The exhibition “Spilimbergo artist, work on paper, 1918-1964”, an itinerary that runs nearly 50 years of production of this master of Argentine art of the twentieth century, through more than 60 works, as well as photographs, letters and personal documents, It opens on Thursday 8 July at 19 in the Centro Cultural Borges.

For more than 12 years that an exhibition of this great artist has not been held in the city of Buenos Aires, this time dedicated to his works on paper, drawings in different techniques, like pencil, ink, cinder, pastel, as well as engravings and monocopies, where works never before exhibited stand out.

“The drawings gathered here were not sketches of something bigger but were works in themselves. They were called 'painted drawings'’ For its quality. He was a great cartoonist from the beginning. He became a drawing teacher in half the time that the others. for his virtuosity, their teachers, like Pío Collivadino or Ernesto de la Cárcova, they brought it forward of the year”, tells the grandson of the artist, Leonardo Enea Spilimbergo, who was in charge of selecting the material and curating the exhibition.

This exhibition is proposed, through seven thematic nuclei, review some of the most outstanding moments in the career of this artist who was born in Buenos Aires in 1896 and died in Unquillo in 1964, attended André Lothe's workshop in Paris, and painted in 1933 the mural “plastic exercise”, together with the Mexican David Alfaro Siqueiros, the Argentines Antonio Berni, Juan Carlos Castagnino and the Uruguayan Enrique Lazaro, currently on display at the Casa Rosada Museum (former Bicentennial Museum).

You can visit the exhibition in the room 21 of the Borges Cultural Center, Viamonte 555 and Saint Martin, Monday to Saturday from 10 a 21 and on Sundays and holidays 12 a 21.