The National Museum of Fine Arts opened to the public exposure “Norah Borges. A woman at the forefront”, curated by Sergio Alberto Baur specialist, which brings together more than 200 paintings, drawings, engravings and objects among documents, manuscripts, printed and photographs of the artist Norah Borges Argentina (1901-1998).

“From the Museum we wanted to dedicate a sample Norah Borges, considering that this meant a historical debt, because the artist had never had a solo exhibition at the first national museum”, He explained the director of the Fine Arts, Andrés Duprat. “This is in the context of our will to present women artists, somehow, They have been circumvented in the history of art. Thus, We celebrate the opening of this monographic exhibition curated by Norah Borges Sergio Baur”, he added.

“Norah Borges has traveled the twentieth century in a silent way and discreet, as their way of being. He shared his youth and formative years with his brother, Jorge Luis Borges, with whom he maintained a permanent cultural dialogue between literature and visual arts”, said Duprat.

The sample, which analyzes the entire trajectory of Norah Borges through works from different eras, from 28 public and private collections, It proposes to link the worlds that the artist lived from their training, and his outstanding work as an illustrator for the Spanish and Argentina forefront. staff and bibliographic documentation that lie at the scene of the years also exhibits 1920 Y 1930.

The opening of the exhibition, They attended the widow of Jorge Luis Borges, Maria Kodama; President of Friends of the Fine Arts, July Crivelli, as well as artists, Museum Directors, collectors, diplomats and references of the world of culture.

Meanwhile, Baur, historian and diplomat, he commented: “Norah Borges used to say that the pictures should give happiness. And that phrase really did a great effect on me, because having achieved this sample with the impeccable team of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, let me share that feeling. Put in the work of Norah dialogue with all its dimensions is for me an aspiration and a dream at the same time”.

“I think this shows added the curador- invites us to reflect on the role of women artists in the twentieth century. For Norah is absolutely emblematic, because it is that of an artist with extensive vocation, committed in many ways”.

The artistic development of Sister Norah Borges of the famous writer and wife of the critic and Spanish poet Guillermo de Torre, with its own language through the forms of modernism. Throughout the twentieth century, in contact with the literary life of his time, He illustrated the first books of writers like Borges, Victoria and Silvina Ocampo, Julio Cortazar, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Eduardo Mallea, Ricardo Molinari, Concha Méndez Cuesta, Carmen Conde,

Rafael Alberti, and Chilean Luis Enrique Delano and Humberto Díaz Casanueva. Also, as it is seen in sala provided illustrations for magazines Spanish art “Greece”, “Ultra” Y “Baleares”, and he was collaborating prominent Argentine publications “Prism”, “Bow”, “Martin Fierro” Y “ratings”, among other.

The museum script of the exhibition is based on the texts of those contemporaries who reflected from criticism and poetry on the work of Norah Borges. Eleven cores are organized the tour “Childhood”, “Norah, one artist ultraísta”, “Norah Borges at the forefront” To the II, “Cartografías”, “And fifth trip to Spain”, “Norah illustrator”, “Spaniards of three worlds”, “Painting and drawing rooms”, “Norah by Jorge Luis Borges” Y “Manuel Pinedo: Norah Borges art criticism in the Annals of Buenos Aires”.

“Norah Borges. A woman at the forefront” It will run until March 1st 2020 in the Pavilion of temporary exhibitions of the Museum. The Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, which it depends on the Ministry of Culture of the Nation, and it has the support of the Association of Friends, doors open Tuesday through Friday, of 11 a 20, and on Saturdays and Sundays, of 10 a 20 (Monday: closed), one of. El Libertador 1473, Buenos aires city.

Argentine or resident in the country public can tour the museum with free admission every day. For foreign visitors, general admission to the Fine Arts has a value of $200 (Tuesday 11 a 20, and from Wednesday to Sunday, of 18.45 a 20: free).