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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.
1951
Fortunato Lacámera
Autorretrato, c. 1950
Autorretrato, c. 1950
Fortunato Lacámera dies in Buenos Aires. The Asociación Impulso organizes the first post-mortem exhibit of his work. The following year, at the Iris Theater of La Boca, a commemorative plaque is placed in his name.
Menghi starts a series of flower motives that will continue until his death in 1985.
