Celebrating the centenary of the birth of León Ferrari (Buenos Aires, 3 September 1920-25 July 2013), the National Museum of Fine Arts will share, since Tuesday 1 of September, audiovisual material with testimonials, a documentary and digital publications, among other actions dedicated to evoke the life and work of the Argentine artist.

Noah Jitrik, Silvio Rodriguez, Ticio Escobar, Tamara Stuby, Nora Hochbaum and Fabián Lebenglik will be some of the first to share their memories of Ferrari in audiovisual testimonies that can be seen on the Museum's website (www.bellasartes.gob.ar), on the institutional YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/MNBAdigital) and on their social networks (Facebook, Instagram y Twitter). For the next few weeks, more than thirty voices from renowned cultural figures will be added –Luis Felipé Noé, Diana Dowek, Néstor García Canclini, Regina Silveira, Luis Camnitzer, Eduardo Grüner, among many others - who knew intimacy, the work and thought of the great artist.

Also from Tuesday 1, can be viewed for free, on the Museum's YouTube channel or website, the film about León Ferrari "Civilización" (2012), directed by Rubén Guzmán. This documentary covers the artist's ideas and his production through unpublished archive material, exclusive interviews and the record of Ferrari making an original work especially for this film.

The anthological exhibition “León Ferrari. Recurrences ", curated by Cecilia Rabossi and Andrés Duprat scheduled for April 2020, it had to be postponed due to the global emergency produced by the Covid-19 pandemic and will open the season 2022 of the National Museum of Fine Arts.

In the entrance hall to the Fine Arts, Ferrari's emblematic piece "Western and Christian Civilization" is exhibited, made in 1965, which can be seen from the public space and will remain on display until early November. In 2021, This piece will be part of an exhibition that will tour three important museums in Europe - the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, from Madrid; el Van Abbemuseum, the Eindhoven; and the Pompidou Center, from Paris-, and then return to Fine Arts, where it will occupy a central place in the anthological exhibition of 2022.

On the Museum website, also, soon the series "We did not know" will be shared for download, in which Ferrari compiled articles that the newspapers of 1976 published about the first period of repression unleashed by the military junta. It is the news that managed to pass the sieve of censorship, or that they allowed themselves to pass as messengers of terror with information on the first victims of State terrorism, after the blow of 24 March 1976. Other published and unpublished texts by the artist will also be published on the Museum's website and social networks..

further, The Bellas Artes prepares a set of Ferrari works belonging to our collection –doned by the artist and by the Augusto y León Ferrari Arte y Acervo Foundation–, which will be exhibited on the first floor as part of the permanent script. This showroom, designed for when the Museum reopens to the public, will function as an advance to the exhibition “León Ferrari. Recurrences ", scheduled to 2022.