Butler, Forner, Castagnino, Spilimbergo and Lucio Fontana, among others. Lacámera directs the institution until his death, in 1951.
The new Nicolás Avellaneda Bridge is inaugurated, an impressive construction of steel and cement considered an important work of engineering of its kind. Located just a few meters from the old bridge, it becomes one of the most important access routes to Capital.
