The Museum of Graphic Illustration of Buenos Aires (ME) has just presented the virtual exhibition "Chicas de Divito, another look", that brings together a selection of works by Guillermo Divito.

This collection of original illustrations is carried out at the Roberto Fontanarrosa Cultural Center in the city of Rosario, under the curatorship of Hugo Maradei and Gonzalo Cadenas; plus the images and videos belonging to Nicolás de Brun.

It should be noted that this exhibition has already had its presence in different venues such as the Eduardo Sívori Museum of Plastic Arts, the Recoleta Cultural Center and the Buenos Aires Humor Museum, at the Book Fair of the City of Santa Fe and in the towns of Mar del Plata, Sea of ​​Ajo, Balcarce, Villa Gesell, Maipú and Necochea.

According to the curators of this exhibition, the works in this show, that have already been successfully exhibited in various places in the country, It is now presented in sectors so that the viewer “appreciates the works of its different periods and separately those that, to our understanding, they also targeted women ".

In this way, "In the first sector of the sample we will see works in which clothing designs are observed, both beach and street and accessories, that we do not know if they were the product of Divito's imagination or of the observation he made in the many trips he made abroad. In addition, you will see the Girls practicing sports in the gym or outdoors, subject that was not usual in those years ".

As detailed by Maradei and Cadenas, “The attention and respect that Divito had for the female sex is reaffirmed with the edition by its editorial of the magazine Chicas, entirely dedicated to women and in competition with the other magazines serving that market, as for you, Stamp or You. Proof of this are the covers and contents of some copies that we also offer you ".

The repercussion of the Girls was so great that it crossed our borders, to the point that in December 1947 the prestigious American magazine Time stated in a note that: "... for a girl living in Buenos Aires, Willy Divito is a more important style authority than Christian Dior ”.

On the other hand, Divito's drawings also reflect “his relationship with men, to whom the Girls generally treated them with a certain disdain and irony, what was not usual in those times, and even when Divito included them in his vignettes, he portrayed them as insignificant, and generally smaller. This is clearly mentioned by two specialists such as Juan Sasturain and Fernando Sendra.

To visit the show, Can be done Click here!