Jorge Roiger
(Buenos Aires, 1934)
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Informalism in Argentina
Jorge Roiger
 
He starts exhibiting his photographs in 1957. Two years later he is selected to take part in the 3º Salón Internacional de Nantes (France) and the 1er Salón Internacional de La Coruña (Spain). In 1959 he joins the Movimiento Informalista and presents his photographs at their second exhibition. In 1961 he takes part in the Salón de la Asociación Arte Nuevo. He also exhibits at the Salas Nacionales de Exposición y en el Salón de Arte Nuevo, at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires. That year he is invited to vie for the Premio Ver y Estimar Award at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes and at the Asociación Arte Nuevo, at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires. He joins the Arte Destructivo group. He exhibits El hombre antes del hombre (The man before the man) organized by the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires.
In August, 1962 he exhibits his paintings at the Antígona Gallery, with a presentation in form of a letter by Kenneth Kemble. In 1963 he is a finalist for the Premio Ver y Estimar Award, at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. In 1968 he organizes an individual painting exhibition at the Lirolay Gallery. He also exhibits individually at the Bonanni Gallery, 1969; holds a retrospective exhibit of his work of the last fifteen years at the Lirolay Gallery in 1975; Signo Gallery 1976 and 1977; Oliver Gallery, 1979; and Silvia Rodríguez Gallery, 1984 and 1987.