The National Museum of Fine Arts presents a series of actions, activities, virtual talks and exhibitions to celebrate the centenary of the birth of the great Argentine artist León Ferrari (1920-2020).

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.

"Leon Ferrari. Recurrences ”accounts for the formal searches, and the concerns and obsessions that spanned more than half a century of the artist's prolific production. The forms of violence, the abuses of power, The injustices, the intolerance of religions and the tragedy of war are some of the axes that Ferrari approached in his works and writings with grace, lucidity and self-confidence, and that will be present in this exhibition.

In the entrance hall of the Fine Arts, and as a symbol of the celebrations, his most emblematic work was mounted, "Western and Christian civilization", made by Ferrari in 1965, for what, even with the Museum closed to visitors, can be observed during these months from public space. 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 the Fine Arts where it will occupy a central place in the anthological exhibition of 2022.

Simultaneously, in the Web page (bellasartes.gob.ar) and on the institution's social networks, The Museum will share information about León Ferrari in a dynamic and progressive way: works, writings, audiovisual material and testimonials from friends, colleagues, curators and other personalities that evoke and remember him.

While, on the first floor of the Museum, there will be a room dedicated to presenting a set of Ferrari works belonging to our collection - donated by the artist and by the Augusto y León Ferrari Arte y Acervo Foundation -, that will account for your multiple searches and will serve as a prologue to the sample of 2022.

Also as part of this celebration, a series of public activities and educational programs will be developed around the figure of León Ferrari that will be announced in due course.